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Keegan Messing returns to competitive skating

yuumagical said:
Does he just want to do a legal backflip in competition? 🤣

Honestly, I would not be surprised if Skate Canada had encouraged him to unretire.

I would have been happy had he stayed retired. Although I am uncertain if this is true or not, there was a rumor on Twitter about him committing sexual assault, and this colors my current opinion of him in a negative way.
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I reminded him backflips were legal now. I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself. Now if Gracie and Kait and Jean Luc come back my skating fandom life will be complete.

I'm sitting here crying y'all.
 
It says something about the sad state of Canadian and to be honest NA men's skating. Didn't miss him and don't like the suss timing, but I guess Canada needs something and if Alysa could do it, if the Shibs could do it, if Jason could keep on keeping on at it...

But I do like Jackie Wong gleefully taking the mickey (well, someone had to think of it!)
 
TallyT said:
It says something about the sad state of Canadian and to be honest NA men's skating. Didn't miss him and don't like the suss timing, but I guess Canada needs something and if Alysa could do it, if the Shibs could do it, if Jason could keep on keeping on at it...

But I do like Jackie Wong gleefully taking the mickey (well, someone had to think of it!)
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That's mean of Jackie. Wouldn't expect it of him.
 
moonvine said:
Can't he use the returning skater clause that Gracie did?
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He would have needed to do so before all the assignments were allocated. His 7th place finish at his last World championships would have given him 2 GP spots under the returning skater rule, but he needed to have said that he was returning and wanted to participate in the GP series. The ISU cannot now take away spots which were given to other skaters for this year's GP.
 
I remember going to 2023 four continents partly to see Keegan skate. I don't even really follow mens skating that much but he was always a fun skater. I don't know if his tech content will be all there but it will interesting to follow his journey this season and see if he can still compete with Roman and Stephen. If he does beat them, then he will earn his spot. I'm curious if they will sub out a spot for him at Skate Canada. I can't imagine they would do that to anyone at this point but who knows.
 
FlossieH said:
He would have needed to do so before all the assignments were allocated. His 7th place finish at his last World championships would have given him 2 GP spots under the returning skater rule, but he needed to have said that he was returning and wanted to participate in the GP series. The ISU cannot now take away spots which were given to other skaters for this year's GP.
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I believe the only way he could be added to a GP would be if he now competed in and won a Challenger; a win there would add him to the eligible substitutes list. (Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.)
 
Seven Sisters said:
I believe the only way he could be added to a GP would be if he now competed in and won a Challenger; a win there would add him to the eligible substitutes list. (Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.)
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Digging in my pocket for loose change to watch Challengers.
 
Forgot, Nobunari also unretired for a couple of years, didn't he? But Japan is a very different arena, don't think Nobu ever expected to be handed international spots.
Seven Sisters said:
I believe the only way he could be added to a GP would be if he now competed in and won a Challenger; a win there would add him to the eligible substitutes list. (Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.)
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And how far up the substitutes would a Challenger get him? Presumably he has his eye on Worlds instead and then an Olympic berth.
 
TallyT said:
And how far up the substitutes would a Challenger get him? Presumably he has his eye on Worlds instead and then an Olympic berth.
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That would depend on his score. A win with a score of 235.71 or more would take him to the top of the list (and I think a podium with that score would as well - as long as no-one on the replacement list placed above him on the podium). Edit: However, he needs to achieve the domestic benchmark before he is eligible to be sent to a Challenger. Skate Canada have been quite strict about this with others and I hope, in the interests of fairness, that the same standards would apply to Keegan.
 
FlossieH said:
That would depend on his score. A win with a score of 235.71 or more would take him to the top of the list (and I think a podium with that score would as well - as long as no-one on the replacement list placed above him on the podium). Edit: However, he needs to achieve the domestic benchmark before he is eligible to be sent to a Challenger. Skate Canada have been quite strict about this with others and I hope, in the interests of fairness, that the same standards would apply to Keegan.
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Is there a domestic competition in which he can skate?
 
moonvine said:
I reminded him backflips were legal now. I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself. Now if Gracie and Kait and Jean Luc come back my skating fandom life will be complete.

I'm sitting here crying y'all.
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I'm certain he'll do a backflip at some point in his programs this season. :)
 
moonvine said:
Is there a domestic competition in which he can skate?
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He missed the ones last week. I think the next competition which could be counted is the Souvenir Georges-Ethier in September or the Ontario sectional series in October. I imagine that if he was actually wanting GP spots, he would have come back earlier. He will be aware of Skate Canada's selection criteria and could have come back for last week's Summer sectional series if he wanted to.
 
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