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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2017 20:50:23 GMT
She can’t remember a time she didn’t love the spotlight, and it’s a big reason she has excelled in a sport where “you’re literally in a fish bowl … and the world is watching.”  The emergence of the two ends a drought for Canadian women, who — other than Rochette and Elizabeth Manley before her — have largely skated in the shadow of the men, ice dancers and pairs teams.  Osmond and Daleman are the product of a new approach in Canadian skating, which long held the belief that teaching triple jumps at a young age could jeopardize a skater’s health as they were growing.  “What we started to see across the world was these young skaters coming up doing all the triples at a young age, at 13, 14, so when they went through their growth period, they didn’t lose the stuff,” said Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada’s high performance director. “Whereas our skaters … after all the growth and maturity, were then trying to learn it, which was much harder.” |
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2017 20:58:51 GMT
Marystown native Kaetlyn Osmond has won the right to call herself one of the best figure skaters in the world, and her parents couldn't be prouder.  Osmond won a silver medal Friday in the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, held in Helsinki, Finland. She skated last in the women's free skate, earning a score of 142.15 for her long program.  Her parents Jeff Osmond and Jackie Osmond were in the arena to see it all happen. "It's absolutely amazing. We're so ecstatic, so happy and so proud of her," Jackie Osmond told CBC's Here & Now just after the medal ceremony. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2017 20:34:11 GMT
 Fresh off a silver medal at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, Kaetlyn Osmond is already looking ahead to next year. It's a complete turnaround after she suffered an injury that she thought had ended her career.  "I'm so happy that this season has gone the way it has," the Marystown native told CBC Sports on Monday evening in Edmonton, where she lives and trains.  'I said right then and there that I was never stepping on the ice again.' - Kaetlyn Osmond "To get a silver medal, I'm beyond excited. It's given me so much motivation and so much excitement to train for the upcoming year, and I can't wait." |
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2017 20:04:28 GMT
 Going into this world championship, Osmond was not thinking about winning a medal or about where she would place at all, despite her successful season. “I was going into worlds thinking I finally wanted to feel proud of how I skated,” she said. “I have had a season of highs all year, so when I went into worlds, I just wanted to end on that same feeling and to feel the best I had felt all season.” Don’t forget, it’s the first time Osmond got to experience a full season. That idea excited her. She just wanted to feel proud. When she skated the way she hoped and it meant she won a silver medal, Osmond said: “Honestly, it still doesn’t feel believable.” What is real is hard to explain. Her silver medal is entirely motivating for anything she does from now on. “After I broke my leg, I thought my career was done,” she said. “And the competitions that came afterwards, didn’t go well. It put so much doubt in my head. And I questioned that I would never be able to perform at my best ever again. I hated going home from competitions, feeling like I didn’t compete. “And I felt lost every time. So this season, each time I went out and skated, I forgot about the feeling that I wanted to find and just focused on finding the love of the sport again. And each time I went out there, that’s what I felt. I felt like that empty piece of me kept getting filled up and filled up. And at the end of my long program [in Helsinki], it was finally like I felt full again.”  She can’t explain the feeling at the moment in which she took her final pose in the free skate. “I just felt like a full human being again,” she said. “It’s something I never realized I felt so lost before that.” Her silver medal will probably find its way into a case at home full of her other silver medals she won during the season. Aside from an Olympic team silver medal, Osmond hadn’t won silver medals before, she said. “I think I’ll have a box of silvers,” she said. Right now, the shiny world medal is in Newfoundland, her home spot. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2017 20:13:56 GMT
 Blood lactate analysis during interval training ! #athlete #training #summerfitness |
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