While Stars on Ice has had a presence in Canada since 1990, with the full tour beginning a year later, individual program footage prior to the twenty-first century is tricky to come by. A few gems from some of the nation’s leading duos, however, are still on offer. Five-time national champions and two-time World silver…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): U.S. Stars On Ice Past
With the post-Sochi American leg of the Stars on Ice tour in full swing, it’s time enough for a few looks back at what’s come before: Following their retirement from competition in 1998, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand were cast mainstays, appearing on the tour from the 1998-99 season through 2003-04. The years of show…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): 1998 Winter Olympics
The dance event in Nagano, Japan, at the 1998 Winter Olympics is remembered probably in significant part for an off-the-podium finish for reigning Canadian champions and World bronze medalists Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz — a result not wholly unjustified given errors in the Golden Waltz compulsory and the rawness of the team’s new “Greased…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, proved a great year for North American pairs, with Canada’s Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler, 1993 World champions, capturing their second Olympic bronze and Jenni Meno & Todd Sand of the U.S. finishing fifth in their first appearance together after skating with their previous partners in 1992…
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Flashback Friday: 1988 Winter Olympics
In these last weeks before Sochi, we’ll be revisiting a few notable Olympics past, and the 1988 Calgary Olympics seem as fair a jumping-off point as any — delivering dance and pairs bronze for Canada and the U.S. alike in historic fashion. With their footwork-focused and rhythm-heavy “Elite Syncopations” ragtime free dance, choreographed by the…
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Flashback Friday: Kaitlyn Weaver, Andrew Poje and Moscow Free Dances
This weekend marks the first competitive visit to Russia for 2013 Skate Canada silver medalists Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje since 2011, when the couple twice traveled to Moscow to tackle two events — a delayed World Championships, closing out one season, and Rostelecom Cup, the final Grand Prix stop of 2011-12. Moscow proved rather…
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Flashback Friday: Ina and Dungjen, 1995 Skate America LP + Ina and Zimmerman, 2002 Worlds SP
Detroit, home this weekend to Grand Prix opener Skate America, first hosted the competition back in 1995, at a time when it served as the opening event in the Champions Series. Included among the home competitors at that event were reigning U.S. silver medalists Kyoko Ina & Jason Dungjen, a man of double local ties…
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Flashback Friday: 2011 Finlandia Trophy Free Dances
Continuing the path down memory lane for recent Senior B events, a quick look back at some early Finlandia outings for two teams repeating at the event this season, then training mates: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, unveiling Funny Face and taking gold on their first stop on the way to a second World title,…
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Flashback Friday: Maia and Alex Shibutani, 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy Free Dance
For a few skaters every season — Olympic qualifying year or otherwise — Nebelhorn Trophy is a test run, an opportunity to obtain valuable international feedback from judges at one of the more established Senior B events of the early season. And for those emerging onto the scene, it can be a proving ground: confirm…
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Flashback Friday: Before They Were Lake Placid Stars
The Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships, now in their 81st year, have played host to a number of top-level North American teams in their developing years. In this century alone, such competitors have included Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir as novices and juniors, Meryl Davis & Charlie White most recently testing the waters as incoming…