Follow along for live updates.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week\u2019s reflection,\u201d Schizas wrote in an email to her professor. \u201cI was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schizas attached a link to a Canadian Olympic Committee press release to prove her participation. She captioned the social media post, \u201cLOLLLL I\u2764\ufe0fbeing a student athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n
The figure skater, who participated in the 2022 Beijing Games, competed Friday in women\u2019s single skating, earning a score of 64.97. She\u2019ll be competing again Sunday night in the team event.<\/p>\n
CORRECTION (Feb. 7, 2026, 6:34 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misspelled the figure skater\u2019s name throughout. She is Madeline Schizas, not Schivas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even Olympians have to turn in their homework. Madeline Schizas, a Canadian figure skater and student at McMaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-461967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}