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Dubé and Davison out of Skate Canada
Canadian pair champions Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison have pulled out of the Skate Canada international Grand Prix, after Davison hurt his right knee while training last Wednesday.
Davison’s knee locked up on him while attempting some jumps, causing him a “lot of discomfort” over the weekend, said Michael Slipchuk, director of high performance for Skate Canada. Davison underwent an MRI over the weekend.
“This is obviously not the way we wanted to start our season,” Davison said. “Our training has been going well and we were looking forward to competing at home at Skate Canada.”
Later on Monday, he will see team physician Dr. Bob Brock to deal with a prognosis and method of treatment.
“He didn’t do anything crazy,” Slipchuk said. “It’s one of those things.”
The withdrawal of Dube, of Drummondville, Que.., and Davison of Huntsville, Ont., is a further blow to the event, which also recently lost Olympic ice-dancing champions Tessa Virtue of London, Ont., and Scott Moir of Ilderton, Ont., after Virtue underwent surgery for an overuse condition in her legs that curtailed their career the season before the Olympics.
Olympic bronze medalist Joannie Rochette of Ile-Dupas, Que., will also not compete; she’s put her competitive career on hold while she contemplates her future.
The only Canadian champion remaining to compete at Skate Canada is world silver medalist Patrick Chan of Toronto, who is injury free and ready to go, Slipchuk said.
Dube and Davison will be replaced by promising young Canadians Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto, who paired up only in the spring of 2009, but months later impressed judges and spectators at Skate Canada.
Slipchuk said he saw Moore-Towers and Moscovitch skate last week and said they are ready, too. They were fifth at the Canadian championships last year.
Skate Canada is the second of six Grand Prix events. Dube and Davison are also scheduled to compete at Cup of Russia, the fifth event, next month. Slipchuk said they will determine how serious Davison’s injury is before considering what to do about Cup of Russia. He’s hoping for a quick recovery.
“Once we know what it is, then we can get it fixed,” Davison told Slipchuk.
Slipchuk said the two withdrawals in the past two weeks reinforce the importance of having depth in the Canadian skating program.
Missing Skate Canada will mean that Dube and Davison have no shot at making the Grand Prix Final in Beijing in December. The top point-earners from six Grand Prix event advance to the final, but even if they get to Cup of Russia, they won’t amass enough points to make it. |
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