The 2026 Olympics is around the corner
As the calendar flips to 2025, the countdown to the 2026 Olympics begins for Canada’s top figure skaters.“We’re one year from the Olympics — I look at it that way,” said Skate Canada high-performance director Mike Slipchuk. “A year from now all we have left is nationals, and then we’re in Italy.”
“The clock is ticking,” Slipchuk said. “It’ll be about ensuring they have the right plan in place to be at their best when they get to Milan.”Will Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps repeat as world champions? They’ll aim to become the first Canadian pair to achieve the feat since Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford went back-to-back in 2015 and 2016.
Slipchuk is confident they’ll return to their best with the Canadian championship in Laval, Que., approaching on Jan. 14-19. A few weeks later at the GP Final, Poirier dropped to the ice from catching his foot on the boards in the rhythm dance. Lajoie and Lagha finished fifth at worlds and earned two silver medals on the GP circuit before placing fourth in the final, one spot ahead of Gilles and Poirier.
Aleksa Rakic showed promise at Skate Canada with a seventh-place result, finishing a hair outside the top five.
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