I pray after Milan that it will be mostly a new group of teams i mean some of these teams will be working on going to their 3rd or even 4th Olympics in 2026. If Chock and Bates stick around Evan Bates will be going to his 5th Olympics i mean c'mon now. I guess you have to hand it to him if he manages to outlast everyone and finally win a Ice Dance Olympic medal but i'm ready for younger teams to take over for good. Look how exciting it was when D/W and V/M came up and rose quickly against the veterans and took over.Agree on all fronts. I keep forgetting about Spain but at the same time, we could say the same about Japan... the reality is that if one team cannot place in top ten, then should they have two teams ? Perhaps. The maths sometimes just don't work out.. but in general, it does
If P/C come back, other than the Italians skating at home games, I could see a bunch of senior teams call it a career... including Chock and Bates, Piper and Paul and FBS. With Hawayek-Baker also dealing with concussions complications... The worlds following the Olympics could be a brand new crop... I would suspect P/C and the Italians may not go to worlds that year ... So who is left ? Fear Gibson, LaLa, the younger American teams, the Czech, Lopareva-Brissaud... it will be very interesting for sure.
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That gave me a flashback to the 1993 Canadian championships when Bourne and Kraatz came straight from winning Jr Canadians the year before to winning the senior event over teams that had been inching their way up the ladder there for years. Johnny Esaw got so excited doing the commentating I thought he was going to swallow his microphone.
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I thought he did swallow his microphone. Don't tell me he did not !That gave me a flashback to the 1993 Canadian championships when Bourne and Kraatz came straight from winning Jr Canadians the year before to winning the senior event over teams that had been inching their way up the ladder there for years. Johnny Esaw got so excited doing the commentating I thought he was going to swallow his microphone.
So Canadian nationals is looking pretty darn good when compared to American nationals. Dance and pairs were much stronger from top to bottom. (It's always irked me the moaning and judgment about how terrible it was, when that wasn't how I felt watching it at all).
I wouldn't say looking good considering the lighting issues with the stream, lol. I don't get what happened there, they didn't have the lighting issues with Challenge that they did with Nationals.
But yeah, the moaning and judgment irked me too. I can't say if the overall quality for dance/pairs is better on one side (I didn't watch US ice dance), but some of it was too much.
Really Ice Dance was stronger from top to bottom at Canadian Nationals? Umm sure okay. As for Pairs when all but one team from just two years ago is gone that competed at US Nationals what do you expect to see?
Yeah, not so much a comment on the quality of the stream — which the camerawork was pretty good, but the lighting was pretty bad. But the skating performances weren't that terrible — on par with what I usually expect to see at a nationals, with some lower level skaters for whom getting to nationals is the big achievement and some really top level quality skaters who will go on to international competition.
The quality of the teams overall is arguable, but the surprising number of big mistakes in the U.S. dance field made this particular competition weaker, IMO. And my point was not that I thought U.S. nationals was bad, because I don't. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching it. It's that there was so much negative judgment about Canadian nationals that I thought was unfair — I thoroughly enjoyed watching Canadian nationals, too and there were a lot of great and promising things in the skating (though the mens was admittedly a mess).
Now if you want to talk about getting audience in the seats and improving the event planning part of it, I heartily agree that Skate Canada needs to do better for our skaters.
I agree with you about the performances. I'm not a fan of some of the discourse surrounding the skaters, especially since for some of them getting to Nationals is the goal.
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Men were messy at Canadian nationals. At the same time, it is the one discipline in which the previous champion retired... In recent years, many men have retired, gotten injured or sick. The juniors are promising. It will take another cycle with men for rebuilding. We just need to be patient. In the heat of the action, of course a fan can be disappointed. I was hoping for so much more from Conrad. At the same time, there were some very interesting skates from various skaters.
Also, totally agree that for many skaters, making it to nationals is the ultimate goal. It is not cool to be dismissive about lower level skaters considering they have actually reached their goal.
Also, totally agree that for many skaters, making it to nationals is the ultimate goal. It is not cool to be dismissive about lower level skaters considering they have actually reached their goal.
For the Canadian men, some of the issue seems to be just how darn tall they all seem to grow, lol.
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Am so impressed by that team after the weird trip. And despite that, the best free I have seem them compete this season. They really performed the programme instead of letting the fall get in their heads and technically by far the most difficult so lots of chances for mistakes. Okay Kole forever more will be “suave” in my mind (Not Sauve). Hope they stay together. Congrats!
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Now that Valieva's results for Beijing have been disqualified, the next big thing will be how IOC distributes the medals.
If ONLY Valieva's team points are nullified, then there's a reshuffling of the top three. Could happen, as it might be fairer to the clean (as far as we know) Russian team members.
If the entire team is disqualified, Canada moves to the podium. This is my prediction.
The least likely scenario, IMO, is that the gold medal is left vacant and everything else stays as it is.
If ONLY Valieva's team points are nullified, then there's a reshuffling of the top three. Could happen, as it might be fairer to the clean (as far as we know) Russian team members.
If the entire team is disqualified, Canada moves to the podium. This is my prediction.
The least likely scenario, IMO, is that the gold medal is left vacant and everything else stays as it is.
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I think the entire team will be d/q. I don't see how the IOC can make any other decision.
I know that people would be thrilled for Maddie getting a medal because she skated so well at the team event or for Roman because he is such a special skater and that may boost his vision on things... but I would be most happy for Piper and Paul getting an Olympic medal.
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