Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton on What Sustains Him
Scott Hamilton is an Olympic gold medalist, a four-time world and national figure skating champion and a cancer survivor. On March 31 and April 1, he will share how his…
Lake Placid Is Indeed America’s Olympic Village
In the nearly 100-year history of the Winter Olympiad, only three towns have hosted the Games multiple times. The first? St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928 and 1946). The second? Innsbruck, Austria…
Woman with rare heart condition becomes ice skating coach
Many girls dream of being a figure skater, and for the ones that didn’t get the opportunity, that dream dies as they get older. However, for 37-year-old Dayyanah Coleman, her…
Figure skating champion Evgenia Medvedeva opens up on unhealthy thoughts
“Honestly, mental health is a huge part of my life. I often doubt myself. I don’t want to talk publicly about it, but I have some sort of problems,” skater…
Home Comfort at World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal
With a history of 108 years' worth of events, I wondered about the effect that home ice advantage had on the gold medal outcomes. It turns out that 32 titles…
Skating champ Evan Lysacek Reflects on his changed life since Vancouver Olympics
Lysacek rarely skates these days. He last did something that could be called a public performance when Ice Theatre of New York honored him in October 2016. With an ankle…
Canadian Figure Skating Has Bright Future in Kaiya Ruiter
The future of Canadian women’s figure skating wasn’t in the senior field at the Canadian championships in January. Kaiya Ruiter was already on a flight home to Calgary with a…
Why are Russians so good at ice skating?
After a dip in mass participation in sports and disintegration of much of the system of athletic training following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Putin government, laudably, renewed…
Winter Youth Olympic champion Yuma Kagiyama leads Men’s event
ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships update Winter Youth Olympic Games champion Yuma Kagiyama leads the men's competition at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Junior Figure Skating Championships in…
A Documentary about Synchronized Skating
“Life in Synchro,” partly filmed at the MedStar Capitals IcePlex in Ballston, will be screened locally at the DC Independent Film Festival on Saturday, March 7. Rosslyn resident Nicole Davies produced the film…