“For me, it really comes down to the way I feel when I’m skating with Vanessa.
Radford and James are both living in Montreal and being coached by Julie Marcotte and Ian Connolly. They originally thought their chemistry could lead to a show-partnership, but ultimately Radford and James decided to take the plunge and return to elite competition. Radford and James felt they had something special together, so they took it one step further and met up in Montreal a few weeks later to hit the ice again. But he was intrigued after rehearsing with James in Toronto last November during the filming of Battle of the Blades. After winning a silver medal in the team event in 2014 in Sochi, Radford captured a gold in the same event in 2018 Pyeongchang and a bronze in pairs with Duhamel. Radford doesn’t have anything left to prove. We’ve seen people come back, but as a team or as a team that’s already accomplished quite a bit (together), but we’ll be the first and why not? We’re gonna go for it.” “The only thing I’d say that’s an obstacle is figuring out how each other compete and making sure we work together to make sure we’re both comfortable and in the zone when competition comes… It hasn’t been done. I do believe in us a lot,” said James in a Zoom interview. I think we’re the first ones to ever attempt it and we’ll be the first to ever accomplish it.
Graham Hughes / Canadian Press filesįigure skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford display their Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter medals in 2018. While most teammates are attached to each other’s hip for years before making it to the world’s biggest stage, Radford and James, who’ve only been working together in Montreal since last month, will have less than a year to prepare for nationals in January and earn the right to be one of Canada’s two pairs that qualify for Beijing. The pair hopes to represent Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Radford, 36, a two-time world champion and three-time Olympic medallist who retired in 2018 with his longtime partner Meagan Duhamel, announced last week he will be returning to competitive skating and partnering up with 33-year-old Vanessa James of Scarborough, Ont. Winnipeg-born figure skater Eric Radford is coming out of retirement to attempt something that’s never been done. This article was published (534 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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