Discover the essentials of Olympic figure skating — explore each event (singles, pairs, ice dance, team), learn how scoring ...

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Unlike some other Winter Olympic events, figure skating tends to be a sport dominated by younger athletes. It's fairly common to see teenagers out on the ice for figure skating events, largely due to ...

Catch up on what’s changed in Olympic figure skating since Beijing—returning medalists, rising stars, major rule changes, and ...

Tara Lipinski owns a record that we now know will never be broken. At the age of 15 years and 255 days, the American figure skater triple-jumped her way into an upset over Michelle Kwan at the 1998 ...

Olympic champion speedskater Jutta Leerdam, a global star at the Milan Cortina Winter Games watched by her fiance Jake Paul, is taking a season away from the ice. “One thing is for sure, you will not ...

Figure skating routines, while marked by technical precision and speed, have often carried a similar look over the past 50 years. There are axels and Lutzes, Salchows and toe-loops. The rhythm by ...