If you just can't wait until Vancouver 2008 ...
In our final post from wonderful Halifax, we promised to return for more blogging fun at next year's Canadian championships. But that, you'll admit, is a helluva long time away.
So in the interim, check out my new skating blog, Breaking The Ice. The first post there sums up what you'll find in that space.
A little something to tide you over until next January.
The link's off to the right under 'skating links.'
Hope you can join me there.
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Showing posts with label Vancouver. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Until We Meet Again ...
My plane back to Ottawa is about to warm up on the runway.
(after a fabulous salmon lunch at McKelvie's, and a trip to The Book Room, Canada's oldest bookstore, which has been in Halifax since 1839).
Yes, it’s time to leave the Maritimes, this remarkable city (still very much my favourite in Canada to visit) and the best hosts you could ever ask for in our fair land.
(I felt truly honoured when one of the fabulous volunteers at Canadians — a former Ottawa resident who now happily, and luckily, calls Nova Scotia home as a Radio-Canada employee — said I would fit in very well as a Maritimer).
Reality check? You bet.
And with that, the Halifax Chronicles reaches its end, as well.
The blog started out as an experiment. A test to see whether this might just be the right way to connect with a group of people in today’s day and age.
Without a doubt, the answer was a resounding yes.
So many folks, I’m told, took this ‘alternative’ route to follow the tale of these Canadian championships. And, I must admit, I was literally overwhelmed by the positive feedback the blog received throughout the week. Many thanks for the kind words, and a hearty thank you to those who contributed to it all with the stories they were so willing to share.
As Christopher Mabee would put it ... I had a blast out there.
So much so, that I can say now that the blog isn’t just an experiment anymore. It is a living, breathing thing that, I surely hope, has plenty more tales to spin in the years ahead.
Safe travels, everyone.
2008 in Vancouver ... let’s call it a date, okay?
(after a fabulous salmon lunch at McKelvie's, and a trip to The Book Room, Canada's oldest bookstore, which has been in Halifax since 1839).
Yes, it’s time to leave the Maritimes, this remarkable city (still very much my favourite in Canada to visit) and the best hosts you could ever ask for in our fair land.
(I felt truly honoured when one of the fabulous volunteers at Canadians — a former Ottawa resident who now happily, and luckily, calls Nova Scotia home as a Radio-Canada employee — said I would fit in very well as a Maritimer).
Reality check? You bet.
And with that, the Halifax Chronicles reaches its end, as well.
The blog started out as an experiment. A test to see whether this might just be the right way to connect with a group of people in today’s day and age.
Without a doubt, the answer was a resounding yes.
So many folks, I’m told, took this ‘alternative’ route to follow the tale of these Canadian championships. And, I must admit, I was literally overwhelmed by the positive feedback the blog received throughout the week. Many thanks for the kind words, and a hearty thank you to those who contributed to it all with the stories they were so willing to share.
As Christopher Mabee would put it ... I had a blast out there.
So much so, that I can say now that the blog isn’t just an experiment anymore. It is a living, breathing thing that, I surely hope, has plenty more tales to spin in the years ahead.
Safe travels, everyone.
2008 in Vancouver ... let’s call it a date, okay?
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Over To You, Vancouver
So it is hello B.C. after all.
Skate Canada has just announced Vancouver will be the site for the 2008 Canadian championships.
Dates for the event: Jan. 16-20, 2008.
It's the fifth time Canada's third-largest city will play host to the nationals, but the first since 1997. The 2001 world championships were also held in Vancouver.
The venue for next year's event will be Pacific Coliseum, also home base for the figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
“It's a great opportunity for our athletes to have a home country experience prior to the 2010 Games,” said Skate Canada CEO William Thompson.
Canadians has been shortened to five days because of the expected elimination of the senior qualifying rounds from the 2008 schedule. Senior qualifying for both men and women will be done at the East/West Challenge event in December.
Vancouver must conduct a test event at the Coliseum prior to 2010, but it has to be international in nature. If history means anything, that event should wind up being the 2009 Four Continents Championship. Salt Lake City used the 4Cs as its test event prior to the 2002 Winter Games.
Skate Canada has just announced Vancouver will be the site for the 2008 Canadian championships.
Dates for the event: Jan. 16-20, 2008.
It's the fifth time Canada's third-largest city will play host to the nationals, but the first since 1997. The 2001 world championships were also held in Vancouver.
The venue for next year's event will be Pacific Coliseum, also home base for the figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
“It's a great opportunity for our athletes to have a home country experience prior to the 2010 Games,” said Skate Canada CEO William Thompson.
Canadians has been shortened to five days because of the expected elimination of the senior qualifying rounds from the 2008 schedule. Senior qualifying for both men and women will be done at the East/West Challenge event in December.
Vancouver must conduct a test event at the Coliseum prior to 2010, but it has to be international in nature. If history means anything, that event should wind up being the 2009 Four Continents Championship. Salt Lake City used the 4Cs as its test event prior to the 2002 Winter Games.
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