Lifts are the trademark element of pairs figure skating. For generations, fans have been intrigued by a man lifting a woman over his head while skating. It was an extreme sport before ESPN invented ...
Discover the essentials of Olympic figure skating — explore each event (singles, pairs, ice dance, team), learn how scoring ...
Figure skating is the oldest sport in the Winter Olympics program but it can still be hard to tell the difference between the ice dancing discipline and pairs skating discipline at first glance. The ...
Over the three seasons after what seemed like a breakthrough bronze medal performance at Skate America in 2020, Audrey Shin had slowly lost both her confidence in the skills needed to be successful in ...
Dudek, returned to her sport after a 16-year hiatus, becoming the oldest female in history to win a world title. She competes ...
For those unfamiliar with Olympic pairs figure skating, the Russians are like the NCAA women's basketball powerhouse Connecticut Huskies. In each of the past 12 Winter Games, beginning at Innsbruck, ...
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier haven’t decided if they’ll compete beyond this season, so Saturday may have been their farewell to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. If so, they went out as ...
Football has its touchdowns and fumbles, baseball has runs and errors and hockey has goals and penalties. In figure skating, we’ve got grades of execution and underrotations, plus that infamous triple ...
The Olympics pairs free skate was supposed to be a showdown between the top two figure skating pairs in the world. It ended up with one team, Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, running ...