Inside the school where the best Olympic ice dance teams train Beijing2022
. “We wanted to be among the best, and wanted to train alongside our biggest competitors every single day,” says Chock. They were followed by another U.S. ice dance pair Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker in 2018, who had also been training in Michigan, to join the dozens of other teams.
Dubreuil and Lauzon work hard to nurture camaraderie and support their ice dancers. Key to that is meticulous scheduling from Lauzon, whom the skaters call Patch. He spends hours a night figuring out the elaborate rotation of coaches and choreographers that ensures each team receives the time and help they need. “Everyone is well taken care of,” says Donohue. “Patch is very OCD about scheduling down to 15-minute increments. It’s one of his favorite hobbies.
“For me, I think [the Russian team] will have to step it up if they want to be in the game,” says Moir, who now coaches at another branch of the Academy in Ontario. “I admit I am a little biased. But I just don’t think they are at the same level [as the teams from I.AM] in terms of ice coverage, in terms of glide, and in terms of sheet skating.
For their free dance, the French team is dancing a contemporary tango, set to a piano and cello piece by French composer Gabriel Fauré. The program started last year as a more traditional tango, says Dubreuil, who choreographed it. But when Papadakis and Cizeron decided not to compete last season after both tested positive for COVID-19 and didn’t feel they had enough time to train, they decided to save fragments they liked.
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