In the ’90s, a golden era for Canadian figure skating, Elvis Stojko was the most fascinating of the nation’s elite competitors.

The Newmarket native won three world championships and two Olympic silver medals for Canada, yet somehow honours and podiums didn’t capture what separated him from the pack.

His explosive athleticism and daring style revolutionized the sport — with every competition it seemed he pushed the limits, feats that required not just technical genius, but also courage and imagination.

As a teenager, Elvis Aron Presley shaped subsequent generations from his first visit to the Sun Studios in Memphis, so did the namesake son of Slovenian and Hungarian emigres exercise an out-sized influence at 19 in his first world championship competition in Munich when he stuck a quad-d

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