Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps compete at a Skate Canada event in Saskatoon in October, 2025. The pair will compete next week at the Winter Olympics.Matt Smith/The Canadian Press
Canadian pairs skaters Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will compete at the Olympics next week, Skate Canada announced Tuesday.
For the past week, it has been unclear whether Stellato-Dudek would be competing in the pairs figure skating event. Just days before she was due to leave for Milan, the 42-year-old suffered an injury in practice, which forced her to pull out of the team event. Skate Canada provided few details about the incident, other than to say she was being monitored on a daily basis and that the injury was a result of an “accident.”
On Tuesday, Skate Canada revealed more details, explaining that Stellato-Dudek had hit her head. She is now “feeling well and is looking forward to taking the ice at Milano Cortina 2026,” Skate Canada said in a news release.
If she competes as planned, Stellato-Dudek, a three-time national champion and 2024 world champion with Deschamps, will become the oldest woman to compete in an Olympic figure skating event in nearly 100 years.
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