NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leaving the ice with tears of joy after her gold medal-winning free skate at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, a shaking 15-year-old Tara Lipinski shared a sentiment shared by millions watching around the globe: “That was so cool.” Lipinski had de... More »
(Reuters) – World champion Nathan Chen delivered a spectacular free skate to easily claim his third consecutive U.S. figure skating title in Detroit on Sunday. The 19-year-old Olympian, already a 13-point leader after Saturday’s short program, earned 228.80 po... More »
Figure Skating – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice Dance short dance competition – Gangneung Ice Arena – Gangneung, South Korea – February 19, 2018 – Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis of France perform. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson GANGNEUNG, South Kore... More »
Figure Skating – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice Dance short dance competition – Gangneung Ice Arena – Gangneung, South Korea – February 19, 2018 – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada perform. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – Ca... More »
Figure Skating – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Team Event Ice Dance Free Dance competition final – Gangneung Ice Arena – Gangneung, South Korea – February 12, 2018 – Gold medallists, Canada’s team, celebrate. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj GANGNEUNG, South Korea (R... More »
Figure Skating – ISU Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup 2017 – Men’s Short Program – Moscow, Russia – October 20, 2017 – Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan reacts after the performance. REUTERS/Alexander Fedorov (Reuters) – Yuzuru Hanyu will defend his figure skating title at the P... More »
The stars aligned for Allison Janney when she dressed up in a cheap fur coat, perched a parakeet on her shoulder, and chain-smoked and swore through figure-skating movie "I, Tonya." More »
Nov 26, 2017- Lake Placid, NY, USA- Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) and Satoko Miyahara (JPN) and Bradie Tennell (USA) respectively show off their silver and the gold and the bronze medal in the ladies free skating program during the 2017 Skate America figure skating com... More »
Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu has dropped out of a grand prix event in Japan due to injury, officials said on Friday, though there was no word on whether the issue was serious enough to affect his chances at February's Winter Games. More »
Japanese figure skater Mao Asada attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japanese figure skater Mao Asada, an Olympic silver medalist and three-time world champion, said on Wednesday she had given her all to her competitive... More »
Figure Skating – ISU World Championships 2017 – Men’s Victory Ceremony – Helsinki, Finland – 1/4/17 – Gold medallist Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan attends the ceremony. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor For all his brilliance and world record scores, there is one annoying riddle ... More »
Figure Skating – ISU World Championships 2017 – Pairs Short Program – Helsinki, Finland – 29/3/17 – Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China compete. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor Chinese duo Wenjing Sui and Cong Han emerged unscathed in a field littered with the walking wou... More »
Short Track – Asian Winter Games – Women’s 1000 m – Makomanai, Sapporo, Japan 22/02/17 – South Korea’s Shim Suk-hee (L) and South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong (R) in action during final. Picture taken on February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon South Korea invested... More »
Jan 22, 2017- Kansas City, MO, USA- Nathan Chen during the men’s free skate in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship at Sprint Center. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Teenage prodigy Nathan Chen became the first skater to land five quads in a... More »
Figure Skating – Skate America, Men’s Free Skate, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, U.S., 23/10/16. Shoma Uno of Japan skates during his free skate program. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski Japanese teenager Shoma Uno landed three quadruple jumps in Sunday’s free skate to w... More »
TORONTO When Courtney Donovan arrived for her Pan American Games roller figure skating short program and saw people in the stands an hour before the competition she was sure they were lost. It was an understandable reaction for an athlete who has spent her ent... More »
