Kevin Aymoz rallies to win Skate Canada, second-oldest men's Grand Prix winner

France's Kevin Aymoz, 29, overtook world junior champion Rio Nakata, an 18-year-old from Japan, to win Skate Canada and become the second-oldest Grand Prix men's singles champion.Aymoz erased a 2.38-point deficit after Friday's short to win by 9.18 after Saturday's free skate in Kelowna, British Columbia.Though Aymoz had trouble landing his quadruple toe loop and triple Axel to open his free skate, he made up the gap on Nakata with his artistic score, which was best in the field by 6.92 points.Nakata was fourth in the free skate, doubling two of his three planned quad jumps in his senior Grand Prix debut. He was bidding to become the youngest men's Grand Prix winner since Ilia Malinin won twice in 2022 at age 17.Instead, Aymoz supplanted himself as the second-oldest man to win a Grand Prix after Russian Sergei Voronov, who won in 2017 at age 30. Aymoz also won Skate America in 2025.Aymoz, who was 11th at the 2026 Olympics as the oldest men's singles skater in Milan, had a stomach ailment over the summer, visiting the hospital and losing 22 pounds.Men's free skate highlights air Sunday at 12 p.m. ET on NBC. Skate Canada finishes Sunday with the women's free skate and free dance, live on Peacock and NBCSN starting at 3 p.m. ET.FIGURE SKATING: Full Results | Broadcast ScheduleEarlier Saturday, Mao Shimada, who won the last four world junior titles in an undefeated junior career, recorded the world's highest women's short program score on the young season.Shimada, who turned 18 on Friday, landed a triple Axel, triple flip (a quarter turn under-rotated) and a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination for 82.11 points.Shimada leads by 3.61 points over U.S. Olympian Isabeau Levito, who had a clean short including a triple Lutz-triple loop combo in her season debut.Brits Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson were best in the rhythm dance with 81.37 points, taking a 3.47-point lead over Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud of France.Figure skating rules continue to be moving target headed into 2026-27 Grand Prix seasonThe figure skating season moves into full glide this weekend in Angers, France, with the first of seven senior Grand Prix events. Philip Hersh,