2024-25 Canadian Figure Skating
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I think either Maddie or Uliana would be okay for getting into the free at Worlds as long as they didn't have a really bad skate. They both have been scoring a few points above the score which was needed last season.
I am more concerned about the men. 73.23 was the lowest score for qualifying last season. Roman has achieved that in 1/4 competitions this season, Welsley in 2/4 (now injured, no idea what that means for the rest of the season), Aleksa Rakic in 2/4 and Stephen Gogolov in 2/2 (but seems to be struggling with injury). Roman is ranked 35th in the season ranking for this year and is the top Canadian there. Roman is 38th on seasons best score, Aleksa 40th, Stephen Gogolev 47th and Wesley 66th.
Injured in a practice at GP China. I have no idea what the injury is or the likely implications.
I was impressed with Katherine a couple years ago at Nationals and now she is showing up and delivering. Have to wait and she how she handles the pressure in the Free. But still she has shown that she deserved International assignments. Hope she gets a few more. Hope she does well at Nationals and gets to go to 4CC. She reminds me of Leslie Hawker - a skater who develops later in life.
The 32 also means she needs 57.17 in the free for Worlds. It's a good score to meet to keep the TES needed lower.
The competition for 4CC spots this season should be good now that they have eight women with the minimums. That's almost half the spots at Nationals.
The competition for 4CC spots this season should be good now that they have eight women with the minimums. That's almost half the spots at Nationals.
In fairness to Skate Canada in this instance, the 2023-24 season wasn't as strong for KMS. She didn't pass 150 domestically, or at Cranberry Cup. She got the assignment here after two competitions in a row where she scored over 165 and showed consistency.
Moving to Richmond Training Centre looks to have paid off for her with how much her scores improved this season.
Moving to Richmond Training Centre looks to have paid off for her with how much her scores improved this season.
Bombardier/Mimar's free skate from Warsaw Cup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQQvJN7WgZs
Katherine Medland Spence's short program from Warsaw Cup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWAxatH3Vzs
Katherine Medland Spence's short program from Warsaw Cup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWAxatH3Vzs
2025 ISU Championship Selection Criteria is up - https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2025-ISU-Championships-Selection-Criteria.pdf
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Fiona's throw landings are amazingly well done and confident... and she does the lutz in the SP and the flip and loop in the LP.. interesting that she bothered learning the flip when she already had the lutz throw...she can only use either one in the LP and they are worth the same BV... so most pair girls do not bother with the other one. The only reason why Duhamel was learning the 3f throw was when they were working on the the 4luz throw.. it was messing her timing for the 3lz throw which was needed in the SP.. so she toyed with the 3f throw for a little while.
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I am wondering is it too late for Canada for the 2026 Olympics. They may not have Deanna and Max. Piper and Paul are the best hope in dance but they aren't scoring well and have already been beaten by Fear and Gibson who really are not a very top team. I hoped LaLa and the second L squared team would be doing better. I was hoping LaLa would be further ahead of USA no. 2 but they aren't - I was hoping they would be closer to Fear and Gibson. As for the pairs I am not sure Lia and Trennt have it to really co well at worlds. They look like they have lost what favour they had. I think once again like in dance you need to compare Canada to the Americans and the USA in both disciplines is ahead - in pairs yes, Deanna and Max are ahead but if they cannot go to the olympics it is possible 2 of the US teams coudl all be ahead of the Canadians. In singles it is kind of a hot mess.
Honestly, I think there's a lot of needless handwringing here. While depth is an issue, do you really think they're not going to make sure Deanna gets here citizenship? Come on now. And Piper and Paul had one bad day. They've actually scored incredibly well this season, aside from on the program where they made a major an uncharacteristic error. Do you also think Chock and Bates aren't a top team and aren't scoring well?Because that comparison is literally apples to apples. For the record, I think both are top teams who had a bad day.
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LaLa just scored higher than Fear and Gibson last week in GP Finlandia and than Lopareva Brissaud in GPFrance. Not sure why you think that they are not making progress....There won't be a second American team at GPF. As a matter of fact, Canada will have two teams there, the only country achieving that.
Deanna is already studying for her citizenship exam which means it's happening soon. Are you really thinking that they would leave a world champion and an iconic athlete on the bench for a bureaucratic reason?
Lia and Trennt skated beautifully in the SP yesterday. They had a rough LP in their first event, it happens.
An "pretty much unknown" skater, Katherine Medland Spence, from guess where, Canada, won the SP at Warsaw Cup in her first Challenger event assignment. I believe Canada has 8 women able to go to 4CC at this point or something close to that... when in the past, some of our national medal winners didn't have their minimums...
Fiona and Ben just competed in their first international event, skating pretty much clean throughout (they didn't manage the sequence after landing their 3t) and won a bronze medal.
You seem to look at the Canadian skating with a glass half empty but it seems like it was the wrong moment to do so, considering how well our skaters are doing this week.
Lajoie and Lagha were behind Guignard and Fabri in the free dance by less than a point, and beat them in TES. That is tremendous progress. I'll be so bold as to say that I think they should change their rhythm dance, as it's not as strong this season and not of the calibre of their FD, even when well skated.
I thought this team looked incredibly promising and was so glad to see it, as Canada has lost a lot of depth in pairs in the last few years. She can land side by side jumps (better than he can) and she has taken to throws like a duck to water. The lifts also look good for such a new pair, as does the death spiral. The biggest weakness is the twist, which needs a lot more height. I think they should consult a specialist. And just like Josée, Fiona has star power. There's still work to be done, obviously, but what they put out at Warsaw Cup was exciting. Now there will be some pressure on them, so we'll have to see how they handle it. They are really going to push the teams ahead of them.
What do the CAN ladies have to do to score in the high 60s in the short and over 130 in the free. Maddie has done both a few times but not recently. Lately even when she has clean skates like at SCI she still in not hitting the high scores. And at the moment it seems that a short over 65 and a Free in the 130 range is what it will take to make the top 10 at worlds.
