2017-2018 Canadian Road to the Olympics

SarahSynchro said:

I wonder if Stephen Gogolev was mortified to compete against Patrick Chan at nationals this past January with their age gap being 14 years. Chiddy: born in December of 1990, Stephen: born in December of 2004.

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ancientpeas said:

Maybe he was the other kind of mortified: subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline. Like he saw Patrick's excellence and he thought "darn.. I need to get work!
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ancientpeas said:

Do you think it might help to update the title? Maybe so people know to post here about Canadian skaters and not just about what happened at the Olympics?

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ancientpeas said:

Maybe he was the other kind of mortified: subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline. Like he saw Patrick's excellence and he thought "darn.. I need to get work!
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Colonel Green said:

The greatest remaining contribution Patrick could make to Canadian figure skating would be to take a consulting position at Orser’s operation and focus on tutoring Stephen on bladework/choreo. In the quad arms race, the ones who can do interesting stuff in between the quads will have something extra.

Unrelatedly, the results at 2018 Worlds make me wonder if KMT/Marinaro have more upside over the next four years than I had previously thought. Even granting that their sixth-place overall finish was aided by others’ mistakes, it’s as fair to note that they set personal best scores in the free and overall despite KMT’s ankle injury impeding them through the lead up to and during the event. Seems like they got some real traction with that panel of judges, at least, and I think Marinaro still has a fair bit of room where he could further improve.

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Mango said:

It has Canadian in the title. If people would like to get into the Twitter posting history of American celebrities in this thread they are going off topic. Actually, shouldn't the mods be keeping up with this?



Did you watch Stephen skate at Nationals? He yoloed at 3A at the end of his FS and planned to do a quad Lutz as his opening jump. Stephen was there to skate and do his best, regardless of who was on the ice. And seeing his quad Lutz in the warm up it was obvious he gave no flying figs about who he was competing against.



Colonel Green Patrick won't be joining Brian because he's got his own school opening up in Vancouver. He wants the West Coast skaters to have the kind coaching available to them that folks in Ontario and Quebec have. But fear not, Stephen is involved with Gadbois to work on these things.

Agreed about M-T/M 2.0. They haven't maxed out their difficulty yet so there's still room for improvement.

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ancientpeas said:

The mortified thing was more about the fact that the word has another meaning.

I was feeling very catholic today on Easter Sunday.

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Mango said:

Patrick, Jeff, Meagan, Eric, Kaetlyn, and Tessa & Scott will be at Yuna Kim's All That Skate 2018, May 20-22.

https://twitter.com/fslove08/status/980997747758194689

Piper & Paul are skating at an ice show in Kenora on April 6: http://www.skateontario.org/2018/04...ith-special-guests-piper-gilles-paul-poirier/

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millie said:

It seems as if Kaetlyn is very popular in the figure skating world. She has been invited to all the ice shows. I suppose that not uncommon for the Ladies World Champion.

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4everchan said:

yup and especially since the last two wc were the same girl, and it's her first, so it's the "optimal" timing for marketing. I hope she manages touring to that level with poise and manages her fatigue well.

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Mango said:

It still doesn't make sense. He got angry and did a 3A at the end of his program. How is that subdued? Actually, you don't need to explain it. It's ok.

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Osmond4gold said:

I am a Catholic also, and it does not make sense, Mango...maybe she meant ''crucified'', as in nailed to a cross, versus mortified?

Regardless, missing me some ancientpeas, and I hope to see her back soon!

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Mango said:

If you read enough Brian Orser interviews you get a sense of what Stephen is like. He's this quiet kid if you try to interview him but he's actually a very intelligent guy when it comes to skating. Ah but I'll let his skating do the talking. As always.

Did you mean TGee? She was our resident academic.

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Colonel Green said:

We're a ways from getting the details, but I'll be interested in what the Canadian Fed decides to do for its Grand Prix strategy this year. It's highly unlikely we can make the men's final (prove me wrong, Keegan!), to start.

For the women, Kaetlyn's made it the last two years (one more will equal Joannie Rochette's record for the most appearances by a Canadian woman), and seems like a favourite to do so again. Presumably she'll do Skate Canada again, and probably France as the other. Gabby's not in the same seed bracket as Kaetlyn (if Carolina retires, she'll be the sixth seed, in the same bracket as Alina and Bradie), so I expect they'll probably double up at Skate Canada and then she'll also get...whichever other event is left over after Alina and Bradie's places are selected. There's only been one occasion where two Canadian women made the final (Joannie and Cynthia Phaneuf in 2004-05). It'll probably be a challenge to do it again, though ironically if Gabby if the sixth seed that's actually relatively advantageous compared to if she'd made the top three, since it means she can do Skate Canada and try for either gold or silver there. A silver and a bronze has been enough to make the Final on a number of occasions. Gabby didn't have a ton of luck last year (Olympic team event aside), so here's to next year being better.

Based on the way they've handled ice dance in prior years, I expect the Fed will do a similar doubling-up strategy with Kaitlyn/Andrew and Piper/Paul at Skate Canada, aiming for two-top placements. Kaitlyn and Andrew might stand a good chance of winning both their events; Piper/Paul will probably have to hope for either another silver or a bronze and that that'll be enough.

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