I keep saying these posts appearing and disappearing.. not sure whyAsher announced on That Figure Skating Show that Deanna has her citizenship!!
He may mean that she passed the test, and hasn't been sworn in yet. I'll edit in the time-stamped link after I go back and find it.
ADDED: It was Brenda, not Asher who made The big announcement
Because of the swim meet practice going on in the background? She's reporting on some big swim meet in Europe (with lots of Canadian swimmers) for the CBC.I keep saying these posts appearing and disappearing.. not sure why
but honestly, it was hard to focus on Brenda during that clip...
there is nothing like a red speedo
The body language was not very good after skating Maybe I am being negative but I can’t see this working out (partnership)
I'd say, let's wait until Deanna herself posts something. If anyone gets to announce that she's finally a Canadian citizen, it should be her. Everything else is not fair.I keep saying these posts appearing and disappearing.. not sure why
It doesn't work like this though. Do you think Deanna will announce it ? Perhaps she will... perhaps she will not.
It must be frustrating as she did have a good partnership with Benjamin, at least on the ice... No idea why they split... and I don't want to go there.
I think she knows there are a lot of people who have wanted this for her for a while now, so she might want to do this herself.It doesn't work like this though. Do you think Deanna will announce it ? Perhaps she will... perhaps she will not.
Cats out of the bag but maybe she wants to say something after the actual ceremony which is more official….
Perhaps…..I was a bit curious what they would look like. She started out better with Ben and then fell off.
Was she injured when she was still with Ben -- possibly a concussion?
She had a lingering foot injury, that was the reason given for the withdrawal from Nationals last season (from Robert Brodie):
Thank you! I'm glad to know it wasn't a concussion. Sorry I was confusing that with someone else. I keep rooting for her whenever I see her and her partner listed in competitions. I thought she and Ben showed a lot of promise, and I enjoyed their skating. I hope that things improve in her new partnership.
Or after she gets her Canadian passport. I've seen social media posts of skaters proudly holding up their first passport for a newly-aquired citizenship. I think the passport is her key to competing at the Olympics.
Well with the Canada Post strike, passports are delayed... So it may take a while
When you apply for a passport, you can arrange to pick it up instead of having it mailed (currently for a fee of $20). The pickup has to be done at a passport office (or maybe some select Service Canada locations???), which are in major cities (and some not so major, like Kelowna).
And I've read that a large batch of passports were mailed to the Service Canada office here in Richmond the day before the strike began, to be picked up, and are now sitting who-knows-where between Ottawa and here. Some were renewed ones for people who needed them to travel at Christmas, like my cross-hall neighbour who was going to visit his son and family in Japan for the holidays. He hasn't travelled since before his wife got sick and they stopped going on cruises. She died last summer and he decided to renew his passport and start travelling again. There are a lot of stories like his going around. Do they ever issue replacements of lost ones, if it were someone's new first one? If an Olympic athlete like Deanna had hers lost in a mail backlog, would they print up a new one for her? (I haven't had a passport myself for years, so I'm pretty hazy on the procedures.)
