Toronto Star – January 24, 2011
For one night, Chan’s dreams become reality
Rosie DiManno
VICTORIA—That was Perfect Patrick: A 10, a 6.0, a 100 per cent.
The kind of seminal performance that an athlete fantasizes about but almost never realizes in true life.
A thing of beauty is what Patrick Chan pulled out from deep within his skating soul, pouring every ounce of technical skill, every gram of artistic nuance, into a Phantom of the Opera performance unlike anything he’d ever laid down before.
In a sport that mocks the very notion of perfection, the 20-year-old from Toronto was perfect-plus, topping out with a new world-best score — indeed, he merely surpassed his own previous established watershed mark — and ran away with gold, his fourth straight men’s title at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Read More
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I watched it. Great performance, 伟群！
We are proud of you!
Great job Patrick. I am so proud of you and congratulation to your partents.
Nobody will call you Big-mouth Chan anymore.
Too many Japanese people are looking forward to watch your perfectly perfect performance in Tokyo.
You did a great performance yesterday Patrick, Go ahead to meet every challenge that you might have come across in future.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for giving us two amazing performances in Victoria this past weekend. We (Victoria, collectively, and all out of towners who were lucky enough to watch you live) were simply astonished by your skating. All I can think is…you must be the Liberace, the Mozart, or the Micheal Jackson of Figure Skating.
TWO quads AND a TRIPLE AXEL. In 4 minutes and 40 seconds. No one deserves it more than Patrick Chan.
congratulation!!
amazing man. love you
You are an amazing skater. Nice landings on the two quad jumps and the axel. Good luck at Tokyo!
Jodi
Congratulations!
I Like your skating and smile.
I’m going to go to Tokyo’s exhibition.
I love you!
That free program was amazing. The best I’ve ever seen Patrick skate. Heck, probably the best I’ve ever seen anyone skate.
Bravo, Patrick. You really deserve this.
Bravo, the two performances were fantastic… can’t wait to see him at the Worlds Championship. Keep those awesome quads in your program!
A Proud Canadian!