#the uploader has the fd for 4cc and the quality is great but the skate makes me sad for them

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The Canadian Nationals 2006 free dance. It starts off with a bang - a bus full of VM family descending on Ottawa to watch the competition live.

This is the heartbreaker event for young VM, who had hopes and dreams of going to Torino Olympics 2006, but were edged out by the silver medal team of Wing/Lowe. VM beat them in both the OD and the FD, but the gap in the compulsory was too much to overcome, and Skate Canada went with the traditional choice of their more experienced and mature silver medalists. Of course, we all know how the rest of this story goes, but at the time, VM were extremely disappointed.

The compulsory, which is unsurprisingly not available, was the Tango Romantica, a difficult pattern only skated at the senior level. Therefore it was a brand new dance for VM, and according to the commentators, a ‘rough’ outing. More surprising is the lack of video of the OD, but not just for this event - while several uploaders have shared it from 4CC (an understandably more accessible event as it was an international, senior event), there seems to be only low quality versions of the Nationals OD (for which I am still grateful!) and that is it. Even Junior Worlds does not seem to have the OD available.

As with the 2004/2005 season, VM competed as juniors, but at Nationals were in the senior division, and therefore had to add an extra minute and more elements to their FD for this event. When they did not make the Olympic team, they were assigned to Four Continents 2006, where they made their senior international debut and used this extended version of their FD again (though they had a disappointing skate), before going to Junior Worlds where they became the first Canadian team to win gold.