2025 CS Warsaw Cup Zofia Grzegorzewska and Oleg Muratov 🇵🇱 📷 Matt Sakson #CSFigure #WarsawCup #FigureSkating #sportivo

2025 CS Warsaw Cup Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps 🇨🇦 📷 Matt Sakson #CSFigure #WarsawCup #FigureSkating #sportivo

Katie McBEATH / Daniil PARKMAN 🇺🇸 3./160.26 Katie: Well, it was a pretty big disappointment for us, but, you know, in a season, there’s a lot of ups and downs and a lot of learning experiences. I definitely can say for myself that there’s some fatigue, so I just have got to go get some rest and reset the mind. Because my body’s good. For me, personally, my portion of the short program was very good yesterday and Daniil and I, we know we can do a good long, we can do a good competition. We’ve had a lot of improvement this year, so it’s just resetting the mind, getting some rest, and then moving forward. (on coming to Warsaw Cup) Anytime we can come and represent our country, that’s amazing. At the end of the day, this is just ice skating. It’s just one program and by the time we do another program, everyone’s going to forget about this program. There’s always another performance. We all love figure skating and we love to show it off and we love to watch it. We also like to get to experience new places, new cities. It’s absolutely amazing. So at the end of the day, I’m having an awesome life experience that I’m going to take with me forever. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

Sara-Maude DUPUIS 🇨🇦 1./185.66 PB I’m so excited. You know, winning an international gold medal was a dream. Sometimes I didn’t even think it would be possible and today it happened and I didn’t expect it. I knew there was an open door today, and I’m glad I stepped right through it, and I’m also glad to continue the Canadian women’s tradition, because Catherine won last year. I’m happy to keep it going. Hopefully next year somebody else wins. I have eight weeks till Nationals and I really want to clean up this long program. I think the short program is in a good spot. I want to make it even better, but I’m happy with it now and then the free program. I just want to clean up the little things, little mistakes, but it’s nice that I got two PBs this week and I wasn’t even perfect. So there’s still room to grow before I go to Nationals and my goal is to win. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

Laura SZCZESNA 🇵🇱 50.40 I think it was such a powerful skate, I had a lot of energy to do this. I think it’s the first time when I when I feel like this. My favorite part was the step sequence, because it’s after all spins, after jumps, and the stress for your body. For tomorrow, I want to skate a clean free program. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS 🇨🇦 1./75.46 SB (on their short program) We had fun doing it. The crowd was amazing. And we came here with some new objectives and I feel we achieved them. Every time we go out, we try to be a little bit better than the latest skate. And that’s what we did today again, so we’re pleased with that. Deanna: When we got here, I wasn’t feeling well, I was feeling a little sick, maybe just the jet lag. But they told us yesterday that it was going to be a full house for our competition. So I was like, oh my gosh, I need to feel better fast, because I want to do well for everybody who comes to watch us. Unfortunately, there was a large, four teams withdrawal over the weekend, which is unexpected. Originally, we came here for the points, obviously, for the world ranking. But we had to change our focus a little bit to really just only focus on being here and what we want to achieve here. And that’s what we did today. We’re trying to get another competition in before the final. Just to, you know, work out any kinks and try some new things and make sure that we can be the best we can be. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD 🇫🇷 1./202.06 SB We are so happy, we always come here because we really like this competition. It’s kind of “our” competition. Or when we decide which Challenger we do, we say we want to go to Warsaw. Until the end of our career, hopefully we will be, like, 10 times champions of Warsaw Cup. So you will continue to see us for a long time here. (on coming to Poland straight from Skate America) That was intense. But we’re not thinking about it because we probably go to the Olympics now, it’s kind of sure, and we have a team event and right away a competition, like back to back. So we want to practice this and it’s good. It’s kind of late here, but in some time, we’ll need to push ourselves in every moment. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS 🇺🇸 3./189.27 SB Michael: l think 95% of that program was very good. And, again, it was a mistake that we wish we didn’t make, but it is what it is. So I think looking back, we’re really proud of the training that we put into these programs. We’re really proud of the rhythm dance that we did here. And we know our jobs, which is to go back home and train as hard as we can and get ready for Nationals, which is our next event. (on recovering from injury) The last couple of weeks have been an interesting mix of recovery and training. But we’re feeling really good physically now. It’s just about getting even stronger and keeping our health where we want it to be, leading up to Nationals. Caroline: I think that with all the travel and the back-to-back competition, it definitely takes a toll physically, and I think that was definitely what we were feeling here, but I was really proud of our ability to deliver the rhythm dance that we did and to push through despite the mistake. I think it’s really easy to have that happen and then let the whole program snowball. So I’m really proud of how we just stayed together. We came back in and just focused for the rest of the program. Michael: And I guess the silver lining is we know that we’re so much better than how we’ve skated and we’ve skated really well. So I think looking at it that way, we’re really excited for Nationals, to put 2 very strong skates together and show people what we’ve been working on all year. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure