Getty Uno Shoma looks to win big in Canada.
World champion Uno Shoma will be among the figure skating stars showing off their talent at Skate Canada.
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In the United States, the only televised coverage of the event will be a highlights show on NBC on Sunday at Noon ET, but you can watch a live stream of every Skate Canada 2022 event on Friday (2 p.m. ET start time) and Saturday (1:15 p.m. ET start time) on Peacock Premium, which costs $4.99 per month:
Once signed up for Peacock, you can watch Skate Canada 2022 live on the Peacock TV app or Peacock TV website.
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Skate Canada 2022 Preview
Canada hosts Grand Prix figure skating action with reigning world champion Uno Shoma of Japan coming to the Mississauga, Canada.
Shom, a three-time Olympic medalist, looks to add to his trophy case. He won’t get to compete against other figure skating stars such as USA’s Nathan Chen and Japan’s Hanyu Yuzuru, but Shom said he’s OK with that.
“I felt really sad initially,” Uno said in an interview, translated via Olympics.com’s Shintaro Kano. “Because I’ve been competing with and against [Hanyu and Chen] for so long. They were always there even though I knew the time would come one day.”
“I’ve always been the one doing the hunting and not the one being hunted so it’s been a little awkward for me to be the world champion, being the target for everyone else,” Uno added.
Fellow Japan skater Kao Miura will also compete. Other international competitors include Canada’s Keegan Messing and Stephen Gogolev, Latvia’s Deniss Vasiljevs, Italy’s Matteo Rizzo, and Switzerland’s Stephanie Lambiel.
United States figure skater Camden Pulkinen will also compete. He took fifth in the world championships earlier this year.
On the women’s side, Isabeau Levito and Lindsay Thorngren will represent the U.S. Thorngren won bronze in the junior world championships.
America will also have the tandems of Spencer Howe and Emily Chan plus Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier competing in the pairs competition. Meanwhile, Caroline Green and Michael Parsons will compete in the ice dance competition for the U.S.
Team USA competitors will face stiff competition in all of the events at Skate Canada.
Kihira Rika of Japan comes in as a gold medal contender for the women’s individual competition. She won the 2018 Grand Prix title, but a foot injury in 2021 caused her to miss the Olympics.
Japan’s Watanabe Rinka will also compete. She took gold at the Lombardia Challenger Series.
Canada has Madeline Schizas and Gabrielle Daleman, a gold medal winner in the Olympics at PyeongChang in 2018. You Young of South Korea looks to add to her medal collection, which includes a Youth Olympic Games win in 2020.
Japan boasts one of the top pairs tandems in Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi. They won bronze in the world championships and look to challenge Knierim and Frazier, the tandem who won the world championships.
Ice dance features Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, a duo who won bronze in the world championships. England’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson notably have two Challenger wins this year as do Canada’s Zachary Lagha and Majorie Lajoie.
Competition Schedule
Friday
1400 Women’s short program
1550 Ice dance rhythm dance
1845 Pair skating short program
2010 Men’s short program
Saturday
1315 Women’s free skate
1525 Ice dance free dance
1800 Pair skating free skate
1936 Men’s free skate
Sunday
1400 Exhibition gala