OTTAWA - Qualifying for Canadas Olympic Skating Team takes place this weekend at The Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa This is not just
another national championships.
Brandon Crawford Jersey . It is the chance of a lifetime to make the Canadian Olympic Team and its a celebration of 100 years
of the Canadian Championships. Canadian skating is celebrating its past at these
Championships and also its future, as based on stellar results, Canada has
qualified to send the largest skating team to Sochi. This is about Canadian
skaters continuing to break new ground at home and on the international stage.
Patrick Chan is on the verge, he hopes, of being the first Canadian man to win
Olympic Gold. He has treated us in the past to superb performances at nationals,
en route to his World Championship wins. In light of his performances this
season, we can expect nothing less of him here. Saving and peaking are words not
in his vocabulary. He will no doubt hold nothing back as he goes after his 7th
Canadian title. This is about what is believed to be a Canadian farewell to
Olympic Champions and ice dance legends Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who unless
we can convince them otherwise, will leave competitive skating after the Games.
They have been building throughout this season and are looking stronger and
fitter, more refined and in tune each time out. They will look at their
performance here as a gift to themselves to be able to perform their Olympic
programs in front of their Canadian fans while in peak condition. They will
likely be soaking it all in and storing it to memory so that it can be looked
back on fondly down the road. So too I bet, will the audiences. This is a
welcome back to the nationals for six-time Canadian Medalists Kaitlyn Weaver and
Andrew Poje. Kaitlyn was injured last year in practice a month before nationals
and so was unable to compete. Her injury, a broken fibula, was so severe the
doctors even ruled out the possibility of competing at Worlds last March. Three
months to the day after the accident and after methodically and relentlessly
working through the pain of rehab, Kaitlyn and Andrew competed and finished 5th
at The World Championships and once again showed us how they can grow stronger
and more resilient through adversity. Injury free and at the top of their game,
they hope that they will put up the kind of numbers here that are worthy of
podium contention in Sochi. This is about two rival pair teams continuing the
rich tradition of Canadian pairs as they duke it out once again for the Canadian
title. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch were Canadian Champs in 2011,
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford in 2012. Last year in the closest of contests
Meagan and Eric defended their title, beating Kirsten and Dylan by less than a
point in the short and just over a point in the long. It was one of those events
where when its over you literally sit back in your seat and think, "Wow! What a
fight!" At last years World Championships, the edge once again went to Meagan
and Eric who finished third and just one spot ahead of Kirsten and Dylan. Both
teams have the same goals, Canadian title and Olympic medal. As teams, they cant
get much closer. As a competition, it doesnt get much better. And then there are
the unknowns. Kevin Reynolds, the quad king, who had a break-out season last
year finishing 5th in the world, has not competed this year due to boot
problems. There are seven guys going after three spots. Patricks got one of
those spots and Kevin certainly has the credentials to earn the second, but he
will be pressured in this, his first competition of the season. Canadian ladies
champion Kaetlyn Osmond is feeling the same kind of heat as hers has been a
season of untimely injuries which have cost her valuable training time. Six
women fighting for two spots. Kaetlyn has posted by far the best scores to date,
but she will contend with a Canadian Champion and some young and feisty
up-and-comers and so will have to be on her toes, so to speak. This is about
dreams coming true and bitter disappointments. About your last four years being
defined by the next four minutes. About becoming a champion, a medalist, an
Olympic team member or going down trying. As Roosevelt said in The Man in the
Arena, "His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat." This is the 100-year anniversary of the Canadian
Skating Championships. The tradition continues.
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Road.The CFLs sack master is staying in Calgary. The Stampeders announced
Hughes, last years league leader in sacks with 18, has signed a contract
extension. "Charleston has firmly established himself as a premier defensive end
in this league and is a key cog in our defensive unit," head coach and general
manager John Hufnagel said in a team statement. "Im pleased that he has chosen
to remain with the Stampeders and look forward to his continued excellence in
the years to come." Hughes has spent ssix seasons in Calgary, and has been named
a CFL All-Star two times.
Custom San Francisco Giants Jersey. He is third on the teams all-time sack list with 54 and came just one sack shy of
tying Harold Hallmans single-season sack record for the Stamps. "I want to thank
the entire organization for bringing me back," Hughes said in a team statement.
"I love playing in Calgary and Im looking forward to getting back on the field
and getting after another championship." Terms of the deal were not released.
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