Canada announced the list of figure skating team members participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics

On January 9, local time, Canada announced the list of members of the figure skating team participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and 13 team members will participate in ice dance, ice dance free dance, double figure skating, men's and women's figure skating, pair free skating, single free skating and other competitions.

Veteran duo Vanessa James and Eric Radford were selected. The duo achieved their best record at the Canadian Pair Skating Grand Prix this season.

Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro won gold at the Canadian Championships on the 8th, and the duo was also selected for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Keegan Messing and Roman Sadovsky will compete in men's singles figure skating and women's singles figure skating, respectively.

Madeline Schizas also qualified for the women's figure skating competition. She said in a press release: "Participating in the Winter Olympics is such a dream. I watched the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since then, it's been a dream of mine and I'm glad I'm selected. ”

World bronze medalists in ice dance, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, will compete for the ice dance spot at the Winter Olympics. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen, who won silver at the Canadian Championships on the 8th, and bronze medalists Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, were also selected for the Canadian team.

Poisier said, "For us, this is really a moment of honour. We had the privilege of representing Canada at the 2018 Olympics and are now qualifying for another Olympic Games, which is really special. ”