Exquisite Rika Kihira: one with the story she tells / Titanic
By now, you already know our intentions: to share with you those photos that take you in their arms for a while.
That keep you in the moment, keep you in a bubble, and allow you to feel.
We first travelled to Skate America, in Norwood – and now we’ve moved to Mississauga, home to this year’s edition of Skate Canada. Official results are just a click away – but you won’t need them for this journey, trust us.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: In the hands of the faith / Evita
As if this were a family-photo: Matteo Rizzo and coach Franca Bianconi
Shoma Uno: He is the music he skates to / Air on the G String
Gabrielle Daleman: Dark Eyes to the sky
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons: On the wings of the Rhapsody in Blue, or are there waves?
Kao Miura: Those eyes / Muerte del Angel
Holly Harris and Jason Chan: Feel the Euphoria
Keegan Messing: A smile that says “I’m home”
Madeline Schizas: I’ve just met a girl named Maria
Camden Pulkinen: Exquisite lines, even in practice
Misato Komatsubara and Tim Koleto: Il dolce suono / The Fifth Element
Rinka Watanabe: Roxanne, to the fingertips / Moulin Rouge!
Shoma Uno: Focus / Gravity
Young You: Summer wind / Vivaldi’s Seasons
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: A story they’ve always wanted to tell / Evita
Yuhana Yokoi: Hungarian Rhapsody
Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe: Butterflies / Unchained Melody
Deniss Vasiljevs: Edges, commitment, dancing hair
Marie-Jade Lauriault and Roman Le Gac: Mambo to the strands
Lindsay Thorngren: Often a Bird
Lucas Britschgi: Another Level
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: Eyes to the sky and total unison
Rika Kihira: Those arms, that openness
Baroque music, such a good, and peaceful, and beautiful home to Shoma Uno
Molly Cesanek and Yehor Yehorov: Feeling / Spartacus
Marie-Jade Lauriault and Roman Le Gac: I see you, Panther / I see you, Inspector
Rinka Watanabe: The laughter of a champion, 2022 Skate Canada champion
Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar: Release
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: Wearing the flags as friends, as protective mantles
Rinka Watanabe: Precious miniature / Jin
Shoma Uno: Just keep me where the light is / Gravity
Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha: Reaching for a dream / Nureyev
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson: Born This Way
Ava Marie Ziegler: Rebirth
Camden Pulkinen: Wearing the winter / Invierno Porteño
Rika Kihira: Daring / The Fire Within
Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii: The genuine smiles of the pairs’ bronze medalists
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons: Vocalizado
Conrad Orzel: Paint It Black
Gabrielle Daleman: Diamonds and Olympic Rings
The (informal) portrait of the ice dance medalists at 2022 Skate Canada
Kao Miura: Evermore / Beauty and the Beast
Rinka Watanabe: Smiles and thrills after a successful skate
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: Do What I Do (if only we could…)
Jimmy Ma: Volcano
Madeline Schizas: She is the Black Swan
Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez: Maria, I’ll never stop saying Maria
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: Smiles and the rising sun / now that’s another photo to frame
Matteo Rizzo: Sono fuori di testa, ma diverso da loro
Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier: All Right Now
Kao Miura: Suspended in time
Niina Petrõkina: Age of Heroes
Shoma Uno: And the air is pink as well
Keegan Messing: Comfortably seated
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson: Vivir Mi Vida
Rika Kihira: As if she were a flame / The Fire Within
Young You: Flirtatious / Otoño Porteño in practice
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: The journey is sweeter in Two
Aleksandr Selevko: A dream / Nocturne in C Minor
Starr Andrews: Yearning for an embrace / Je suis malade
Rika Kihira: Delicacy and trust / Titanic
Rinka Watanabe: Gratitude at the end of a journey in time / Jin
Starr Andrews, Rinka Watanabe and Young You, sharing a different kind of portrait with the flags – a “tradition” born in Skate America, a week earlier
[Photos by C. Nguyen at 2022 Skate Canada in Mississauga
Selection by Inside Skating]
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