Patrick Chan

**whisper** · 6th February 2009, 23:01

PATRICK CHAN

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/gfx...k_chen_380.jpg

Patrick Chan (born December 31, 1990) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2008 & 2009 Canadian Champion and 2007 World Junior silver medalist.

More:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Chan

Stiu ca nu are fani pe aici...dar mie a inceput sa imi placa

**whisper** · 26th February 2009, 22:52

http://patrickchan88888.googlepages.com/
Are si blog personal. Nu l-a mai updatat de prin decembrie dar poate dupa mondiale va mai scrie cate ceva.

**Iulya** · 8th March 2009, 22:21

Reportaj despre Patrick Chan:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ondemand/?p...oId=1031684635

**whisper** · 14th March 2009, 15:26

2009 March > Figure Skating Champion Visits McDonald's

18 year-old Patrick Chan, 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Gold Medalist and Canadian Figure Skating Champion, visited the McDonald’s at Coxwell and Queen where he signed autographs and mingled with fans, even lending a hand behind the scenes serving customers. Canadian Olympic Hopeful for Vancouver 2010, Chan has excelled over the last couple of years claming two national titles, stunning the figure skating world, especially at such a young age. No Canadian men’s figure skater has ever won the Olympic Gold; however, we have four silver medals, two each from Elvis Stojko and Brian Orser. Chan has been the latest Canadian athlete to join the McDonald’s roster of sponsored athletes, which sees its young group of competitors constantly involved in community events. The 2010 Olmpic Games will be the seventh Olympics that McDonald’s has sponsored.

Poze: http://www.snapbeaches.com/display/83651/564/

Everybody loves Patrick (really?^_^.... I know I do)

For all its beauty and grace, figure skating can be one nasty world (Exhibit A: Harding/Kerrigan; Exhibit B: The Salt Lake scandal … we could keep going here, but you get the idea).

That’s what makes the aura around Canada’s Patrick Chan so refreshing and remarkable.

Everybody loves this kid. From his peers to the judges to the journalists, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who’s got a bad word to say about Chan.

To get an idea of just how charming the Toronto native is, witness that he’s even won over my colleague Rosie DiManno, who has a reputation of … well … er … not exactly loving everybody.

One of the most appealing things about Chan (seen above with some fans in Vancouver after the Four Continents Championships) is his guilessness. He is a tough competitor, someone who wants to win every time out, yet there’s also this innocence about him.

Take his approach to competition, for instance.

“I think a lot of people tend to get really gloomy and they get really serious and not really friendly,” said Chan. “I don’t believe in that. I believe that you can still be focused but still be nice, I think. I think to have that kind of mindset really helps going into a competition.

“When we’re on the ice then, yeah, you can say we’re like enemies. But right away when we got off the ice, then we’re just like friends basically. That’s what I really like to think about is that we’re friends. When I leave, I always miss all the guys. I’m not like ‘Yes, I beat them and I won’t see them for another couple of weeks.’ It’s more like ‘Sure I beat them but they’ll be back next time and I’ll still have them as good friends.’”

Proof that nice guys don’t finish last. Let’s enjoy him while we can. An excellent student with designs on university, Chan gives the impression he’s not one of those skaters who’s going to stick around forever

http://thestar.blogs.com/olympics/20...s-patrick.html

Canada's top gold diggers

VANCOUVER 2010: ONE YEAR OUT

Canada's top gold diggers

RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR

The Star's Olympic specialist Randy Starkman takes a look at athletes and teams with gold medal potential for the Vancouver Olympics.Figure skater Chan just one of many bright lights on the strongest team ever for Winter Games

Feb 12, 2009 04:30 AM

Randy Starkman
SPORTS REPORTER

VANCOUVER–Patrick Chan surveys the city skyline from atop Cypress Mountain, a look of awe in his eyes and excitement in his voice.

One year from now at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the precocious 18-year-old Toronto figure skater could own this place.

"I just picture if I did win what would happen to me," said Chan. "How I would be. I'd probably be in tears. ... It'll be such a relief. It's always on my mind.

"Always. Always. Always."

He's not alone. Canada will field its strongest team ever for the Feb. 12-28 Games, a squad that won't quite have the firepower to beat Germany to win the overall medal race, as has been the objective, but should top the record 24 medals won in Turin in 2006.

That albatross of being the only host Olympic nation to never win a gold medal – and to do it twice – should be ripped from this nation's neck.

There's just too much depth in Canada right now for there not to be success. Last week's impressive medal blitz in pre-Olympic tests here and events abroad amply demonstrated that fact.

Consider that two of Canada's top speed skaters, Turin hero Cindy Klassen and sprint star Jeremy Wotherspoon, have been sidelined with serious injuries, and that the powerhouse long-track team has not missed a beat.

Canada went 1-2-3 in a men's World Cup moguls event recently. Defending Olympic moguls champion Jenn Heil and the skier she regards like a little brother, Alex Bilodeau, kept the gold in the family at last weekend's Olympic test event here.

Strength in the ranks was also seen last week at Whistler. After the women struggled in the first World Cup skeleton race, Jon Montgomery and Jeff Pain flexed their muscles to finish 1-3 in the men's skeleton race that same day.

The Canadian men's and women's hockey teams will surely challenge for gold, as will the nation's curlers.

Where Canada couldn't capitalize on home advantage at two previous Olympics, the table has been set this time by an ambitious five-year, $120 million program called Own the Podium, funded by government and Olympic sponsors. It has a separate "top-secret" component, which has been developing things like pilot Pierre Lueders' four-man bobsled, the Whistler Bomber.

No one wants to bomb at these Games – there's too much at stake. The athletes certainly are feeling the pressure and the difference in the end, as is usually the case, will be who is the strongest mentally.

When Chan competed recently at the Canadian championships, his veteran coach Don Laws surveyed the nervous skaters waiting to go out on the ice for warm-up and likened it to waiting on death row.

"It feels like we're all waiting to get executed," said Chan. "We're all nervous. We're all getting sweaty palms and everyone's just quiet. And it was hilarious and everyone laughed because it's so true. We all think about it, we do treat it as if it's life or death."

The switch gets pulled today on the one-year countdown for the greatest winter sporting show on earth. The Canadian team has been working hard to try to cover all the bases, including the all-important psychological one. There have been conferences where the likes of Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, U.S. speed skater Dan Jansen and Jamie Salé and David Pelletier have told the current athletes about their own experiences.

Some athletes have hooked up with mentors. Clara Hughes and some other speed skaters are working with Norwegian legend Johann Olav Koss, while Heil, who is looking to repeat as champion on the opening day of competition here next February, is working with this country's only individual repeat Olympic champion, speed skater Catriona Le May Doan.

There are the young lions, like Chan and a group of 21-year-olds such as Bilodeau and snowboarders Jeff Batchelor of Oakville and Matt Morison of Burketon, Ont., near Oshawa, winners of silver and bronze medals at the recent world championships.

Then there's the veteran presence of Lueders and Hughes, skeleton racer Pain, a silver medallist in Turin, and freestyle aerialist Steve Omischl, looking for Olympic gold to match his world and World Cup overall titles.

They're all testing their limits, looking for every edge en route to next year's Games. Omischl, for his part, is working on a jump he hopes none of his competitors can match.

"I can always go back, but if I don't push now I'll never go forward," he said. "That's what it comes down to." Or as Chan puts it: "A goal's not to be achieved really easily."

Heil certainly knows that, having spent all of last season rebuilding her body for the challenge ahead.

"I love to be in the start gate," she said. "I love to compete. It comes back to the same thing: I love having that moment where I have to try and lay it all out. Again those little details. You want to do everything you can to make sure they fall in place. You don't know if they will. That's the excitement of it."

http://www.thestar.com/article/586335

**whisper** · 14th March 2009, 15:29

Scuze pentru postul consecutiv, dar am gasit un articol si pe blogul sau

http://patrickchan88888.blogspot.com/

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Hi everyone!
Well it has been quite a season so far with ups and downs. But I must tell you that so far I have had the most fun thus far after coming back from a great skate at the nationals and a great skate at the Four Continents in Vancouver. Four Continents was an eventful and great learning opportunity. Maybe some of you didn't know, but the Four Continents was an official testing event for the Olympic games in less then a year. It is required for each venue, of each sport, to hold an event as if it were the Olympic games. This means that all of the setup inside, (change rooms, where the media will be, etc.) was identical to what it will be in a year. It was awesome because I got a chance to get comfortable with how things were, during the whole week. I was actually uncomfortable at the beginning with how it was, but by the end it was great. I'm now in Toronto, and not in Florida. I've had to come back home because I had to finish my last year of school and finally graduate! So this also means I've applied to university and I am planning to start next year. But who knows, I might put it on hold since it is going to be a very important Olympic year. Anyways, I've been taking it easy since Four Continents so I can allow myself to come down before I build myself back up for the World Championships. I have a feeling this will be an awesome experience, especially since it is in L.A.
I wish all of you the very best and thanks for visiting my website!

Patrick
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

**Iulya** · 22nd March 2009, 19:38

'He's so good'
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 9:55 PM ET
By Beverley Smith, The Globe and Mail

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/figure-ska...tml?cid=rssctv

His name is whispered fearfully in Europe, in Japan - everywhere there is figure skating in fact.

And although 18-year-old Canadian Patrick Chan finished ninth in his debut at the world championships last year, he's better than a dark horse to win the 2009 event next week in Los Angeles, despite his youth.

"He's so good," said last year's world champion Jeffrey Buttle. "I really think he has the potential to win this year, even. I think his skating skills and quality of skating are head and shoulders above everyone."

Although he doesn't do a quad, Chan makes up for it in many other ways and picks up points that others leave on the table. Few come close to matching his on-the-edge footwork, for example. Aside from some ice dancers, Chan is the only international figure skater to achieve a level four of difficulty - the highest level - in footwork this season.

And he's done it three times.

Chan received a level four for his circular footwork in the long program at Skate Canada. And the judges awarded level fours for his footwork in both the short and long programs at the Four Continents championships in Vancouver last month.

Level four footwork is worth more in points toward the final mark than level three. Required are immediate changes of direction, with complex turns and quick steps following each other. When the quick-footed Buttle won the world championship a year ago, he got level threes for footwork sequences.

On top of that, judges are giving Chan bonus points for executing these difficult elements. At the Four Continents, he earned a few bonus marks of plus 3 - the highest possible bonus and rarely given - for those steps. A plus 3 is basically equivalent to a perfect 6.0 under the old judging system.

In Vancouver, Chan discovered his showmanship during the footwork routines helped him get the big marks. Since winning the Four Continents, he's altered his footwork slightly to give him more breaks.

The Four Continents did not include European skaters, who are led by 2007 world champion Brian Joubert of France, winner of this year's European championships in Helsinki. But Chan has already defeated Joubert this year, on his home soil, at the Eric Bompard Trophy in Paris.

"Sure, I beat them all," Chan said. "If you look at it in an optimistic way, it pretty much means I can be Olympic champion or world champion.

"But really, all of us are capable of winning the world championships and the Olympics - it's whoever can perform on that day," he said modestly. "It's very hard to predict anything and to think I'm top of the world. We're really all on top of the world. ... Everyone is at the same level."

Chan and Joubert met again at the Grand Prix final, but Joubert withdrew after the short program, and Chan's triple Axel gave him problems. But Chan has been on a roll ever since, even improving his triple Axel to the extent that a judge gave him a bonus mark of plus 3 in the short program at Four Continents.

But comparing Chan and Joubert? They are polar opposites.

Chan doesn't do a quad yet. Joubert lives to do quads. He would far rather do quads than other elements, such as footwork and spins, and they have deteriorated as a result. Currently, Joubert is leaving marks on the table by not focusing on them. Chan, on the other hand, is maximizing his points.
In 2008, when Joubert lost the world championship to Buttle - the master of detail - the French skater was earning only level twos for his spins. And these spins weren't getting high bonus marks.

He lost the world championship when his quad went awry. Joubert planned three but tried only one quad.

This year, Joubert's quad has been uncertain. He can be dynamic when all is going well, but he seems to be all at sixes and sevens this season. There's an appearance of unhappiness and unease about him.

In recent weeks, Joubert enlisted Swiss wonder spinner Lucinda Ruh for help. Ruh is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for pulling off the longest spin in history - 115 rotations without a pause.

Others in the hunt

Nobunari Oda, Japan
More of a Joubert type with strong jumps, but lands them with a soft knee. His new, frenetic, fast-paced choreography camouflages his skating skills and edge quality. He is hungry after missing a season.

Jeremy Abbott, U.S.
He's more like Chan than any of the others, with a dance-like style and skillful use of the blade edge. Forget all about his sixth-place finish in the free skate at the Four Continents championships. He was clearly ill.

Takahiko Kozuka, Japan
Like Abbott, he's had a breakthrough year this year. He's stylish and beautiful to watch, with a natural touch on the ice and an ease of movement. He rarely looks up into the audience and has more work to do on showmanship.

Yannick Ponsero, France
Also in a breakthrough year, he was only 18th at the world championships last year. This season, he has won the national title (where Joubert didn't compete) and the long program at the European championships over Joubert. He led after the short program at Skate Canada in Ottawa, using bold technique and strong edges.

Tomas Verner, Czech Rep.
A stylish skater, Verner is also becoming known for his meltdowns in competition. The 2008 European champion was fourth at the 2007 world championships. At the worlds last year, he was fourth after the short program, but dropped drastically to 20th in the free, for a 15th-place overall finish. He was roaring along in second place at this year's Europeans, but disappointed again in the free skate to drop to sixth. He still wants a world medal and says he's going for it.

Evan Lysacek, United States
The former U.S. champion and two-time world bronze medalist struggled earlier this year but redeemed himself at the Four Continents championships in Vancouver with a bronze.

How to earn extra marks on a footwork sequence

Each element has an assigned base value. Officials assign a level of difficulty for each element (other than jumps) ranging from level one (basic) to level four (most difficult).

Level one is worth a base value of 1.8 points. Level two is worth 2.3 points. Level three is worth 3.3 points. Level four is worth 3.9 points.

To achieve a level four in footwork: five different kinds of turns (changes done immediately) and three different types of steps all executed at least once in both directions - and quickly.

In addition, skaters may earn bonus marks for how well they execute the element, but if they make mistakes, they may also suffer penalty marks. The marks for execution range from -3 (failed) to +3 (superbly done). Marks of -3 are seen often. Marks of +3 are rare.

**Iulya** · 24th March 2009, 18:13

CHAN RESPONDS TO FRENCH SKATER'S CRITICISM OVER LACK OF QUAD

LOS ANGELES - Patrick Chan would prefer that Brian Joubert does his talking on the ice.

The Toronto skater fired back Monday over criticism from Joubert, the former world champion from France, at the lack of quad jumps in male figure skating.

"I think Joubert is constantly, always complaining," Chan told reporters after practice Monday at the Staples Center. "Because he never has anything else to say."

Joubert and the 18-year-old Chan are expected to battle for the men's title at the world figure skating championships that begin Tuesday.

Joubert told the Chicago Tribune recently that he considers American Evan Lysacek his biggest challenge because the U.S. skater has a quad in his program. Chan doesn't have a quad, yet the score he earned in winning the ISU Four Continents last month in Vancouver was the highest in the world this season.

"I am very disappointed other men do not try them," Joubert said. "With the new system, you have to be clean, so people make it clean but simple.

"For the future of the sport, we must continue to try quads. In 2002, some skaters did three quads and now (most) think it is difficult to do one, especially in the short program."

Joubert plans a quad in the short program and could attempt up to three in the long.

Chan has two triple Axels in his long program, and traditionally earns high marks for his footwork, spins and overall presentation.

"Yes, okay, fine, men are doing worse according to (Joubert)," Chan said. "But if you're going to say, let's all do quads, then he better have three quads in his program and do them good. Or else he has nothing else to say.

"He just says that because he just wants to have an excuse."

Chan wasn't concerned he may have threw fuel on the fire when the two skaters take to the ice.

"I kind of dug myself a grave, huh? We'll see," Chan said. "If he's mad at me he's mad at me. What am I going to do?"

Chan probably doesn't have to worry, as Joubert didn't seem bothered by the comments in the least.

"No, I don't care," the Frenchman said after his final practice late Monday night. "... I can understand that figure skating means not only quads and jumps. It's everything - choreography, skating, spins, footwork. But I think for the sport, for the audience, for the judges, it's great to see a quad jump."

Joubert won the 2007 world championships, but finished runner-up to Canada's Jeffrey Buttle last year in Sweden. Buttle also didn't have a quad in his program.

"It's the total package, the spins and the footwork," Chan said. "Obviously (Joubert) needs to be focused on things other than just the jumps. I think he can do better in his performance. He can do better in the footwork. He can do better in the spins, for sure."

Joubert complained after losing to Buttle last year.

"Right after the results, I was very disappointed," Joubert said at the time "And I am still disappointed because Jeffrey did the perfect competition, he made no mistakes, but he didn't try the quad jump."

Chan called it poor sportsmanship.

"I mean, Tiger (Woods) is not going to say (Mike) Weir sucks because he can't shoot as good as I do, right? Just play a fair game. You don't talk behind people's backs like he did at worlds," Chan said.

"He's a nice guy to me. But I think when he's on the ice and he's got all the cameras around him, he changes personality, which is kind of bad. I think you should be yourself basically, in front the cameras."

Chan has said he'll work on his quad over the summer and hopes to have one in his program for the 2010 Olympics.

http://www.tsn.ca/figure_skating/story/?id=272432

**whisper** · 24th March 2009, 21:37

Multumesc Iulya!

Patrick Chan would prefer that Brian Joubert does his talking on the ice.

Sunt de acord!

Nobunari Oda, Japan
More of a Joubert type with strong jumps, but lands them with a soft knee. His new, frenetic, fast-paced choreography camouflages his skating skills and edge quality. He is hungry after missing a season.

Sper ca nu ii e chiar asa de foame, totusi

Takahiko Kozuka, Japan
Like Abbott, he's had a breakthrough year this year. He's stylish and beautiful to watch, with a natural touch on the ice and an ease of movement. He rarely looks up into the audience and has more work to do on showmanship.

Asta-i adevarul..dar e la inceput

"I am very disappointed other men do not try them," Joubert said. "With the new system, you have to be clean, so people make it clean but simple.

"For the future of the sport, we must continue to try quads. In 2002, some skaters did three quads and now (most) think it is difficult to do one, especially in the short program."

Joubert plans a quad in the short program and could attempt up to three in the long.

Chan has two triple Axels in his long program, and traditionally earns high marks for his footwork, spins and overall presentation.

Zici ca se vorbeste despre Lambiel..minus partea cu triplu axel

**whisper** · 3rd April 2009, 00:56

Grandfather's death delays Chan's return home
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 12:27 PM ET
CTVOlympics.ca staff

Patrick Chan's return to Toronto from the World Figure Skating Championships has been delayed due to the death of his paternal grandfather.

Chan's grandfather died in South Bend, Indiana right after his grandson skated to a silver medal on Thursday night. He was told of Patrick's achievement before he died. The grandfather was a long-time smoker and had been very ill.

The Chan family will be travelling to South Bend from L.A. to be with their relatives today.

The airport greeting arranged for today to welcome home Chan, 18, has been cancelled.

Sursa: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/figure-ska...ns+return+home

RIP!

**Iulya** · 29th April 2009, 21:24

Patrick Chan quickly rises to top of men's figure skating
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/sp...figure-skating

**irinaidu** · 30th April 2009, 00:50

noroc ca nu am mancat nimic inainte de a citi reportajul mi-as fi pierdut bunatate de masa tarzie in noapte. plus ca simt cum ma cuprinde diabetul de la atata zahar cat era in articolul asta.

**emiii03** · 6th August 2009, 15:56

dedicatie speciala pt Whis, dar sa va uitati ca e mortal
Chan face reclama la Cheerios
http://qml.quiettouch.com/files/publ...utOut_0708.mpg

**whisper** · 13th September 2009, 01:52

Un articol nou:
http://www.canada.com/sports/Chan+le...505/story.html

Asked to name the major gold-medal threats in February, he listed reigning world champ Evan Lysacek of the U.S., former titleholder Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland, Japanese skaters Daisuke Takahashi and Nobunari Oda …

“Not Joubert?” someone asked.

“Oh, yeah, I forgot,” he said, clearly abashed. “Wasn’t intentional, I swear to God. Brian, for sure.”

Intentionat sau nu ce mai conteaza a uitat sa ii mentioneze pe Plushy si Brian(sa nu mai zic ca nu l-a amintit nici pe Kozuka

). pai cu astia 2 se va lupta el pentru medalia de aur.

**irinaidu** · 13th September 2009, 15:12

well, v-am zis ca nu il suport pe chan dar imi place in a very twisted way ca e such a true bitch !!!! dar sa fim seriosi cu nobunari ca major threat !!!

**whisper** · 15th September 2009, 01:44

Ma intrebam si eu de ce Oda e pe lista...

O fi stiind el ceva.

**Iulya** · 15th October 2009, 17:46

Patrick Chan has withdrawn from the ISU Grand Prix Event Rostelecom Cup in Russia.
Due to a tear in his left Lateral Gastrocnemius muscle, Chan will miss the competition in Moscow taking place October 22 – 25.
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/figure-ska...sid=17415.html