Duhamel, Radford dare to dream of Olympic gold after Skate Canada
REGINA — It’s the one title Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are missing, but one they’d stopped dreaming was even possible.
Olympic champion. Duhamel’s no longer afraid to say it.
Canada’s two-time world pairs champion climbed out of a year-long rut by winning their fourth straight — but “most emotional” — Skate Canada International on Saturday night, the highlight of a strong Grand Prix for Canada’s figure skating team less than four months from the Pyeongchang Olympics.
“I didn’t dare to think or say out loud that I wanted to win an Olympic gold medal,” Duhamel said Sunday morning, tired from the previous night’s adrenalin rush. “I thought ‘Well, we’re not even in that position anymore. We’re not even in that fight or conversation anymore.’