Competitor Blogs

What a great experience JGP Mexico has been! Team USA was incredible this week and I am so proud of my teammates for a great international debut. Thursday was the short…

¡Hola de Mexico (aka “Greetings from Mexico”)!! I am excited to keep you all up to date on all that is happening in Mexico City at the Junior Grand Prix…

Ice-dance.com is pleased to have senior competitor Nicole Orford blogging for IDC from the 2013 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships.   January 20, 2013 – Athlete Blog 2: Wrapping…

Finally the end!!!! Today was a really long day.  We woke up around 6.30 due to the early practice.  After the 25 minutes on the ice, we did finally eat…

What a long day! Training started really early, first group was around 6, we skated at 6.50 for 20 minutes practice. Everytime I see this schedule I have to say…

Here we are, finally in competition again after a long and difficult beginning of the season. Long story short is that Tanja broke her foot at the beginning of September,…

Wow, that was a long day of competition!!! It started me up from 4:30am to do hair and make-up to be ready for practice in the morning.  The long bus…

Yesterday was a great day to Polka! Chris and I started off the Short Dance event with our program from the movie “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”  We are very…

Hello everyone! We are in Sendai, Japan for the 2012 NHK Trophy, the last Grand Prix event of this season!!!! Sendai is located in the Miyagi Prefecture, the area which…

So sorry we haven’t managed to give you an update in a few days. Thursday was practice day and to be honest, nothing really happened. The practice was in the…

Hello Everyone, It’s my turn to fill you all in about our 1st day of competition in Moscow. Last night was the dreaded 2nd night after a transatlantic flight. I…

Things were going smoothly when we arrived at JFK airport in New york right up until boarding the plane, when I had a brief panic and thought I had lost…

Never has a competition been as aptly named as this one. Despite it being our second international this year after Dortmund, it feels like the season has been a series…

Well, I had an unusual sort of a day today. Had a shock this morning when the alarm went off at 7am and we didn’t need to be up until…

Hi All! So here we are again in the beautiful city of Graz! After finishing the NRW trophy only yesterday, we flew from Dusseldorf to Vienna and picked up a…