In spite of Canada’s best ever figure skating medal haul at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Mary-Katherine Phelps believes the best is yet to come. She’s the senior member of Canada’s synchronized skating team and believes it’s a sport whose time has come. “Hopefully (synchro skating will) be included in (the Olympics by) 2014, by 2018 [...] Continue Reading

While Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were making Canadian Olympic history, another young Canadian duo finished the ice dancing competition with little fanfare. Continue Reading

Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette and Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic, both Olympic bronze medallists, have been named the joint recipients of the Vancouver 2010 Terry Fox Award. Continue Reading

Canada's Joannie Rochette found the strength within to capture the bronze in women's figure skating, just four days after the death of her mother. Continue Reading

  As Joannie Rochette skated her way onto the ice for the most difficult performance of her life, the hometown crowd embraced the courageous skater with roars of encouragement after the hearing of the passing of her mother two days prior. Despite the devastation, the heroic Rochette decided to compete in the competition and was found training [...] Continue Reading

The Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team will play Germany on Tuesday for a chance to match up against the Russians in the quarter-finals. Continue Reading

Russian domination atop the ice dance podium has come to a close, and it’s a Canadian duo that ended it. Tessa Virtue, of London, Ont., and Scott Moir, of Ilderton, Ont., became the first North Americans to win the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing with a flawless performance at the Pacific Coliseum on Monday. Heading into the night [...] Continue Reading

  The roar of the crowd as the music stopped was all you needed to tell that the home favourites had just had the skate of their lives. Canadian dance pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir finished Sunday night’s original dance in top spot, after earning 68.41, vaulting themselves over the Russian pair of Oksana Domnina and [...] Continue Reading

Joannie Rochette, Canada's top female figure skater, was given the shocking news that her mother, Therese Rochette, died of a heart attack Sunday morning, two days before she was scheduled to compete in the women’s figure skating event. Continue Reading

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir begin their mission for Olympic gold in ice dance with perfect stride as they finished second in the compulsory dance at the Vancouver Olympic Games on Friday night. Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, from Ilderton, Ont., scored a personal best 42.74 points to the Tango Romantica, the original dance drawn [...] Continue Reading