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Skate Canada 2026 RECAP

We dig into all the excitement from Skate Canada 2026: Mao Shimada remains undefeated! Kevin Aymoz rises to take gold! Ice Dance scoring was mostly normal and uncontroversial! Chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:47 Women's Competition 00:22:02 Pairs Competition 00:33:00 Men's Competition 00:46:11 Ice Dance Competition 01:03:22 Gold in our Hearts 01:05:02 Cup of China Preview 01:12:44 Wrap-Up he second stop of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating series took us to Skate Canada, where Japan's Mao Shimada continued her winning streak in dominant fashion. In her first appearance on the Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Shimada delivered 2 nearly flawless programs that landed her a whopping 235.44 total. The second place finisher, Estonia's skating queen Niina Petrokina, also had an incredible competition and truly established herself as one of the top women to watch this season. In third, Isabeau Levito had a glorious short program that had her only a few points behind Shimada. However, the free skate didn't go as well and she just held on for bronze over the fabulous Saki Miyake. The Pairs competition was a showcase for World Bronze medalists, Lia Pereria and Trennt Michaud of Canada. Their short program looked as confident and strong as we have ever seen them. The free had some issues, but overall this sets them up well as a top team. Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov of the US were solid in their season debut for silver, but the surprise bronze for Oxana Vouillamoz and Tom Bouvart of Switzerland had perhaps the "moment" of the competition with a clean free skate. As for the men, Kevin Aymoz charmed his way to his second Grand Prix gold with technically imperfect but artistically brilliant skates. In silver, Japan's superstar rookie, Rio Nakata, looked set up for victory in the short. His free skate, however, was much messier and couldn't keep him ahead. In third, Estonia's Mihhail Selevko had a particularly strong free skate that took him from fifth to third. Lastly, the dance event saw vibrant, crowd pleasing performances for gold from Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of the UK. In second, the innovative French team of Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud delivered phenomenal versions of their new programs to hold them about 9 points behind the Brits. Rounding out the podium was Caroline Green and Michael Parsons of the US, who scored the first level 4 Golden Waltz of the season from any team!

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We dig into all the excitement from Skate Canada 2026: Mao Shimada remains undefeated! Kevin Aymoz rises to take gold! Ice Dance scoring was mostly normal and uncontroversial!

Chapters

  • 00:00:00 Intro
  • 00:00:47 Women's Competition
  • 00:22:02 Pairs Competition
  • 00:33:00 Men's Competition
  • 00:46:11 Ice Dance Competition
  • 01:03:22 Gold in our Hearts
  • 01:05:02 Cup of China Preview
  • 01:12:44 Wrap-Up

he second stop of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating series took us to Skate Canada, where Japan's Mao Shimada continued her winning streak in dominant fashion.

In her first appearance on the Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Shimada delivered 2 nearly flawless programs that landed her a whopping 235.44 total. The second place finisher, Estonia's skating queen Niina Petrokina, also had an incredible competition and truly established herself as one of the top women to watch this season. In third, Isabeau Levito had a glorious short program that had her only a few points behind Shimada. However, the free skate didn't go as well and she just held on for bronze over the fabulous Saki Miyake.

The Pairs competition was a showcase for World Bronze medalists, Lia Pereria and Trennt Michaud of Canada. Their short program looked as confident and strong as we have ever seen them. The free had some issues, but overall this sets them up well as a top team. Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov of the US were solid in their season debut for silver, but the surprise bronze for Oxana Vouillamoz and Tom Bouvart of Switzerland had perhaps the "moment" of the competition with a clean free skate.

As for the men, Kevin Aymoz charmed his way to his second Grand Prix gold with technically imperfect but artistically brilliant skates. In silver, Japan's superstar rookie, Rio Nakata, looked set up for victory in the short. His free skate, however, was much messier and couldn't keep him ahead. In third, Estonia's Mihhail Selevko had a particularly strong free skate that took him from fifth to third.

Lastly, the dance event saw vibrant, crowd pleasing performances for gold from Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of the UK. In second, the innovative French team of Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud delivered phenomenal versions of their new programs to hold them about 9 points behind the Brits. Rounding out the podium was Caroline Green and Michael Parsons of the US, who scored the first level 4 Golden Waltz of the season from any team!

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