Stellato-dudek: Injury Pre-olympics ‘a Nightmare’ - Beritaja

MILAN – Canadian fig skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek says suffering an wounded days earlier the Milan Cortina Olympic Games was “a surviving nightmare.”

The erstwhile world pairs champion pinch partner Maxime Deschamps practised for the first clip astatine the Games connected Friday aft hitting her caput connected the crystal connected Jan. 30 while training successful Quebec.

Stellato-Dudek wouldn’t uncover specifications of her wounded aliases really it occurred, but the 42-year-old said it was not a concussion.

She besides said she and Deschamps will not execute the assisted backflip they’d planned successful their short programme to “Carmina Burana.”

Stellato-Dudek is poised to go the oldest female fig skater successful about a period to compete astatine the Olympics.

She and Deschamps initially withdrew from the squad event, but will now compete successful the individual pairs title opening Sunday astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Feb. 13, 2026.