Nguyễn Nam Vô Địch World Junior Figure Skating 2014
Một em nhỏ Việt Nam tại thành phố Toronto đoạt giải trượt băng nghệ thuật thiếu nhi
Xin gởi tới quý niên trưởng và quý bạn Bản
Tin mới nhất về một em bé trai Canada gốc Việt người Toronto vừa đoạt
huy chương vàng cuộc tranh tài trượt băng nghệ thuật thiếu nhi thế giới được tổ
chức tại Sofia (Bảo Gia Lợi) để cùng chia sẻ niềm vui chung.
Em Nam Nguyễn nầy đã mang vinh quang về chẳng những cho đất nước Canada mà còn cho cộng đồng Việt Nam tại Toronto và cả cho hải ngoại.
Thân ái,
Nguyễn Tấn Phát
Video màn Nguyễn Nam giựt giải vô địch
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Sky is the limit for newly-crowned world
junior champion Nam Nguyen
By Marty Henwood
As far as fleeting moments go, Nam Nguyen’s first –
and to date, only - encounter with three-time world champion Patrick Chan was
about as brief as they come.
Two years have passed since Nguyen, then a pint-sized
13-year-old competing as a senior for the first time at the national
championships in Moncton, N.B., had a chance encounter with Chan in a hallway
following practice.
“He asked me where the clock was,” the newly-crowned
world junior men’s champion told reporters this week.
Cue the laughter.
“It was around the corner.”
With a world junior title now in his back pocket,
thanks to a pair of dazzling programs in Sofia, Bulgaria, the skating prodigy –
also the youngest Canadian to win national titles at the juvenile, pre-novice,
novice and junior levels – is creating headlines of his own these days. There
are even some inevitable whispers, as premature as they may be, that Nguyen
could one day be Chan’s heir apparent.
“Some people say I might be the next Patrick Chan, and
I think that’s a huge honour,” he adds with a wide smile.
“He’s the three-time world champion and Olympic silver
medallist. That’s amazing.”
“When I saw the score, it was unbelievable, that’s the
highest score I’ve ever (had) internationally,” said Nam, referring to the
217.06 total score he posted last weekend.
“When I sat down, there were so many things going on
in my head. I saw the score and thought, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe it.’”
Less than a week after claiming the world junior title
in Bulgaria, Nguyen will be back on a plane Saturday when he makes the trek
across the Pacific for next week’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships in
Tokyo. Making the trip with him will be Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu, the gold
medallist from the Sochi Winter Olympics, and world bronze medallist Javier
Fernandez of Spain. Nguyen trains with Hanyu and Fernandez at the Toronto
Cricket Club under two-time Olympic silver medallist and 1987 world champion
Brian Orser.
If recent history is any indication, Orser is becoming
the coach with the Midas touch. Not only does he have Hanyu, Fernandez and Nam
in his stable, but Orser also coached Yuna Kim to women’s gold at the Vancouver
Winter Olympics in 2010.
Orser’s been around long enough to know with the Sochi
Games now in the rear-view mirror, it will likely signal a changing of the
guard in men’s skating.
“This is going to be the new guard,” said Orser,
referring to the top finishers last weekend in Bulgaria. “The top four or five
- these are the guys we’re going to see down the road.
"There is a change now happening and it’s
happening sooner than anybody thought.”
In Sofia, Nguyen skated a near-flawless free program
punctuated with a pair of double Axels, but when he makes the jump to seniors
–whenever that may be – Orser and Nguyen know they will have to up the ante. In
the coming months, they plan on working on the quad before rolling it out next
season.
But Nguyen’s handlers insist he isn’t on any sort of
fast track.
“Winning a junior world title is not the end - it’s
the start,” reasons Skate Canada High Performance Director Mike Slipchuk.
“I think this is a big building block for Nam.”
Stealing the show seems to be in the kid’s DNA. Four
years later, and people are still talking about Nguyen’s memorable cameo in the
gala at the Vancouver Olympics. At recent national championships, Nguyen has
won over the crowd with his ear-to-ear grin and infectious enthusiasm.
But Orser says that persona needed a makeover to
introduce a big-boy image, and not only because Nguyen has grown almost a foot,
give or take, in the past year and a half.
“I told him ‘OK, enough of the cute factor’,” reasons
Orser.
"It was fun and it was cute, and everybody was
like, ‘Oh my god, he’s so cute.’ But now you’ve got to be a big boy and you’ve
got to skate like that. There has to be maturity.’”
Nguyen says Orser helps keep his feet planted firmly
on the ground, and that isn’t going to change with the world junior title.
But 15-year-olds are allowed to dream, and this kid
isn’t any different.
“I want to be the Olympic champion, 2018,” he says,
eyes lighting up. “I want to be the first Canadian men’s champion for the
Olympics.
“That would be cool.”
Cover Photo: Masaharu Sugawara
*****
Canada AM: Up against the men of figure skating
Fourteen-year-old Nam Nguyen dishes about testing his skills
against the men ahead of the World Junior Figure Skating Championship.
*****
Nam Nguyen, 2014 Junior World
Champion
Nam Nguyen is the new Junior Men’s World Champion! He earned a
personal best 217.06 points to take first place at the event in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
Roman Sadovsky also earned a personal best at Junior Worlds. His
score of 178.44 points put him in 13th position.
In the Junior Pairs event, Mary Orr & Phelan Simpson
finished 6th with a personal best 132.02 points.
In Junior Dance, Mackenzie Bent & Garrett MacKeen earned
117.81 points, finishing in 12th position.
Congratulations to all Ontario athletes for their amazing
accomplishments!
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Nam Nguyen growing into role as future of
Canadian figure skating
After winning at the
world junior championship on the weekend, the 15-year-old has his sights set on
expanding his repertoire.
VICTOR FRAILE / GETTY IMAGES
Nam Nguyen, 15, has had success
at every level so far; his coach says he could very well represent the future
of the sport.
Nam Nguyen was 11 years old when he performed in the figure
skating exhibition gala at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a pint-sized phenom who
charmed the crowd in his checked pants and goofy big round glasses.
His role represented the future of figure skating.
Nguyen
met with reporters Tuesday fresh off his recent victory at the world junior championships, and said he couldn’t have imagined back then that the
future would arrive so quickly.
“It is crazy,” Nguyen said. “I was on the Olympic ice just
performing, doing the gala, and I think from there a lot of people took notice
of me. And from then until now, I trained really hard and I accomplished a lot
of things in that time.
“And now I’m the junior world champion. Talking to you.”
The 15-year-old from Toronto reeled off triple Axels with
ease at practice Tuesday at the Toronto Cricket Club. He’s grown six inches or
more in the past year, and carries himself with a maturity that wasn’t there
even earlier this season.
Saturday
in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nguyen laid down two clean programs, and landed two triple
Axels in his free skate — a jump that has tripped up even Patrick
Chan a few times — en route to claiming the world junior crown.
He won despite being three years younger than the maximum allowable age for
world juniors.
“When I saw the score, it was unbelievable, that’s the
highest score I’ve ever gotten internationally … when I sat down, there were so
many things going on in my head — ‘I skated awesome’ and things like that. I
saw the score and thought, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe (it).’”
What’s been a whirlwind season will continue next week when
Nguyen competes for Canada at the world (senior) championships in Tokyo.
More and more these days, Nguyen gets compared to Chan, who
isn’t competing next week.
“Some people say I may be the next Patrick Chan, and I think
that’s a huge honour. He’s a three-time world champion, Olympic silver
medalist, and that’s amazing,” Nguyen said.
Nguyen started figure skating when he was 5, and like Chan,
he originally took it up to improve his skating skills for hockey.
“I like to jump and spin rather than chase a puck,” he said.
He won national titles in juvenile, pre-novice, novice and
junior, becoming the youngest Canadian to do so with each one.
Nguyen
then moved from Vancouver to Toronto in the summer of 2012 to work with Brian
Orser, the two-time Olympic silver medalist who guided Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu to Olympic gold in Sochi and
Yuna Kim to the Olympic women’s title in Vancouver.
“I told him (when he arrived), ‘OK, enough of the cute
factor.’ It was fun and it was cute, and everybody was like, ‘Oh my god, he’s
so cute,’” Orser said after practice Tuesday. “’But now you’ve got to be a big
boy, and you’ve got to skate like that, and there has to be maturity.’ So we
started developing that.
“Also in his jumping ... He had these spindly little jumps,
which was enough to get him through novice and junior, but when you’re in
senior you’ve got to have some big jumps and get some air time, and cover the
ice, and speed.”
Nguyen only mastered his triple Axel in January. His sudden
growth spurt had proved problematic — he went from 4-foot-7 to 5-5 in just over
a year, he said.
“It’s hard for the athlete, it’s hard for some of the people
around him, parents, etc., to understand that process. And you have to just dig
deep and push through it, because he grew a lot,” Orser said
“When you’re trying to do a sport that requires balance and
co-ordination, and you’re all of a sudden thrown an extra half a foot to your
height, plus he matured and his body is changing ... But he was persistent and
patient and he just kept pushing through.”
Nguyen and Orser are already thinking ahead to quad jumps.
They’ll work on it during the spring and summer, and will hopefully add the
four-revolution jump to his arsenal next season.
“He gets a little bit scared of some of these new jumps and
he kind of surprises himself, like ‘That wasn’t so bad.’ It’s like when you
jump off the 10-metre (diving board), and you stand there, and then you jump,
and then the next thing you’re climbing back up again, because it was so much
fun,” Orser said. “He’s a little bit scared of the quads, but he knows now he
has to do them.”
Orser said Nguyen is the type of skater who, once he masters
a jump, he rarely misses it — hence his ability to reel off a couple dozen
clean triple Axels in practice Tuesday.
“It will be kind of hit and miss, he’ll be struggling with
it, and all of a sudden when he gets it, he gets it. Like the Axel. It was a
long road to get it. But when he got it, he got it,” Orser said.
Nguyen arrived at practice Tuesday after two hours of class
at Northview Heights Secondary School. He’s taking only two classes this
semester, and did the same thing in the fall semester in case he qualified for
the Sochi Olympic team.
Both of Nguyen’s parents are from Vietnam. His dad Sony is
an engineer while his mom Thu is a business analyst. His 9-year-old sister Kim
also skates out of the Toronto Cricket Club.
Orser said it’s not too bold of a statement to call Nguyen
the future of the sport.
“This is going to be the new guard. The top four or five (at
world juniors), these are the guys we’re going to see down the road,” the coach
said. “There’s a change now happening. It’s happening sooner than anybody
thought. For him now to go to worlds as the world junior champion, it’s going
to put him at another level, and I think he’ll skate up to it.”
Orser said he’s seen Nguyen’s confidence and maturity grow
as quickly as his physical stature, and when they departed for the world junior
championships, the goal suddenly went from finishing in the top five to winning
a medal or even finishing atop the podium.
“From the second he arrived in Sofia, every single practice
was amazing and consistent and strong,” Orser said. “And I could see the judges
all watching him and I could see all the other guys scrambling and falling, and
messy, and he was just every day, every practice, organized and in control and
he took ownership.”
Orser is proud to have a Canadian doing so well on the heels
of his success with Hanyu at the Sochi Olympics. Orser also coaches European
champion Javier Fernandez of Spain.
“It feels good,” Orser said. “I know I get a little
criticism for not having any Canadians. But all these guys have all come to me,
including Nam, so I’m just kind of running a business here, doing my job.
“But I’m proud I have a Canadian jacket to wear and I’m
showing some success with some Canadian skaters as well, this one in
particular. He has a bright future, and I wear the jacket with pride.”
Orser said training with the likes of Hanyu, who won Olympic
gold in Sochi at just 19, and Fernandez, has helped Nguyen immensely.
“When he sees the guys, how they work, how they are
responsible, and just the technical stuff, the height, speed, charisma, some of
that will rub off on you.”
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High hopes for Canadian
figure skater Nam Nguyen
FIRST
POSTED: TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014 07:52 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY,
MARCH 18, 2014 07:56 PM EDT
Coach Brian Orser keeps a close eye
on world junior figure skating champion Nam Nguyen in Toronto yesterday.
(Michael Peake/Toronto Sun)
As a crowd watched
figure skater Nam Nguyen go through his paces at the Toronto Cricket, Skating
and Curling Club on Tuesday, world bronze medallist Javier Fernandez of Spain
walked over to Skate Canada high performance director Michael Slipchuk and
said: ‘You’ve got a champion.”
No kidding. Slipchuk
is feeling pretty good these days about the fact that Canadian skating has yet
another great men’s singles skater in their midst. Nguyen, a 15-year-old
Northview Heights Secondary School student, gave the sport in this country a
major shot in the arm last weekend by winning the men’s singles title at the
world junior championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, with two of the best programs he
has ever skated, featuring a long program that included two triple Axels. For
next season, Nguyen and his coach Brian Orser expect to add a quad.
Of course, there’s no
guarantee that winning a world junior title will translate into huge things on
the senior circuit, but the accomplishment certainly demonstrates that Nguyen
possesses a special talent. Olympic champions Evgeni Plushenko of Russia and
Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan both won world junior titles.
“Winning
a junior world title is not the end, it’s the start,” said Slipchuk. “And I
think this is a big building block for Nam.”
Winning
the world junior title is certainly a feather in Nguyen’s cap, and great news
for Skate Canada, but it also comes as a relief of sorts for Orser. The
two-time Olympic silver medallist and former world champion has had incredible
success in the coaching ranks — coaching Japan’s Yuzuru and Yuna Kim of South
Korea to Olympic golds, and Fernandez to a pair of European titles. But he
hasn’t had any Canadian international stars in his stable at the Cricket Club.
Until now.
“It
feels good,” said Orser. “I know I get a little criticism for not having any
Canadians. But these guys have all come to me, including Nam. I’m just kind of
running the business here and doing my thing. But I’m proud that I have a
Canadian jacket to wear (now) and showing some success with some Canadian
skaters as well.”
Nguyen
hasn’t flown completely below the radar en-route to his world title, winning
Canadian titles at every level other than senior (he finished fifth as a senior
this season). But after a poor start on the junior Grand Prix circuit this
season, there were few indications he was about to make such a major
breakthrough. At a Grand Prix in Gdansk, Poland, in September, Nguyen finished
16th, with 138.87 points. He won the world juniors six months later with a
score 217.06.
“That
was the worst competition of my life,” said Nguyen of Gdansk. “When I got back,
I had time to think about it. Physically I was fine, but mentally there was
something wrong. And at that time I didn’t have my triple Axel.”
Orser
said there was a very good reason why his skater struggled so much earlier in
the season — a huge growth spurt.
“It’s
hard for the athlete and it’s hard for some of the people around him to
understand that process,” Orser said. “You just have to dig deep and push
through it, because he grew a lot. I bet you it was half a foot or more. And
boy, when you’re doing a sport that requires balance and coordination and all of
a sudden you throw in an extra half a foot to your height ... Plus he matured
and his body’s changing. I believe that is what happened through the Grand Prix
season. But he was persistent and patient and he kept pushing through.”
Nguyen
began turning his season around at the Nationals and then the Four Continents
Championship in Taiwan, where he placed 10th in his first senior international.
Now he will represent Canada at the senior world championships later this month
in Saitama, Japan, though Slipchuk is quick to point out that Skate Canada is
not putting any pressure on him, even with three-time world champion Patrick
Chan of Toronto not competing. For better or worse, there have been comparisons
between Chan and Nguyen, who do have quite a bit in common. Both are children
of immigrants (Chan’s parents from Hong Kong, Nguyen’s from Vietnam), both were
born in Ottawa, before calling Toronto home, and both began skating as a means
to improve their hockey prowess. Though the comparisons may be unfair at this
point, Nguyen doesn’t mind.
“I
think that’s a huge honour because he’s the three-time world champion and
Olympic silver medallist, and that’s amazing,” said Nguyen. “The fact that I’m
(considered) the next Patrick Chan is just awesome.”
Nguyen
trains on a daily basis beside Yuzuru and Fernandez at the Cricket Club,
describing that situation as hugely inspiring, though he barely knows Chan,
another one of his heroes.
“The
only time, I’ve ever talked to him was at my first senior nationals (2012 in
Moncton),” said Nguyen. “He asked me where the clock was.”
Did
he know where it was?
“Yeah,
it was around the corner,” added Nguyen, with a laugh.
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Nam Nguyen
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Contents
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1 Career
Career[edit]
From
2007 to 2009, Nguyen won three Canadian national men's titles — Juvenile,
Pre-Novice, and Novice — each time becoming the youngest skater to do so.[1][2] In 2010, he won the bronze medal on the junior
level at the Canadian Championships. Nguyen performed in the exhibition gala at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.[3] The following year at the 2011 Canadian Championships, he became the youngest skater to win the
junior men's title.[4][5][6][7]
In
the 2011–12 season, Nguyen became age-eligible for international junior competition.
He finished 12th in his first Junior Grand Prix event in Riga, Latvia and then won the bronze medal in his
second event in Brasov, Romania. He placed 7th on the senior level at
the2012 Canadian Championships and was assigned to the 2012 World Junior Championships. Nguyen landed his first triple axel in
competition in the preliminary round and qualified for the short program with a
first place finish.[8] He was 18th in the short program and 11th in the
free skate, finishing 13th overall at the event. Joanne McLeod coached him at
the BC Centre of Excellence in Burnaby, British Columbia until the end of the 2011–12 season.[1]
In
the summer of 2012, Nguyen moved to Toronto to work with Brian Orser at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.[9] He won bronze at the 2012 JGP in Turkey and finished 12th at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy. The next season, he placed fourth and 16th at his two JGP events.
At the 2014 World Junior Championships inSofia, Bulgaria, he placed first in both segments and won the gold medal.
Personal life[edit]
Born
in Ottawa, Nam Nguyen lived in Richmond, British Columbia and Burnaby, B.C. from 1999 to 2012,
and then moved to Toronto, Ontario.[3][10] Both of his parents are fromVietnam — his father, Sony, moved to Canada in 1988 and
sponsored his wife, Thu, in 1994.[3] His father is an engineer and his mother works
for a medical software company.[3]His sister, Kim, is six years younger.[10] He is a student at Northview Heights Secondary School.[10]
Programs[edit]
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Air on the G String
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Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
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Canada’s Nam Nguyen takes gold at world junior figure
skating championships
The 15-year-old from Toronto landed two triple Axels to score
144.19 points for his clean long program — a season’s best by almost eight
points.
VICTOR FRAILE / GETTY IMAGES
Canada's Nam Nguyen won gold in
the men's singles event at the world junior figure skating championship on
Saturday.
By: The Canadian Press, Published on Sat Mar 15 2014
SOFIA,
BULGARIA—Nam Nguyen of Canada struck gold in men’s singles at the ISU world
junior figure championships.
The
15-year-old from Toronto landed two triple Axels to score 144.19 points for his
clean long program — a season’s best by almost eight points.
“That was
the best free skate I have ever had,” Nguyen said. “It was the first time I’ve
ever done two triple Axels in one program and I hope to continue to do that.”
Nguyen
led after the short program, and then skating to Bach’s “Air on a G String” and
Fantasia and Fugue” in the free program, Nguyen produced a triple Axel-double
toe, then his second triple Axel, before reeling off six more triple jumps.
“I took
it as a new day. I didn’t really think about what had happened in (Thursday’s
short program). I just told myself to take one element at a time,” Nguyen said.
“Just before I went into my starting position I told myself just to have fun.
This was my third junior worlds so I really didn’t have anything to lose. I
enjoyed it very much.”
The
Canadian scored 217.06 points overall. Russia’s Adian Pitkeev surged from
seventh after the short program to claim the silver with 212.51 points.
American Nathan Chen rose from sixth after the short to capture the bronze
(212.03).
Nguyen is
coached by Canada’s two-time Olympic silver medallist Brian Orser, who also
works with Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan.
“This was
a good event with good skating, and Nam really skated for it to win this
championship,” Orser said.
Nguyen
won’t get much of a breather after his gold-medal performance, as he’s a member
of Canada’s squad for the world senior championships that begin March 24 in
Tokyo.
“I have
to get back to training on Tuesday and I leave for worlds on Saturday, so I
just have to enjoy the moment as much as possible now and when I get back I
focus only on the senior world championships,” Nguyen said.
When
Nguyen was assigned to the senior world team, Orser cautioned his young skater
“not to get ahead of himself.”
“I said
we have to get through junior worlds and do a great job there, and then we
would shift gears after that for worlds. He was really able to do that and I
was proud of him for that,” Orser said.
“He is
really on such a great emotional high to carry him through, so he is just going
to ride this wave. He has had a really busy season with 12 or 13 competitions,
and he has just gotten better and better at each one.”
Canada’s
three-time defending world champion Patrick Chan, who won silver at the
Olympics last month, won’t compete at the world championships.
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NGUYEN WINS MEN'S SHORT AT JUNIOR FIGURE
SKATING WORLDS
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Nam Nguyen of Toronto is in first place in
men's competition after Thursday's short program at the ISU world junior figure
skating championships.
Nguyen, 15, earned 72.87 points with Jin Boyang of China second
at 71.51 and Uno Shoma of Japan third at 70.67.
"The short program felt awesome," said Nguyen, who is
coached by former Canadian skating star Brian Orser. "I was feeling very
relaxed throughout the whole program. I took one element at a time and that
really paid off."
The highlight was landing the triple Axel.
"The triple Axel felt really big," he said. "I
think it was one of the best ones I've ever done, especially in competition. So
it was really good that I was able to deliver it out here."
Nguyen won't change a thing for the free skate.
"I'm looking forward to delivering the same performance and
to just keep doing what I do in practice," he said.
Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., had a personal best short
program and sits 14th.
In pairs, Xiaoyu Yu and Yang Jin of China won the gold medal.
Mary Orr of Brantford, Ont., and Phelan Simpson of Lunenburg,
Sask., were sixth and Tara Hancherow Tisdale, Sask., and Wesley Killing of
Woodstock, Ont., seventh.
In Wednesday's short dance, Madeline Edwards of Port Moody,
B.C., and Zhao Kai Pang of Burnaby, B.C., are fifth, less than a point from
third.
Mackenzie Bent of Uxbridge, Ont., and Garrett MacKeen of Oshawa,
Ont., are ninth.
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OHPSI Figure Skater Nam Nguyen Crowned Junior
World Champion
MARCH 17, 2014
OHPSI Figure Skater
Nam Nguyen Crowned Junior World Champion
Congratulations to
OHPSI athlete Nam Nguyen on winning Gold at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating
Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The 15-year-old from
Toronto landed two triple Axels to score 144.19 points in his free skate,
Nguyen’s season’s best by nearly eight points. His overall score, when combined
with his short program results, was 217.06. Russia’s Adian Pitkeev finished in 2nd
with 212.51 points, while American Nathan Chen captured the bronze with 212.03.
Nguyen is part of
Canadian Sport Institute Ontario’s Ontario High Performance Sport Initiative
(OHPSI) program in partnership with Skate Ontario. The OHPSI program provides Ontario
athletes with leadership, coaching support, sport science and sport medicine
services, equipment and technology, and facility access to create an optimal
Daily Training Environment.
Other OHPSI figure
skaters competing at the World Junior Championships include Roman Sadovsky, who
finished 13th in the men’s event; Mary Orr and Phelan Simpson, who finished 6th
in the pairs event; and Mackenzie Bent and Garrett MacKeen, who came 12th in
ice dance.
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Next-up, Nguyen is
headed to the World Senior Championships beginning March 24th in Tokyo.
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