Pj Kwong is a self-proclaimed Word Broker who goes by the motto: I read them. I write them. I speak them. A fascination with other languages and a bilingual start to her education has helped carve a successful career as a PA announcer at 5 Olympic Games among many other events. The 25+ years as a figure skating coach has enabled her to talk skating in depth happily on CBC since 2007. The person rather than the accomplishments is how she approaches her subjects and her life.
My life has two speeds – fast and faster; so it comes as a bit of a surprise that I decided to go off and do something completely different which I will no doubt write about here. Before I leave though I asked permission to re-post the interviews I did for Worlds for CBC Bold. [...]
Sometime last fall, Caden Armstrong’s mom Leslie sidled up to me to tell me that their family was in possession of one of the flags that decorated Colorado Springs for the 1965 World Championships. What makes this significant is that my friend and fellow Canadian Petra Burka won her world title in Colorado Springs AND [...]
Guess what? I have been coaching long enough that I have gotten the chance to see what my former students have turned into in their adult lives. I am sure it won’t be long before I start teaching my ‘skating kids’” kids Arlene Paculan and her sister Tracy were part of a group of kids [...]
….ashamed of yourself if you were booing in Nice, France and you know who you are. I am a little late weighing in because I wanted to confirm for myself that this was because of Patrick Chan and not because of something happening off camera that I couldn’t see. Here are a couple of things [...]
Hi skating fans! The following is from my pal and fellow blogging/podcasting traveller Allison Manley. I am happy to pass it along to you…her list of interviewees is like a figure skating “Who’s Who” – check her out at www.manleywoman.com. With her sights firmly set on Dick Button – I love her clever plea! [...]
One of the benefits of going to Peterborough for the Rock The Ice III show was getting the chance to say hi to Shawn Sawyer. Having retired about a year ago, I was interested to know what he had been up to. “It used to be that at competitions I was doing my competitive programs [...]
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