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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...