Natalie D'Alessandro and Bruce Waddell skating to music from Funny Face and Victor/Victoria for their rhythm dance at the 2020 Youth Olympics.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Natalie D' Alessandro and Bruce Waddell have split.
Edit: Per her Instagram, she’s retiring to go to school full-time.
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Who in the current junior teams worldwide do you see as a serious contender for the 2026 Olympics? Or will the next Olympics be dominated by senior teams that are already established this quad?
ooh it's interesting to think about which juniors have the potential to medal at the Olympics, but unless they rise really fast after they senior up, it probably will take til 2030. Usually the top Olympic teams have been seniors for more than a full quad - like in Beijing, you'd have to reach to #13 (Lajoie/Lagha) to find a team who were still juniors in 2018. PYC and Sochi were the same- all teams in the top 10 were seniors for a quad+. P/C were young in 2018, but they had been seniors since 2013-14. Ice dancers can compete longer than singles skaters, so you see a lot of experienced teams in the final flights at the Olympics.
So much can happen with juniors before they even go senior - there are a lot of splits, like Avonley Nguyen/Vadym Kolesnik winning Jr Worlds and being done. Emmy Bronsard/Aissa Bouaraguia 😢 Natalie D'Alessandro/Bruce Waddell, Utana Yoshida/Shingo Nishiyama. And we're not seeing the Russian juniors this year. So it feels too soon to guess who might have the combination of drive, resources, ability and luck to make the podium in 2030. But it's fun to wonder how far the Mrazeks or Bashynska/Beaumont can go.
With the minimum ages for jr/sr being raised, more teams will stay junior longer, so maybe the path from juniors to Olympics will get shorter?
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Natalie D'Alessandro and Bruce Waddell shared a photo of themselves with Stephen in Luxembourg for 2016 Coupe du Printemps as part of an Instagram Q & A. This was their international competition debut, and the first competiton covered here.
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Natalie D'Alessandro and Bruce Waddell's rhythm dance costumes at the 2021 Junior Grand Prix events in Ljubljana and Kosice. They skated to Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield, The Good Wife soundtrack by David Buckley, and Pump It by the Black Eyed Peas.
(Source: picdrop.com)
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Natalie D’Alessandro / Bruce Waddell (CAN) - Rhythm Dance
64.48 - 2nd
JGP Slovakia / JGP Kosice
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“I love D’Alessandro/Waddell & Lajoie/Lagha so much. They are the future of ice dance, and with the U.S.A. having just as amazing talents like CPom, Brown/Brown, Green/Parsons, Wolfkostin/Chen & many more, I don’t see Russia or Japan keeping up or having enough teams to catch up, just like ladies’ skating is going to most likely be dominated by Russian ladies’ for at least another decade, I see the same prediction happening to ice dance with North American (Can & US) teams!”
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Team Canada Ice Dance: The Next Generation | 2008-2018
Inspired by @lazaruspithottub :)
Virtue/Moir | CD | Worlds 2008
Lajoie/Lagha | RD | JGP Final Vancouver 2018
Fabbri/Ayer | RD | JGP Bratislava 2018
D’Alessandro/Waddell | RD | JGP Richmond 2018
Bronsard/Bouaraguia |RD | JGP Ostrava 2018
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skate_canada:
Junior ice dance final results / Résultats finaux de la danse sur glace junior:
🥇 Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha (QC) 179.71
🥈 Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer (QC) 158.57
🥉 Natalie D Alessandro/Bruce Waddell (ON) 155.79
#CTNSC19 #CNPCT19 #CreatingHistory #Créerlhistoire 📷 @danielleearlphotography
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