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Meagan Duhamel Wins CBC's Battle of the Blades

The vegan Olympic champion and former NHL forward Wojtek Wolski win $100,000 for charity

November 26, 2020

Vegan Olympic champion Meagan Duhamel has won CBC's Battle of the Blades with former NHL forward Wojtek Wolski, taking the season six title in the finale on Thursday, November 26.

The show pairs figure skaters with hockey players, and Duhamel and Wolski came out on top on the judges' scores in the final skate-off, CBC announced. Their win earns $100,000 for charity, shared between the Sandra Schmirler Foundation, which supports newborn intensive care units, and the Patient Amenities Fund at SickKids hospital in Toronto. They were also one of two pairs to make show history by landing the first ever throw triples.

Duhamel said the show had meant a lot in a hard year:

I feel like this show brought some light into my life in an otherwise difficult period

"It was a true honour to skate for the Sandra Schmirler Foundation during my time on Battle of the Blades," she said, and she had warm words for her partner: "I admired his creativity and performance quality throughout the process".

The two-time pairs world champion has been vegan since 2008, a decade before she won Olympic team gold in PyeongChang. She won both of her world titles with Eric Radford while vegan, and was skating at the very top of the sport for years on a plant-based diet.

We followed Duhamel when she won Olympic gold and rescued a dog destined for the dinner table, and when she retired as a two-time world champion in 2018. Two years on, she's still winning.

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