No Comeback for Patrick Chan
BOSTON—If ever in his skating life Patrick Chan has had a moment of existential crisis, it would probably have been around 10:58 , Friday night. That’s when the marks...
Gabrielle Daleman’s Top-10 Finish worthy of tears
BOSTON—Oh, the tears of teenage girls. Tears of relief. Tears of regret. For Gabrielle Daleman it was the former. For Alaine Chartrand it was the latter. The 18-year-old Daleman...
Pairs Gold to Duhamel, Radford at Worlds
BOSTON—There is actually no six-hop on-the-dot spring element in the figure skating manual. Or in Figure Skating for Dummies either, our preferred reference guide. But Meagan Duhamel nailed that...
Canada’s Patrick Chan 5th at Worlds
BOSTON—Biggest ovation: Javier Fernandez. Biggest mark: Javier Fernandez. Biggest smile: Javier Fernandez. By quad, by God: Three of them, pristine, exclamatory, for defending and again world champion Javier...
New Jersey Skaters Take Bronze at U.S. Synchronized Championships
Five young women from New Jersey were part of a team that won a bronze medal recently at the Synchronized Skating Championships. Grace Fanning (a junior at Scotch...
The Case for Sharapova
Figure Skaters Discussed “WADA will refrain from commenting further until a decision has been issued by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Following that, WADA will review the reasons for...
Warmer Temps Won’t Deter Outdoor Ice Skating
Edison, New Jersey in late February EDISON — The puddles may have slowed down the ice skaters but it didn’t keep them off the ice. Roosevelt Park Family Ice...
Balanced Diets for the Athlete
Athletes are often asked to push their bodies beyond normal tolerance levels, resulting in increased risk of tissue injury. They lose more sweat and burn more calories than a...
Nam Nguyen Struggles at Canadian Figure Skating Championships
HALIFAX—Stephen Gogolev uncorked a gargantuan triple Axel at the Canadian figure skating championships. In practice, he’s landed quads. You can watch his feat of the feet — up, around,...
Patrick Chan voices his opinion in quad quarrel
HALIFAX—They are quad freaks. Q-geeks. Sideshow entertainers, like bearded ladies and Amazing Elastic Man, dragging men’s figure skating into theatre of the absurd. Patrick Chan wants no part of...