Jessica Dubé



Monday, January 5, 2009

Dube, Davison skate to silver at Four Continents
By Lyndon Little, Canwest News Service

Photograph by: Matthew Stockman, Getty Images
Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison skate in the Pairs Free Skate during the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Pacific Coliseum February 5, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.

VANCOUVER — Perhaps David Pelletier, the 2002 Olympic pairs gold medallist, said it best: If you’re going to come second in any competition it might as well be to a team like China’s Qing Pang and Jian Tong.

Canadian champions Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison skated another superb performance Thursday in the free skate portion of the Four Continents figure skating championships at the Pacific Coliseum. But the talented Chinese duo of Pang and Tong refused to leave the door open even a crack and hung on to their lead to repeat as Four Continents champions.

Pang and Tong claimed the gold with a total two-segment score of 194.94 points to 185.62 for Dube and Davison both of Drummondville, Que., who took the silver. The other world-class Chinese entry of Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang earned the bronze with 174.98 points with the order of finish among the three podium teams unchanged from Wednesday’s short program.

“We’re very happy with our performance here this week,” said the 23-year-old Davison.

“We’ve been waiting all season for a short program like we did here. We’ve been pleased with our training and it has shown in our results here.” Full Story