Samuel Girard became the first Canadian to win Olympic gold in the men’s 1000m event and later was part of the Canadian team that won bronze in the men’s 5000m relay. Coming off his record 10th national title, he’s put his focus on having clean skates in PyeongChang in hopes of helping Canada win gold in the team event. We reserve the right to close comments at any time.

In men’s hockey, teams were unable to use National Hockey League players. Daleman was up next, swapping in for Osmond who had skated the short program. She won gold at Skate Canada International and made her second straight appearance at the Grand Prix Final where she won bronze. Kaetlyn Osmond, right, and Gabrielle Daleman, both of Canada, smile posing with their silver and bronze medals and the national flag during victory ceremony at the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday, March 31, 2017. She scored 137.14 points to finish third amongst the women, adding another 8 points to Canada’s total, giving the team a 63-58 lead over OAR with the United States at 53 points. Bloemen was the first Canadian to win a medal in the men’s 10,000m since Frank Stack won the bronze medal at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. She called play-by-play of figure skating for CBC at the Games alongside four-time world champion Kurt Browning, and international coach Carol Lane. Canadian figure skaters won four medals at the 2018 Games, including ice dancing champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who became the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history with five career medals in total. Séguin and Bilodeau are a thrilling young team who will make their first Olympic appearance. Laurie Blouin took silver in the women’s competition, becoming the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in women’s slopestyle snowboarding. In women’s ski cross, Kelsey Serwa and Brittany Phelan won gold and silver, respectively. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Here is who is headed to PyeongChang 2018: Tessa Virtue, front, and Scott Moir perform their free dance at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday January 13, 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward That’s what Canadian figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir thought about one lift from their Moulin Rouge-inspired free program routine. Join the Canadian Olympic Club, presented by Bell, an all-access community uniting and rewarding Team Canada fans – it’s free. Virtue called the honour “the pinnacle of our career” and expressed their “pride in representing a nation whose values stand for unity, diversity, fairness and inclusion.”. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. In women’s moguls, Justine Dufour-Lapointe, who had won gold at Sochi in 2014, took silver. Team Canada’s Patrick Chan performs his routine during the men’s free skate portion of the team event at the Gangneung Ice Arena surface at PyeongChang 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, February 12, 2018. It wasn’t without some struggles, particularly on his triple Axels, but he also thought on his feet, adding a triple Salchow onto his triple Lutz after he had missed the opportunity to do it earlier in the program. Making his Olympic debut at the age of 31, Bloemen won silver in the men’s 5000m and gold in the men’s 10,000m, setting an Olympic record with a time of 12:39.77. The first week features figure skating from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Chen was 17th after the short program but won the free skate by a wide margin, landing an astonishing six quadruple jumps to finish fifth overall. They also fielded a joint women’s hockey team during the Games (coached by Canadian Sarah Murray), while Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attended the Games as part of a North Korean delegation. LISTEN | Scott Moir on Player's Own Voice: The other Canadian medals in figure skating were produced by two-time world champions and veteran skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford who claimed bronze in the pairs competition. They performed as everyone expected them to, even with some recent alterations to a couple of their lifts.
Jump to navigation Jump to search ... Canada Figure skating at the ... A total of 30 skaters qualified to compete in the event, with each country allowed to only enter a maximum of three. Also on the relay team was Charles Hamelin, who won his fifth short track speed skating medal and tied the Canadian record for most career Olympic medals by a male athlete. The 2018 Winter Games were the first since 1994 in which NHL players did not participate. In women’s bobsled. As Scott puts it, being in a relationship with an Olympian is not so peachy. Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ladies' singles.



For a complete list of figure skating records, see list of highest scores in figure skating. [1] The short program was held on 21 February, and the free skating was held on 23 February.[2][3]. For the short program this was 20.00 and the free skate 36.00.