Toronto will open more outdoor ice rinks and skating trails across the city on Dec. 2 in addition to the 40 rinks it recently opened as part of its Welcome TO Winter program.
Bringing a pair of skates out of the locker, Keiko Marshall was rejuvenated to be back in the arena. Chuckling during the practice, her tensed emotions were relieved. Even underneath her mask, you could feel her excitement with her bright eyes. As a figure skater, she was not able to appear on the ice for a long time until the start of February.
Anna Sharbatov knew almost from the first time she tried coaching young girls it just wasn’t what the former Russian figure skater wanted to do. Hockey was her calling. The Laval hockey mom quickly became…
There are less than four months to go until the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, but ice dancers Paul Poirier and Piper Gilles still don’t know whether they’ll be able to take part. In 2011,…
Piper Gilles, 21, and Paul Poirier, 21, ice dancers who train out of the Ice Galaxy in Scarborough, will be looking to cap off an excellent first international season together when they take to the ice at the Budweiser Gardens on March 14.
BARRIE — For Lauren Barnett, the Central Ontario Skate Canada sectionals event is the climax of her figure-skating season. And with a good result, it can also represent an opportunity for her to compete at divisionals…
Canadian ice dancer Vanessa Crone is a girl with an infectious grin and an energy that seems barely contained in her 5-foot-2 frame. And she is ready to make her comeback in competitive figure-skating. All…
After a successful and injury-free summer, Canadian ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje will be kicking off their International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating season this Friday at Skate America in…
Barbara Ann Scott, Canada’s only women’s individual figure skating gold medalist, passed away on Sunday at her Amelia Island, Fla., home. She was 84. “Barbara Ann set the standard for generations of female athletes and…
Kharis Ralph, 19, and her partner Asher Hill, 20, are training hard to compete in the 2012 world figure skating championships in France next month.