2025-2026 Canadian Figure Skating
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Last year, there were skaters invited to the nextgen competition who didn’t eventually make the team or at least not as it is posted on the SC website. Men - Jeffrey Chen, Petro Chenoratov; Women - Megane Vallières, Calissa Adlem, Gabrielle Jugnauth, Kaydee Kaley, Kaylee Sun; Pairs. The 2 teams not listed were because broke up (Kent/Laliberté Laurent) and I think injury (Wong/Conforti); Ice dance - Kalaganis/Deveau, Proulx/Cincon-Debout, Theroux/Gossard, Podgornei/Caron.
So, perhaps SC has changed the process on team selection. But April seems to be early. Particularly with pairs and dance with many new teams forming this spring.
My understanding from previous years was that the Next Gen competition was meant to form part of the selection process for the Next Gen team. That it why it confused me that team members were being announced now. I am kind of still confused about what is going on.
I don't see LaLa bowing out now that they will finally be Canada #1.
That said, I'm not sure how optimistic I am about IAM caring about them even so. They certainly seem to have favourites, and at the top of that list is Cizeron. You would have thought after Montreal Worlds, where LaLa were the talk of the event as the fresh new team, that IAM would have put the effort in, but they clearly didn't.
As for Virtue and Moir, I think they learned the hard way to advocate for themselves and what they wanted and needed after enduring Marina's clear favouritism for Davis/White in their final years with her. To their credit, they really drove their own careers in their final years with IAM, using IAM as a resource/partner as equals.
Robert Brodie interviews Olivia Di Giandomenico and Julia Bernardo, co-captains of Les Supremes:
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'So much pride and happiness'
One year after a disappointing finish at their biggest event of the season, Canada's Les Supremes are back on top of the synchronized skating world
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I know it would be difficult, and clunky, to word it to include him every time the team is mentioned as a whole, but I do wonder how the lone male skater on the team feels reading that with its constant repetition of "the girls"?Robert Brodie interviews Olivia Di Giandomenico and Julia Bernardo, co-captains of Les Supremes:
'So much pride and happiness'
One year after a disappointing finish at their biggest event of the season, Canada's Les Supremes are back on top of the synchronized skating world
Otherwise, an interesting article about the training process of a team. Why, I wonder, would skaters move from other countries to join them? Do they plan to coach teams themselves eventually in their home countries and want to learn with the best? It's not as if a synchro team retires en masse to skate in shows as a team, so that wouldn't be their goal?
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you can see our discussion about this in the country change threadFrom the Wikipedia page, it sounds like Paul Ayer will represent Mexico:
“In April 2026, Ayer announced that he had acquired Mexican citizenship.”
Maybe, this is his way to make it to the 2030 Olympic Games
Argh
I try to just focus on one thread…..
Ok. Cool…. Let me take a peak in the country change thread… I might be shocked with some other updates there
Also, for me, the new Season begins tomorrow with Sunsational event in AB.
Parker, our Canadian Junior National champion headlines the event as he debuts in his first senior event.
I’m also looking forward to watching Travis in junior men and Kassidy and Kaydee in the ladies events.
No Lia Cho (I wanted to see if she would skate as a Senior or Junior). She must be focusing on her Junior Programs. I hope she keeps the same programs for JGP. Also, no Kaiya or Uxia.
Parker, our Canadian Junior National champion headlines the event as he debuts in his first senior event.
I’m also looking forward to watching Travis in junior men and Kassidy and Kaydee in the ladies events.
No Lia Cho (I wanted to see if she would skate as a Senior or Junior). She must be focusing on her Junior Programs. I hope she keeps the same programs for JGP. Also, no Kaiya or Uxia.
I think it could be wanting to be on the more competitive teams. Their home country may not be as strong in synchro, or they might not feel like their country's top team is a good fit for them.
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I am curious about who are the "international" people.
For those who don't know, Saint-Léonard is a neighbourhood located on the Montreal Island which was known for decades as an Italian neighbourhood in Montreal. Right now, many immigrants living in Saint-Léonard also come from Haiti and Algeria, making it a very multi-cultural neighbourhood. I guess you may have noticed that both of the girls doing the interviews have Italian surnames.
So, it's easy to think that considering the prevalence of immigration already in Saint-Leonard that some young girls may have familial ties and wanting to move to Montreal to train with the top team in the world. I am not saying that's the only factor, of course not, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, just like some Italians athletes born in Montreal end up representing Italy in sports like diving (Sarah Jodoin di Maria) or short track speed skating (Cynthia Mascitto) at the Olympics.
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The article mentions that the team has two skaters from Japan and the US who moved to Montreal to join them. I don't know if nationality or citizenship matters in synchro as a team sport, considering the number of players on hockey etc teams who come from other countries (but then play for their own country's team at the Olympics), and both girls may have family ties to Canada. I was just curious. I hadn't heard of that happening in synchro before.
For Les Supremes, Rikako Fukase who represented Japan in Ice Dance. She trained at IAM while competing in ice dance, and Les Supremes are the IAM team. So she probably got involved through that.
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That sounds like a more logical reason than the ones I tossed around. With Pascal Denis coaching both disciplines, he may keep an eye out among the dancers as a recruiter for his synchro teams also.
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wouldn't matter until it's an olympic sport
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makes sense... forget about my traditional Italian family relationships then
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Yes, I thought of that but figured I'd leave that Olympic-synchro can of worms closedwouldn't matter until it's an olympic sport
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