After fraught end to Olympic figure skating final, some call for raising age limit The quadruple jumps that sent Russian world champ Anna Shcherbakova to the gold medal and teammate Alexandra ...
Ilia Malinin laid in the middle of the ice at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday ... champion landed six of his seven planned quad jumps — including the quad axel, the jump that ...
By the time Fleming was 15, Carol Heiss Jenkins, an Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, predicted on ABC that Fleming had the jumps and the power to win the 1968 Olympics. Fleming's rise to ...
personified figure skating for millions of Americans from the 1960s to the end of the 20th century, and into a portion of the 21st as well. The first American Olympic gold medalist in the sport ...
“Yeah, really showing that there will be a legacy that their memory continues on with, and will continue to be a part of our figure skating family,” 1992 Olympic gold medalist Yamaguchi adde ...
U.S. Figure Skating has released a list of 41 figure skaters who are expected to take the ice Sunday. In addition to Kerrigan, a two-time Olympic medalist, and Chen, the reigning gold medalist ...
Little more than a month after a tragic air disaster took the lives of 28 members of the US figure skating community ... Co-hosted by Olympic champions Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi ...
Four years later he retained his Olympic title ... whirling tops and reverse jumps and spins, all executed at tremendous speed.” Button with his fellow figure skating gold medallist Barbara ...
The tribute show, titled "Legacy on Ice," will feature dozens of the most well-known faces in American figure skating, from 1968 Olympic champion Peggy Fleming to 2022 Olympic champion Nathan Chen.
Japan's Hanyu, looking every bit the champion of the sport, won the short program Thursday at the World Figure ... the jumps of the top men but is masterful in all other aspects of skating ...
The purpose of this paper is to review the biomechanics of triple and quadruple figure skating jumps, focusing on information that has implications for strength and conditioning programs.
Dick Button, who has died aged 95, won two Olympic golds for figure skating and was regarded as one of the most dynamic and athletic innovators in his sport.