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2024-25 Canadian Figure Skating

I found some official information about the citizenship ceremony From the video, it looks like the actual oath was done by video.

According to this site, new citizens get their citizen certificate at the ceremony. So Deanna may be in line at the passport office right now.

Incidentally, her passport may not be physically the same as everyone elses, since they changed the design recently. My husband and I renewed ours a couple of months apart about 18/20 months ago when they were phasing in the new design. We both got "old stock".
 
and summer is 2/2 another win, another world record in the 200m butterfly (Ilya Kharun, also won his 200m butterfly for Canadian men... (of course, it's off topic... brooke is no longer with us... and well...it's swimming BUT let's just think of the swimming pool as a thawed ice rink LOL)
 
Skate Canada redesigned their website. I tried out a few direct links from here, they look to be redirecting well (y)

Some of the changes:
NextGen selection criteria for next season has also been posted - https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NextGen-Team-Selection-2025-EN.pdf
 
watched the videos...

So Maxime was very ill.. couldn't even lift Deanna and still isn't training full time but feels he should be okay next week... and they are confident for nationals/4cc.

Poor guy.

I am so happy for these two. I hope they remain free of injuries and illnesses for the next couple years and can skate well at the games.
 
4everchan said:
watched the videos...

So Maxime was very ill.. couldn't even lift Deanna and still isn't training full time but feels he should be okay next week... and they are confident for nationals/4cc.

Poor guy.

I am so happy for these two. I hope they remain free of injuries and illnesses for the next couple years and can skate well at the games.
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Her finally becoming Canadian solidified my plans to go to Milan :D The tickets are expensive, and accomodation probably will be too, but this is most likely their only outing at such a huge stage and it's not that far from where I live (between 4 and 5 hours by car), so I'll probably try to get tickets for both Pairs events.
 
DemTuppesSeine said:
Her finally becoming Canadian solidified my plans to go to Milan :D The tickets are expensive, and accomodation probably will be too, but this is most likely their only outing at such a huge stage and it's not that far from where I live (between 4 and 5 hours by car), so I'll probably try to get tickets for both Pairs events.
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Good luck... I was in Vancouver in 2010 and couldn't get tickets.... (lottery and I only won curling LOL, which was epic btw) totally worth it... Worlds last year was so amazing... so i bet Ogames is even better. Don't miss your chance... :)
 
4everchan said:
Good luck... I was in Vancouver in 2010 and couldn't get tickets.... (lottery and I only won curling LOL, which was epic btw) totally worth it... Worlds last year was so amazing... so i bet Ogames is even better. Don't miss your chance... :)
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Thanks :D I've registered for early access, let's see if that will help 😅
 
NanaPat said:
They're doing their best to get passports to people with urgent needs. And according to this article, they do reprint passports. The article is mainly about Edmonton, where they had a flood in the passport office, but has general info on passports during the strike.
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Just returned from the Hamilton office for passport renewal. In and out in 90 minutes. Will return later on today to pick up the passport.
 
Robert Brodie interviews Katherine Medland Spence:

“Consistent training is basically what it is. Last year, being injured, I just couldn’t have consistent training and so by the time I got to competition, I didn’t have anything to rely on,” she says in explaining the not-so-secrets behind the success she is enjoying in her best season to date. “And just mentally and emotionally, making sure I’m good and solid, Last year, I was extremely burnt out. Partly from dealing with the injuries, but just other stuff in general. This year, it’s been a big priority of taking care of myself physically and mentally and emotionally, and making sure I’m good to go because that allows me to go out and have good training every day. And then that allows me, in competition, to have the training to rely on.”
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4everchan said:
Good luck... I was in Vancouver in 2010 and couldn't get tickets.... (lottery and I only won curling LOL, which was epic btw) totally worth it... Worlds last year was so amazing... so i bet Ogames is even better. Don't miss your chance... :)
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I was in Vancouver too and got the men's short program in the lottery...not bad, but what I really wanted was ice dance, since it was pretty obvious to me that Tessa and Scott were in line to win it and I would have loved to see it live.

Still, it was very instructive to see all the men live. Brezina (who I don't think the judges knew what to do with, lol), Takahashi, Plushenko, Lysecek, Lambiel, and of course Patrick. People who complain about Lysecek beating Plushenko I don't think properly understand how shockingly slow Plushy was. I know it very much surprised me. The footwork was painful.
 
rain said:
I was in Vancouver too and got the men's short program in the lottery...not bad, but what I really wanted was ice dance, since it was pretty obvious to me that Tessa and Scott were in line to win it and I would have loved to see it live.

Still, it was very instructive to see all the men live. Brezina (who I don't think the judges knew what to do with, lol), Takahashi, Plushenko, Lysecek, Lambiel, and of course Patrick. People who complain about Lysecek beating Plushenko I don't think properly understand how shockingly slow Plushy was. I know it very much surprised me. The footwork was painful.
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I would have done many naughty things to see Patrick skate at the games, though he wasn't in his best shape after injury ;)
 
4everchan said:
Good luck... I was in Vancouver in 2010 and couldn't get tickets.... (lottery and I only won curling LOL, which was epic btw) totally worth it... Worlds last year was so amazing... so i bet Ogames is even better. Don't miss your chance... :)
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One of the advantages of being a Vancouverite in 2010 -- BC residents got first pick in an advance sale just for us, so I was easily able to get good tickets to all the ice dance stages. Not that I needed them myself because I was volunteering anyway, but after 14 years I'll confess I applied on behalf of Sinead and John's parents. Put them on my credit card and then the Kerrs paid me back for them. We had the speedskating out in Richmond, and it was fun to have so many tourists in the shops. All of them overdressed for our customary warm drizzly weather 🥵.
 
Diana Delafield said:
One of the advantages of being a Vancouverite in 2010 -- BC residents got first pick in an advance sale just for us, so I was easily able to get good tickets to all the ice dance stages. Not that I needed them myself because I was volunteering anyway, but after 14 years I'll confess I applied on behalf of Sinead and John's parents. Put them on my credit card and then the Kerrs paid me back for them. We had the speedskating out in Richmond, and it was fun to have so many tourists in the shops. All of them overdressed for our customary warm drizzly weather 🥵.
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That's awesome that you were able to help them like that but surprising that there's no system for parents to be able to have ordering priority. I guess that would be very difficult to manage, and there are so many other people who want tickets as well so it would be hard to balance.

I loved watching the Kerrs and really enjoyed their Linkin Park "Krwlng" FD that year.
 
I can see Maddie going back to an old program if she feels more comfortable with it , but she really didn't have great luck with that program either. But maybe it was more about her mind set in regards to which program she liked better.
 
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