I hope she gets a partner. Her brother ??? ( ha ha) I always wondered why she wasn’t doing pairs. She has the right qualities and skills, size to do it. She landed a good looking throw! Whoot!Gosh... Gabby would be so great at pairs. She is fierce, athletic and fearless.
That throw is impeccable. Tristan is in a good partnership so we will see how he does evolve so I am not hoping they team up just that Gabby considers prolonging her career into her 30s doing pairsShe certainly has role models she can look up to.
Also, the best part of this post is not the throw itself but the caption : getting throw into next season.
I am all here for that.
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She is not looking for a pairs partner though.
Oh, boo.
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I agree she would be good but at the same time, she's been injured so many times and pairs is such a rough discipline for the women... I am okay if she doesn't get thrown and twisted on a daily basis.
Good point
Maddie is her own worse enemy. I think she puts too much pressure on herself. Think she was so disappointed with her short program score in the team event that she wanted to be perfect in the individual event, and therefore pushed herself too hard. And therefore one of her worse shorts. Even at worlds last year we saw the judges are willing to reward her when she skates well. Therefore she ended up skating in the final group for the free. But in the free I think she was concentrating too much on staying in the top ten instead of just going out and doing what she could. When her free score came up all she was focused on was if she was in the top 10.
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I agree, I begin to think that she needs to stop focusing the top 10 and just do her best and enjoy the moment.
Much like at her first world championships, she wasn't focused on the top 10 and was just happy with her moment, and that's where she shines and was wonderful!
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Good analysis but in the end whatever the reason Maddie has had lots of chances and has not got the job done. This is probably her last chance to get top ten and even without Alysa, Loena, Bradie, Kimmy it will still not be easy. I guess I shouldn't say her last chance because who knows if she will stick around. The competition is not that tough in Canada though Kwan will be eligible. I wonder what is Gabby Daleman's goals?
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French CBC article on Piper and Paul
ici.radio-canada.ca
They are not announcing retirement. They will compete at Worlds and then, go to Stars on Ice... and then, they will talk about next season, if there is a next one.. but for now, they just want to skate for their fans.
They will also always be involved in the skating world, so whether it is as competitors or show skaters or whatever, they want to be skaters. So it's not a virtue-moir deal here where they would quit/split or stop skating shows etc.. they want to keep going one way or another.
Mondiaux patinage artistique : Piper Gilles et Paul Poirier
Les médaillés olympiques vont participer aux Championnats du monde de patinage artistique qui se déroulent à Prague en Tchéquie 24 au 29 mars prochain.
ici.radio-canada.ca
They are not announcing retirement. They will compete at Worlds and then, go to Stars on Ice... and then, they will talk about next season, if there is a next one.. but for now, they just want to skate for their fans.
They will also always be involved in the skating world, so whether it is as competitors or show skaters or whatever, they want to be skaters. So it's not a virtue-moir deal here where they would quit/split or stop skating shows etc.. they want to keep going one way or another.
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I just finished reading this on the English CBC sports site before moving on to GS in my bookmarks list. I didn't know how to post it here, though. But it's there in English for those who don't read French.French CBC article on Piper and Paul
Mondiaux patinage artistique : Piper Gilles et Paul Poirier
Les médaillés olympiques vont participer aux Championnats du monde de patinage artistique qui se déroulent à Prague en Tchéquie 24 au 29 mars prochain.
They are not announcing retirement. They will compete at Worlds and then, go to Stars on Ice... and then, they will talk about next season, if there is a next one.. but for now, they just want to skate for their fans.
They will also always be involved in the skating world, so whether it is as competitors or show skaters or whatever, they want to be skaters. So it's not a virtue-moir deal here where they would quit/split or stop skating shows etc.. they want to keep going one way or another.
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I think it's this one:
I clicked on the link, and it worked.
I clicked on the link, and it worked.
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thanks... a bit of the same... different journalist... so less talk about the future and more about the medal.
Robert Brodie has his own Piper/Paul article, with comments from Kurt Browning for something else other than what they said on their conference call.
rwbrodiewrites.substack.com
Worlds 2026: 'A celebration of our skating'
Maybe it'll be their last dance, or maybe not. But Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier want to 'stay present' and savour their time on the ice in Prague
rwbrodiewrites.substack.com
And time for Gogo to get a pre-Worlds article from Beverley Smith.
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Gogolev: Finding his Spot in the Sun - Bev Smith Writes
Suddenly, Stephen Gogolev was just there. Tall, lanky, a master of understatement, a greater master of quick rotation, Gogolev emerged during the Olympic season like a bursting bud that had been buried for a long demoralizing winter. He’ll be going to his first world championship in Prague next...
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Time for Beverley Smith to write about Pereira/Michaud, I guess Maddie will be next.
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Pairs: the Astronomical Clock is Ticking - Bev Smith Writes
Timing seems to be everything. The only times in history that the world figure skating championships have previously been held in beautiful, historic Prague, Canadian pairs and men’s skaters have excelled. Make that four world gold medals at two events, separated by 31 years: 1962 and 1993. It’s...
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Good article - although there were so many typos and errors throughout. I think I counted six or seven, and I wasn't really paying attention. Is it really that hard to run an article through AI or have an editor double check?And time for Gogo to get a pre-Worlds article from Beverley Smith.
Gogolev: Finding his Spot in the Sun - Bev Smith Writes
Suddenly, Stephen Gogolev was just there. Tall, lanky, a master of understatement, a greater master of quick rotation, Gogolev emerged during the Olympic season like a bursting bud that had been buried for a long demoralizing winter. He’ll be going to his first world championship in Prague next...
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I hope she is considering continuing because I really enjoy her skating
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Having freelanced part-time as a manuscript editor during my years as a librarian, I can tell you that newspaper copy editors are no more. The publishing world is shrinking in number and types of employees. Supposedly the author's spellchecking etc does that work, but it doesn't. For something book-length, the author is supposed to hire and pay the few remaining freelancers (who will see the errors the author doesn't because the author sees the words that are supposed to be there, not what's actually on the screen). But writers don't want to share the money, and for a daily blog there isn't time for hiring out. AI hasn't got there yet, as evidenced by the number of hilarious mistakes in the captions for videos and films where the program has misheard what the speaker actually said. There's a new freelance occupation called data annotation that is supposed to be teaching AI how to edit, but the field is so far all new and experimental. In the meanwhile, literate readers just have to roll their eyes a lot. 
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I was especially happy to read that Patrick won silver in 2018
. that would give him 1 gold and 3 silver medals at the games Similar threads
