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:

STEVE MILTON

Technical Merit - Personal and professional highlights

· One of Canada’s pre-eminent writers on the subject of figure skating, with a 25 year history of covering the sport in feature articles and Canadian newspapers.

· Author of many books , including Brian Orser, A Skater’s Life, and Skate – 100 years of Figure Skating

· Journalist, currently with the Hamilton Spectator, covering figure skating among other sports.

Artistic Impression - The essence of their story

“I have three favourite moments in skating.

My first was standing under the arena in Cincinnati in March 1987, with Brian Orser still in his skates and costume watching Brian Boitano's marks come up at Worlds. Doug Leigh and Brian and I, three Orillia-based guys at the time, huddled around the monitor there. Then the marks came up, the screen rolled and Brian said very flatly and quietly. "I won". All those years, all those near misses, all those getting-screwed-in-figures, all those newspapers and magazine articles I wrote beginning in 1979, selling him to a public which didn't believe we would ever have a champion again. It all came out at that moment. And of course, for Brian, there was a depth of relief and joy which I can only begin to imagine.”