{"id":15953,"date":"2018-05-16T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2018-05-16T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:05:36","slug":"stars-on-ice-shines-light-on-the-art-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/05\/16\/stars-on-ice-shines-light-on-the-art-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars On Ice shines light on the art of sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Figure skating is the only sport in the world that can make the act of placing your face in someone else\u2019s crotch seem elegant. That was part of one of the many precise, artistic moves on display at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre Tuesday night when Stars On Ice rolled through town, and\u2014for the most part\u2014it worked.<\/p>\n

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir in action during a Stars on Ice performance (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canadian Olympic duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir displayed sassy, devilish takes on intimacy, and didn\u2019t shy away from their quiet side, as well. These are well-rounded skaters and it\u2019s clear why they are regarded as two of the country\u2019s best: they bring the ice to life.<\/p>\n

Olympic bronze medalists Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford balanced sheer strength and meditative precision. Radford tossed Duhamel for multiple perfectly landed twirls; he did some himself while holding his partner upside down with extended arms (causing the woman beside me to exclaim, \u201cHoly crap!\u201d). These two continually defied the laws of gravity with sport and creativity.<\/p>\n

The sound of blades piercing fresh ice could be heard as Olympic silver medalist Patrick Chan gave us his emotional, heartfelt take on Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cHallelujah.\u201d His body language fit immaculately with the mood of the ballad; he received a standing ovation, and there\u2019s no doubt that he nailed this one.<\/p>\n

Fellow silver medalist Elvis Stojko\u2019s solo number to Nickelback\u2019s \u201cSomeone that You\u2019re With\u201d felt ill-placed and corny, but Stojko did have a couple of redeeming prance-like leaps that were a nice surprise. He did well considering what the song\u2014which was a strange one to skate to\u2014gave him to work with.<\/p>\n

An awkward half-time presentation by World Vision Canada put a bit of damper on the evening, but the skaters came back and finished the night in style, decked out in white while out on the ice. Canada has some of the best skaters in the world, and the night showed that, illustrating the art of sport with pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Figure skating is the only sport in the world that can make the act of placing your face in someone else\u2019s crotch seem elegant. That was part of one of the many precise, artistic moves on display at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre Tuesday night when Stars On Ice rolled through town, and\u2014for the most part\u2014it worked. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}