Thanks for sharing. I was wondering how Bryce was doing. A little sad that he decided to scale back his rehabilitation, but I guess with no partner there wasn’t really any reason to push it. I hope he doesn’t give up entirely and will look for someone new to skate with once his knee is fully healed. In the meantime – best of luck to him with his new coaching gig!
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Well, just how successful Fedor will be with that is yet to be seen!
Also, by 'retiring', finding an overseas partner won't be so bad, because he won't have competed for Canada for 2+ years.
Maybe that's part of the plan?
Caitlin is training at Scott Moir’s rink now, isn't she? Oh my, now wouldn’t that be interesting……. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like Bryce is ready for any try outs at the moment: Learning from an OlympianCaitlyn just moved to Michigan, which is only a "short" four-hour drive.
With his knee still about seven months away from being fully healed, Davison said there are some temporary limits as to what he can demonstrate on the ice.
“I’m not supposed to jump at all,” he said.
Lift class with Bryce Davison
4 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
But if she still hasn’t found a partner by the new year, who knows? He’s said that he would only be interested in continuing if he could find someone special to skate with. I think Caitlin qualifies as special. Or maybe he’ll just train a suitable partner
Davison said he has taken steps to look for a new partner, but hasn’t really pushed his body to do all the jumps and spins he could do before because he is just halfway through the recovery phase. If he were still skating with Dubé, he might have tried to accelerate the healing process.
“I talked to a few people in the skating world that had ideas for partners and a couple of them could have been pretty good, but things just never came together. The opportunities weren’t really there for me at the point where I was in my healing.”
I’m a bit baffled as to why Skate Canada seems so intent on declaring him retired. :confused2: You’d think they’d do everything they could to get one of their elite skaters back into competition.Davison said he is planning on continuing to work on his coaching certification, moving up to levels II and III as time goes on.
But that may have to wait for another shot at as part of a pairs team. But then again, maybe not.
“If something comes along in the winter and spring next year. We’ll see.”