Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha have ended their partnership

[saine]

Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha (Ice Dance, Canada) have split.

 

[Lutzedge]

Lajoie and Lagha have split

I am in shock. Wishing them the best going forward.
I have created a thread for this in "The Edge."

 

[Ziotic]

I’m in utter shock. WTF is happening in Canadian ice dance.

 

[Jeanie19]

This is sad news.

 

[ramurphy2005]

There's been a lot of speculation about this on Twitter for the past couple of weeks, and lots of wishing for it not to be true, alas here we are.

 

[4everchan]

Nooooo.
My LaLa..... I'm devastated

 

[4everchan]

I'm done. I cannot process these Canadian splits and retirements anymore

 

[4everchan]

So they did the SOI part of the tour they were supposed to do and then were done... sigh.... that doesn't sound good.

 

[4everchan]

oh and when I was reading about this... hail started to fall like crazy here... I guess even the ice gods are angry with this one.

 

[moonvine]

What?????

 

[moonvine]

Nooooo.
My LaLa..... I'm devastated

I’m so sorry. I know your pain.

 

[4everchan]

I’m so sorry. I know your pain.

I'm usually okay.... But not this time

 

[Skater Boy]

I am in shock about the demise of LaLa. I know they have dealt with injuries but the 2026/27 looked super promising for them with Piper and Paul, Madison and Chock and th eItalians liely to retire or at least the italians and Brits seem beatable. Canada is getting killed in pairs and dance. Looks like Deanna is ging back to the US???

 

[dorispulaski]

Are there any hints of their future plans?

 

[peepsquick]

Do we know why they split? Did they feel they were 'going nowhere'? They were really great together. So many excellent teams are quitting, it's depressing!

 

[4everchan]

Are there any hints of their future plans?

no. the only hint was a comment I read that was wishing her luck for 2030... well.. okay. It could mean something or nothing or anything

 

[Princessroja]

What?! This is completely unexpected, and hard to imagine why. They were clearly poised to take over the top Canadian spot and do quite well going forward. I admit I was never a huge LaLa fan, but there's no denying they were a valuable part of ice dance, and the sport will be worse off without them.

 

[4everchan]

At this point, I'd like an interview with MFD, Patch and Romain about the state of IAM teams. Like seriously : what's going on there ? Who is retiring ? Are they trying to create new partnerships ? Do they think that LaLa got fed up getting awful programs and even more awful scores ?

If they couldn't salvage LaLa, it makes sense how they couldn't salvage just about anybody else.

What's really happening ?

I wonder if Skate Canada is starting to raise an eyebrow.

I mean, many teams were not on patinage Québec list... but LaLa were.. so it's a "relatively recent development" following Stars on Ice.

I am not demanding answers just voicing my concerns.

Not. A. Good. Day.

 

[Diana Delafield]

oh and when I was reading about this... hail started to fall like crazy here... I guess even the ice gods are angry with this one.

I must tell that to a skating fan friend who lives in Alesund, Norway. She was posting pictures today on FB of snow falling past her windows. She said snow in mid-April wasn't too rare, but to continue on into May was. I'll tell her it's the ice gods throwing snowballs in a hissy fit.

 

[tinlizzie]

Marjorie has stated that there were differences with their goals, connection and values. I’m not sure what that means except they could not expect to advance in their efforts with the current conditions.