Michelle Kwan, the American figure skater who owns nine national championships and five world titles, is about to become a non-salaried U.S. diplomat.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to name the 26-year-old Californian and daughter of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong as a public diplomacy ambassador, said a senior U.S. official who spoke anonymously pending the formal announcement.
Kwan, the biggest star in her sport for a ...
Montreal native Francois-Louis Tremblay
and Olivier Jean of Lachenaie, Que., won gold and silver
respectively on Saturday in the men's 500-metres at the
season-opening short track speed skating World Cup competition.
Tremblay rocketed from the start and was unchallenged until the
finish in the four-man final, clocking 42.139 seconds. Jean was
second in 42.271 while Kim Byeong-jun of South Korea was third.
The Canadians capitalized on a new rule for this season with the
starting positions determined by ...
Renowned coach and choreographer Bernard Ford and 10-time Canadian ice dance champions Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz will be inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame.
Skate Canada announced Friday that Bourne, of Chatham, Ont., and Kraatz, of Vancouver, will be inducted into the athlete category on Jan. 21 in Halifax. Ford will enter as a builder.
``This is a real honour for me, and it is a very ...
Lloyd Eisler is asking Skate Canada to reconsider its decision to ban him from coaching for one year.
According to the Toronto Star, Eisler was suspended by Skate Canada because e-mails he allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl he was coaching in 2005 were deemed inappropriate by Skate Canada.
Skate Canada CEO William Thompson says the organization was advised by legal counsel not to divulge why Eisler was suspended.
The ...
Canadian champion Jeff Buttle, who has been slowed by a back injury, has withdrawn from the Skate Canada International meet Nov. 2-5 in Victoria.
Buttle, 24, was diagnosed in mid-August with a stress fracture in his mid to lower spine. He was off skates for three weeks before a gradual return to training.
The Olympic bronze medallist had hoped to be in Victoria for the second meet of the six-meet ...
Katsuichiro Hisanaga, the fallen kingpin of Japanese figure skating, usually had a smile on his face when he visited Canada.
``Any time I ever dealt with him, he was fun to be around,'' says Doug Leigh, head coach at the Mariposa School of Skating in Barrie, Ont. ``He was positive, always talking about good stuff.
``He was an upbeat character overall.''
Japanese skater Takeshi Honda trained at Mariposa for seven ...
The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver can't come fast enough for short-track speed skater Amanda Overland.
``I'm anxious already and the way our seasons go, they fly by so fast, I look at it that it's not that far away,'' the native of Kitchener, Ont., said Thursday. ``And come that Olympic year, we're skating earlier because the trials are earlier, we have to ready.
``It's right there for me, especially ...
Vaughn Chipeur of Edmonton won a bronze medal in figure skating's Nebelhorn Trophy on Friday.
Tomas Verner of the Czech Republic nailed a quadruple toe-loop to win gold. Verner, who also led after the short program, earned 194.46 points to finish first. Parker Pennington of the United States was second with 187.82, while Chipeur scored 167.04 for the bronze.
In the women's event, Amanda Billings of Calgary was second after ...
Olympic bronze medallist Jeff Buttle is coping with a back injury but expects to compete as scheduled in the Skate Canada International meet in Victoria.
Buttle has been unable to practice his full repertoire of jumps since being diagnosed with an upper spine stress fracture in mid-August. There was no specific incident that caused the injury.
``It had been flaring up off and on,'' coach Lee Barkell said Monday. ``It's ...
One of the indelible images from the last 20 years of Canadian figure skating was Mike Slipchuk's triumph at the 1992 nationals.
Three-time world champion Kurt Browning was hurt and didn't go to Moncton, and a hotshot by the name of Elvis Stojko was expected to snatch the crown.
Slipchuk, skating in Browning's shadow all the while out of Edmonton's Royal Glenora Club, seemed to have little chance after a ...
