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2017-2018 Canadian Road to the Olympics

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stolbovadivas

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I feel horrible for Lubov most of all. Dylan atleast got to experience an Olympics and have a great experience, winning a team medal and having a very strong individual skate and finish. Lubov never got to experience an Olympics if this is it for her, and she & Dylan were the ones to preserve 3 spots for Canada in pairs with Duhamel & Radford injured at those worlds, even finishing as top Canadians over Duhamel & Radford. What a nightmare season for them.

I get the impression she is ready for new things in her life though, and excited about skating some shows with Dylan too.
 
Mango

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Lubov & Dylan performed at the 50th Toronto Ice Dance Weekend: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf4FVTPHKcb/

Natasha Purich smashed her knee cap in an unfortunate accident and had to have emergency surgery. Let's wish her a great recovery. :pray:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf8m4FFneDI/

Piper Gilles is gracing the cover of The Girl North magazine. Here are some photos/videos from her shoot.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf97zS1Akpo/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf9GInwlGA1/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf9KXmdlN-k/

Skate Canada press release about Junior Worlds athletes:
Canadian junior skaters in Bulgaria for the 2018 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships

An interesting seminar featuring Aurora & Stephen (and Brian!): Thornhill Figure Skating Club Seminar

Stars on Ice Japan has a few Canadians in their line up. Kaetlyn, V/M, D/R, and Chiddy: http://figureskate-soi.com/skaters.html
Starts March 31 in Osaka.
 
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Patrick and Gabby were both recognized by MLS with invites to their home teams' opening games this past weekend.

Patrick
Gabby

Lubov and Javier Raya attended the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_9gYWjvZd/

An update on Natasha Purich (warning: a bit gnarly): https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_f7aTHZRw/

Lajoie/Lagha have earned a small silver medal at the Junior World Championships for their SD. Here's some coverage.

Canadian dance duo Lajoie-Lagha sit 2nd in world junior skating championships
https://twitter.com/SkateCanada/status/971518456871862272
https://twitter.com/ISU_Figure/status/971401954260934656
https://twitter.com/ISU_Figure/status/971529151097266176

And some junior pairs: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgBRennlhlq/

CBC's top Canadian photo from the Olympics
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgB5nxFA50v/

Nam's preparing for Worlds ;)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgCt9DKhtWs/

Mike acknowledging his role models
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_3rjaHR8Q/

Scott thanked Ilderton for all the support
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgCU-GJAp3Q/
 
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Congrats to Joseph Phan on going from 14th place to 4th and winning a small bronze medal in the free skate! His placement gives Canada the max number of JGP spots for Junior men next season! Unbelievable.

Thoughts on him going senior? Last year he wasn't sent to get senior minimums but he did win Challenge. There's been very few skaters that benefited from being held back, I really think he should move up and start prepping himself for this upcoming quad.
 
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Krunchii said:
Congrats to Joseph Phan on going from 14th place to 4th and winning a small bronze medal in the free skate! His placement gives Canada the max number of JGP spots for Junior men next season! Unbelievable.
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Yeah. Obviously when you're in fourteenth spot after the short program there's no real expectation of being on the podium, but boy must he wish he'd gotten just a bit more GOE out of those opening jumps. He was less than a point off of third place. But a remarkable clutch performance.

Lajoie and Lagha, on the other hand, totally got screwed over.
 
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Having full JGP spots for the men is really great. Even if Joseph stays in juniors, there will be plenty of spots. Let's say two for Joseph, Conrad and Stephen for sure, which would leave eight spots open still. If Joseph does stay in juniors, I hope both he and Conrad get a Challenger assignment or two.
 
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Colonel Green said:
Yeah. Obviously when you're in fourteenth spot after the short program there's no real expectation of being on the podium, but boy must he wish he'd gotten just a bit more GOE out of those opening jumps. He was less than a point off of third place. But a remarkable clutch performance.

Lajoie and Lagha, on the other hand, totally got screwed over.
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Okay, but they are Canadian after all, who amongst them will complain, even if they skated better than some podium finishers, what can they say but,...'sorry' :noshake:

Shame, and yet another reason not to follow international junior skating.
 
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phan's skating is good. i've heard someone pr him as a new patrick but not a close really.... conrad's skating is also good. sad for aurora. i expected at least no less 100 points for the free skate
 
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Osmond4gold said:
Okay, but they are Canadian after all, who amongst them will complain, even if they skated better than some podium finishers, what can they say but,...'sorry' :noshake:

Shame, and yet another reason not to follow international junior skating.
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Zach gave a pretty knowing 👏 at the results.

It reminded me of Moir tbh. It was great.
 
Mango

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Marjorie and the other junior skaters were back in the rink to cheer on Aurora and the guys: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgJDNZUHYwV/
+3 GOE for team spirit :)

Looking at junior competitors who could use some JGP spots I'd say the following would be up for consideration if not granted a spot outright. If they don't get a JGP they could still be in consideration for a spot at ACI or other international. I'll put a * for those who may move up to senior instead, and a ? for those who would likely need good summer results to get an assignment.

Men
Joseph Phan*
Conrad Orzel*
Eric Liu
Iliya Kovler
Corey Circelli
Stephen Gogolev
Beres Clements
Matthew Markell
Alec Guinzbourg
Bruce Waddell? (likely will get an ice dance spot instead)
Jack Dushenski?
Brian Le?
Dawson Nodwell?
Max Denk?

Ladies
Aurora Cotop*
Olivia Gran
Alison Schumacher
Victoria Bocknek
Emma Bulawka?
Emily Bausback?
Amelia Orzel?
Daria Carr?

Pairs
Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste
Olivia Boys-Eddy / Mackenzie Boys-Eddy
Gabrielle Levesque / Pier-Alexandre Hudon
Gabriella Marvaldi / Daniel Villeneuve
Marine Pouliot / Alexandre Simard
Camille Perreault / Bryan Pierro
Sophia O’Brien-Doerksen / Josh Venema?
Patricia Andrew / Paxton Knott (if Patricia's birthday comes before July 1)

Ice Dance
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha*
Olivia McIsaac / Elliott Graham
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Natalie D’Alessandro / Bruce Waddell
Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont
Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara
Nina Mizuki / Veniamins Volskis?
Katerina Kasatkin / Corey Circelli?
+ several new teams forming from the ashes of all the split teams

Skate Canada needs to start seriously monitoring (better) in the spring and summer to see who should get two spots. A few teams who got two spots last season did not perform well at Nationals and ended up splitting or missing out on a trip to Junior Worlds.
 
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ancientpeas said:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/f...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Article on the Canadian legacy at this games.
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I agree with the article the coaches deserve more credit. The Ravi Walia Rink to be opened by a CF-18 flyover is long overdue!

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Mango said:
2019 Nationals tickets go on sale tomorrow: https://skatecanada.ca/2018/03/ticket-info-2019-canadian-tire-national-skating-championships/
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Wish I could make this. Instead going to try to incorporate a 3-day urban exploring trip around Vancouver & Victoria when Stars On Ice is there next year.
 
Colonel Green

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Mango said:
This probably belongs in next season's thread (we need to finish this season first :cool14:) but we have a new junior ice dance team: Irina Galiyanova / Grayson Lochhead. Both at Scarboro FSC.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgXFsLcgPBL
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The more the merrier.

Looking back over this season, I do wonder if Skate Canada shouldn't have sent Julianne & Charlie (and heck, throw in Kirsten & Michael) to Four Continents in addition to the Olympics. Neither were medal prospects in the latter, and they weren't even being used for the team event, but they would have easily won medals at the pairs event at Four Continents, which would have helped burnish their reputations for the next four years.
 
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SnowWhite said:
I wondered if they'd pair up when both their partnerships ended, since they train together.
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And their ex-partners are dating. ;)

Lee Royer and Alicia Fabbri need to pair up and then I can be content about summer competitions. :)
 
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