#stellato-dudek and deschamps

[stitching-in-time]

Worlds 2024 was amazing and who would have thought that the Pairs would be my other fave event?? Like it kind of felt like pairs was a bit empty for a long time after the well of Soviet-trained Russian skaters ran out, but it's so back now, in a big way!!!

So happy for Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps! They really worked their tails off, and they deserve all of their success. They're not even my faves, but the quality is there, and aside from Deanna making history as the oldest World title winner, she is truly revolutionary in redefining what's possible in the sport. Literally everyone has always believed skating careers should end in your thirties, that it's impossible to skate competitively beyond your mid thirties at all, let alone successfully, and here she is blasting a hole in that narrative. In a sport that's often been dominated by teenagers, it's just amazing to see someone at 40 at the top of her game, achieving so much, especially on home ice. She was crying, I was crying, the commentators were crying, it was a damn good freeskate!

And my faves, Hase & Volodin, making the podium after their semi-disaster at Europeans fills my heart with joy. I've been obsessed with them this whole season, I can't believe they're so good in their first season together! They look like mirror images of each other, they way they move, their body lines, all perfectly matched, and they have the technical content too! They look like they've skated together their whole lives! And they were smiling through almost their whole freeskate!! They radiate joy!! They land side by side triples!! How are they so perfect?! I don't know, but if this is them just starting out, I'm beyond excited to see what they do in the future when they have more experience together.

Miura & Kihara are also amazing and I'm glad they won the silver, I hope they are ok after not attending the medal ceremony!

Also Italy has so many good pair teams now! They've been great all season, and though they didn't do super well at Worlds, I'm sure they'll be back stronger than ever next year. And hopefully they'll have three spots by the Milan Olympics.

Honestly I'm just really glad to see there were so many pairs who did well, and who went for (and landed!) side by side triples, the future of pairs skating is bright and I'm excited for the next Olympics.

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Huge Triple Twist. She stepped out of the final jump of that sbs sequence. Solid sbs Triple Sals. Nice lift. Nice death spiral. Nice pairs spin. A bit forward on the throw Triple Sal. Nice lift. Nice choreo sequence. Solid throw Triple Loop. Nice lift.

That was a great program from Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada. It wasn't perfect - a couple of small things here and there that could leave the door open for the Japanese, but still - very well done, and they should be very proud.

144.08, 221.56 and into first head of Hase/Voldoin and Pavlova/Svitachenko.

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Deanna Stellato-Dudek: 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist → 2024 World Champion

At the age of 40, Deanna Stellato-Dudek is the oldest woman to win a World Championships title in figure skating, with her pairs partner Maxime Deschamps for Canada. Deanna Stellato was the 1999 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion and 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist in the women's singles discipline. She retired from competitive skating in 2001, and returned as a pairs skater in 2016.

40 years is the new 20. That's what I'd like to say. [This record is] not something that I ever set out to do when I came back to skating, but I knew that if I were to accomplish my dreams, it would inevitably occur, because I'm the oldest everywhere. But it's something I carry with pride, and I'm very proud of it. I hope a lot of athletes stay around a lot longer. I hope it encourages people to not stop before they reach their potential. And I hope it transcends into other areas, not just in sports, but also in other areas of life [...] [My 15-year-old self] would say, why did we stop? We're still skating, you know, 25 years later? I think my younger self would think I'm crazy, so she wouldn't think much of it at all. And she wanted to win the 2006 Olympics [...]

-- 2024 World Championships Free Skate Press Conference

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Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps's Interview with the Vampire costumes at the 2023 Skate Canada, 2024 World Championships and 2024 Four Continents, and below at the 2023 Autumn Classic International and 2023 Grand Prix Final.

Deschamps starts off just fine...

... but drama ensues and he comes out looking a little wounded:

(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

[beautifulstorms]

Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps, All I Ask • Worlds 2024

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World Championships + text post memes part 2/4 ( 1 2 3 4 )

[edgecallskating]

There's feeling your feelings, and then there's emoting like Deanna 8 feet in the air during a group 5 lift.

[crazykuroneko]

the Interview with The Vampire program just won gold in Worlds 2024

Congratulations 🎉🥳

They won in their home turf and she became the oldest World medalist

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2023 Skate Canada - October 28, 2023 Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps → Music from "Interview with the Vampire" by Daniel Hart: Laudanum and Arsenic, The Drum Was My Heart, Vien A Moi, arranged by Karl Hugo, choreographed by Julie Marcotte

[leahthedreamer]

Deanna Stellato-Dudek & Maxime Deshamps (CAN) SP- Oxygene || ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2024

[figureskatingfanblog]

Lovely Triple Twist. Nice sbs Triple Toes. Lovely lift. Wonderful throw Triple Loop. Nice sbs spins. Wondeful step sequence. Nice death spiral.

Gorgeous and stunning skate from Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps. Right when it counted, they brought it. Great job!

77.48 and into first ahead of Miura/Kihara and Hase/Volodin - well deserved

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The face of a woman who does not dare to believe yet what just happened.

[figureskatingcostumes]

The Winners!

Congratulations to Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps for winning the coveted title of Favourite Costumes of 2023–2024! I'm sure this victory is even sweeter than their World title.

Kaori Sakamoto nabbed the silver medal and Shoma Uno the bronze.

Thank you to everyone who suggested costumes and everyone who voted. It was a lot of fun to put together and I'm looking forward to the 2024–2025 edition :D

[beautifulstorms]

Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps, Interview with a Vampire • Worlds 2024

[edgecallskating]

No one could convince me to do pairs as a teenager and you sure as hell couldn't convince me to do it now, but Deanna makes it look like the best time ever.