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Haleth said:
Yup! Which was why I hoped I'd hear about just some of the picks soon. And by soon, I mean the picks for Bratislava should be out around a month beforehand (just before or as Minto starts), unless last year was an anomaly.
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Possibly...

Skate Canada seems to enter a large numer of potential subs for these events, and then finalizes on the Skate Canada International Assignments page later.

But it's worth looking at the international assignment rules for this year. All NextGen team members are "long listed" for JPGs. Those with highest priority (top 10 in JPG or Junior Worlds last season) will get first priority.

Select the "Events and International Assignments" tab on this page to get the document that explains Skate Canada's process.

https://skatecanada.ca/nextgen/

The talent management team are currently taking a look at how the NextGen skaters programs are progressing and will continue that through July. If their doing well, they'll get selected.

Last, SC will monitor all Juniors in the summer competitive events. If they do well, they can get one of the later JPG slots even if they're not on the NextGen team.
 
Haleth said:
Yup! Which was why I hoped I'd hear about just some of the picks soon. And by soon, I mean the picks for Bratislava should be out around a month beforehand (just before or as Minto starts), unless last year was an anomaly.
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I think you're right. Iirc, entries being released about a month before the competition wasn't just last year. Deadline is July 20th for submitting entries for Bratislava.
 
Lester said:
I don't think the gap between these two teams is so great, and H/D usually have uninspired material. It would be great if G/P could beat them through hard work alone. They beat the Shibs in a B event one year, so theoretically possible if they are insanely prepared for the start of the season, which they usually are.
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The point spread at Worlds between H/D and G/P was 10.54---hardly close. If you check out the protocols from Worlds and Olympics, you will see why H/D score so much higher than G/P: they nail the technical aspects of the dance. They achieve L4s and get high GOE on their elements.

G/P like to flash high style and pizazz but along the way make small mistakes that cost levels and GOE.
 
as all competitors know, as, of course, they are the ones doing the sport, training day after day, one has to approach each year, each season and each competition with their best material... nobody can tell and who will have the performance of their lives when another team may falter.... I am expecting HD to win SCI... but if Piper and Paul have a great skate, who knows? The pizazz and style they have may be reflected in the new GOE ... who knows???

I am not the kind to take a crystal ball to make predictions based on a previous competition... anything can happen... don't take anything for granted!
 
Ok ...

The boys will be back in training.

Joseph Phan, Roman Sadovsky and Matthew Markell have all posted CEGEP / High School graduation photos this week.

I'm looking forward to seeing them fly this season.
 
TGee said:
Ok ...

The boys will be back in training.

Joseph Phan, Roman Sadovsky and Matthew Markell have all posted CEGEP / High School graduation photos this week.

I'm looking forward to seeing them fly this season.
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Conrad also posted about his High School grad. I believe that none of these boys have gone to Cegep yet. as Phan is only 17... and would have just finished high school.
 
4everchan said:
Conrad also posted about his High School grad. I believe that none of these boys have gone to Cegep yet. as Phan is only 17... and would have just finished high school.
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A bit OT but is CEGEP mandatory in Quebec? And is it generally taken directly following high school? Just curious about how elite skaters might approach that (since many defer higher education until later in their skating careers/following retirement).
 
4everchan said:
Conrad also posted about his High School grad. I believe that none of these boys have gone to Cegep yet. as Phan is only 17... and would have just finished high school.
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You know, I made a mistake. I wrote Roman instead of Conrad...

Roman is Nam's age...
 
Tanager said:
A bit OT but is CEGEP mandatory in Quebec? And is it generally taken directly following high school? Just curious about how elite skaters might approach that (since many defer higher education until later in their skating careers/following retirement).
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pretty much Quebec has an extra "level" of education .. however it all comes to the same in the end.. but for athletes, CEGEP is a bit of an advantage I would say.

Quebec has 11 grades + 2 years CEGEP + 3 YEARS Bachelors = 16

Ontario has 12 grades + 4 years Bachelors = 16


So Quebec athletes have the option to defer higher education earlier on. CEGEP also includes sport/etudes programs which means that athletes can take some classes, having some flexibility.

CEGEP is NOT mandatory for anyone... in theory, children have to be put in school up to the age of 16... but there are plenty of people who drop out before then and it's not like they will face any consequences other than not having an education... the police doesn't come to your house if you drop out at 15... :)
 
TGee said:
My apologies if I've missed an earlier post...

Eric Radford, who is the face of Canadian Olympic Committee's 'Be Yourself' campaign dedicated to the eradication of homophobia in sports, collaborated on a video released earlier this week...

News release

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releas...ease-i-was-born-for-this-video-686544461.html

Short video

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkWWpidHeNe/?taken-by=aplus_creative
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Loved those videos!

Thanks to Eric promoting the Be You campaign I was alerted to Team Canada's You Can Play pop-up store at the Eaton Centre and was able to get several t-shirts for myself and the relatives. They were running out of sizes when I was there, which I take as a good sign. Sadly I wasn't available the day Eric was there, but at least I did make it. Apparently they made $15,000: https://twitter.com/TeamCanadaPR/status/1011332867698380801
 
TGee said:
Although it was recorded some time ago, Global TV in Saskatoon posted this SOI feature interview with Kaetlyn Osmond last evening...

https://globalnews.ca/video/4306417...e-skater-kaetlyn-osmond-performs-in-saskatoon
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Odd timing on their part, but any Kaetlyn interview is a good interview in my books. :dance3:

4everchan said:
pretty much Quebec has an extra "level" of education .. however it all comes to the same in the end.. but for athletes, CEGEP is a bit of an advantage I would say.

Quebec has 11 grades + 2 years CEGEP + 3 YEARS Bachelors = 16

Ontario has 12 grades + 4 years Bachelors = 16


So Quebec athletes have the option to defer higher education earlier on. CEGEP also includes sport/etudes programs which means that athletes can take some classes, having some flexibility.

CEGEP is NOT mandatory for anyone... in theory, children have to be put in school up to the age of 16... but there are plenty of people who drop out before then and it's not like they will face any consequences other than not having an education... the police doesn't come to your house if you drop out at 15... :)
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Thanks for the explanation. Nice to know there is a CEGEP stream that takes into account the schedules of elite athletes! And I do believe it is the same in my province of Ontario re: mandatory education until age 16. But how indeed can that be enforced in any meaningful way?? Just hope that people eventually get the education they need to succeed in life (however that success looks).

Haleth said:
Loved those videos!

Thanks to Eric promoting the Be You campaign I was alerted to Team Canada's You Can Play pop-up store at the Eaton Centre and was able to get several t-shirts for myself and the relatives. They were running out of sizes when I was there, which I take as a good sign. Sadly I wasn't available the day Eric was there, but at least I did make it. Apparently they made $15,000: https://twitter.com/TeamCanadaPR/status/1011332867698380801
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Yay Eric!! Glad to see him being such a great advocate and role model for the LGBTQ+ community in sports. Rock on, Mr. Radford!! :hap10:
 
French-language piece about some Quebec skaters (Seguin/Bilodeau, Soucisse/Firus, Alicia Pineault).

Julianne and Charlie's short program should be...interesting, having looked up the music.

Carolane and Shane are forthright about wanting to be the next great Canadian dance team.
 
4everchan said:
groove is in the heart!!!! woot :)
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More like groove is in the heeeeeaaaart!!

Wheeeeeeee!!! :luv17: :love: :yahoo:
I hope they can really let loose with this one. It's totally one of those "dance like no one's watching" kinda tracks that you go all out for like you're super drunk (even and especially if you're not) :dance3:
 
4everchan said:
pretty much Quebec has an extra "level" of education .. however it all comes to the same in the end.. but for athletes, CEGEP is a bit of an advantage I would say.

Quebec has 11 grades + 2 years CEGEP + 3 YEARS Bachelors = 16

Ontario has 12 grades + 4 years Bachelors = 16


So Quebec athletes have the option to defer higher education earlier on. CEGEP also includes sport/etudes programs which means that athletes can take some classes, having some flexibility.

CEGEP is NOT mandatory for anyone... in theory, children have to be put in school up to the age of 16... but there are plenty of people who drop out before then and it's not like they will face any consequences other than not having an education... the police doesn't come to your house if you drop out at 15... :)
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It's really close to the old "senior matriculation" or normal school or collegiate that the western provinces phased out with grade 13 in the 1970s as far as I can tell. Instead they extended 'secondary schools' to grade 12.

Ontario went the other way and added 11-13 to all high schools and then got rid of grade 13 just a few years back.

But school attendance is now mandatory to 18 in Ontario, so the last vestiges of the grade 10 junior matriculation are gone.
 
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