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Figure skating

July 2024

  • USA's Karen Chen reacts after competing in the figure skating team event during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

    US figure skaters to receive Beijing gold medals in Paris after two-year legal case

    The US team will receive upgraded medals after a sports court dismissed Russia’s appeal. Russian had placed first but were ensnared in a doping case

May 2024

  • Ilia Malinin, a 19-year-old Virginia native and American competitive figure skater, demonstrates a jump as he poses for a portrait at SkateQuest in Reston, VA, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Malinin won his first world title at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships. Malinin trains at SkateQuest and is coached by Malinin’s parents, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov, who are former international competitors for Azerbaijan.

    ‘I want to push the limits’: ‘quad god’ Ilia Malinin on his mission to save figure skating – and do a quintuple

    At 19, Malinin is the only person in history to land a quadruple axel – a four-and-a-half-revolution jump – in competition, and he thinks he can go further. Will his incredible athleticism revive a tarnished sport?

March 2024

  • Ilia Malinin of the United States skates with his gold medal during the victory ceremony for the men's free program at the International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal

    Quad god: Ilia Malinin sparkles on ice and takes figure skating to next level

    American teenager’s record-breaking routine set to the Succession theme has reverberated through a sport in need of a boost
  • Ilia Malinin, of the United States, celebrates with his gold medal during the Saturday’s victory ceremony.

    US prodigy Ilia Malinin drills six quads to win first world figure skating title

    Ilia Malinin, the Virginia prodigy and self-proclaimed ‘quadg0d’, won his first world championship on Saturday night with a history-making free skate
  • Gold medalist Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, center, poses with silver medalist Isabeau Levito of the United States, left, and bronze medalist Kim Chae-yeon of South Korea during Friday’s victory ceremony at figure skating worlds.

    Sakamoto three-peats at figure skating worlds as US teen Levito takes silver

    Kaori Sakamoto of Japan is the first women’s figure skater to three-peat as world champion since American Peggy Fleming from 1966 to 1968

February 2024

  • Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean back in Sarajevo

    ‘Happy Boléro day’: Torvill and Dean return to Sarajevo 40 years after gold

    Figure skating legends celebrated the 40th anniversary of their Olympic triumph at the place where they immortalised Ravel’s tune

January 2024

  • Alexa Knierim, Brandon Frazier, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Madison Hubbell, Zachary Donohue of the United States celebrate during the figure skating team event flower ceremony on day three of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

    US figure skaters to receive 2022 Olympic team gold after Valieva disqualified

  • Kamila Valieva pictured competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

    Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s titles stripped after four-year ban for doping

  • Madison Chock and Evan Bates compete in Saturday’s free dance at US nationals.

    Madison Chock and Evan Bates overcome illness for fifth US figure skating title

  • Amber Glenn competes during the women's free skate at the US figure skating championships on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.

    ‘Utter shock’: Amber Glenn wins US figure skating title after Levito falls three times

December 2023

  • USA's Ilia Malinin competes in the men's free skate on Saturday at the Grand Prix Finals in Beijing.

    US figure skater Ilia Malinin makes history with Grand Prix Final win

  • Ilia Malinin of the United States performs during the short program of the Grand Prix Finals on Thursday in Beijing.

    US figure skater Ilia Malinin lands quad axel to take lead at Grand Prix Finals

November 2023

  • Ava Marie Ziegler of the United States reacts to her score in the kiss and cry on Saturday in Osaka.

    Ava Ziegler caps historic US figure skating breakthrough with shock NHK Trophy win

  • Lindsay Thorngren of US performs in the women short program during ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating on Friday in Osaka, Japan.

    American teenager Lindsay Thorngren roars to surprise lead at NHK Trophy

September 2023

  • Kamila Valieva in action during the 2022 Winter Olympics.

    Kamila Valieva’s Olympic case heads to court with Russian doping in focus

    The court of arbitration for sport has begun hearing the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case

August 2023

  • Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam compete for Canada at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championship. The couple married in 2021

    Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul killed in crash at age of 31

    The former Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul has died at the age of 31 in a car crash, Skate Canada has confirmed

March 2023

  • Kings on Ice figure skating jump show made by Evgeni Plushenko, Warsaw, Poland 2016.

    Figure skating isn’t seen as extreme, but learning in my 40s I found ice extremely hard

  • Isabeau Levito

    New Jersey prodigy Isabeau Levito in medal mix at figure skating worlds

February 2023

  • Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva takes part in a show at the CSKA arena in Moscow on 14 February

    Wada to take Valieva case to Cas after skater cleared by Rusada

    The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has announced it will take the case of figure skater Kamila Valieva to the court of arbitration for sport

January 2023

  • Isabeau Levito

    New Jersey teen Isabeau Levito soars to first US national figure skating title

    Isabeau Levito needed a near-flawless free skate to capture gold at the US Figure Skating Championships after Bradie Tennell’s beautiful performance
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