PJ Kwong

Favourite skating moments, and we all have one or two, are not always about the making of today’s champions…they sometimes say as much about the speaker, as they do about the skating event or skater featured in that moment…in today’s Edgework:

ANTOINETTE CATRICALA

Technical Merit – Personal and professional highlights

· Supervising producer of figure skating coverage for CTV/TSN Sports, with over 10 years of experience in one capacity or another in this sport.

· Independent producer for both Canadian and American broadcasters, of among other things, World and Olympic events, weekly shows and corporate videos.

· A huge sports fan, whose love of sport comes through clearly in everything she does, regardless of event or discipline.

Artistic Impression – The essence of their story

‘It was at the Mastercard Skate Canada International, in Mississauga in the fall of 2000, when moments before, Elena Berezhnaya came to me asking for help, as she had forgotten her competition outfit in her hotel room some distance away. She and partner Anton Sikharulidze, future 2002 co-Olympic Champions, were due to skate in the final flight of, the already started Pairs Free Skate. I quickly nabbed 2 members of the CTV crew to leap into a car and race to the hotel, about 10 minutes away, armed with Elena’s room key. We remained in touch by cellphone. One crewmeber stayed in the car, while the other grabbed a bellman to run to the room with her, in case there was a key problem. Once there, I heard via cellphone, that she couldn’t be sure of which costume, based on the description that Elena had given me, so she grabbed all of them and raced back to the car. They arrived back to the rink, and we ran to Elena with the dresses. With moments to spare, she was dressed and on the ice warming up. I think I had been more nervous about the whole ordeal than she.’