Life After Figure Skating. Life After the Olympics
From the Olympics to Wall Street: The athletes who become brokers Emily Samuelson competed at the highest level as an ice dancer over the course of her 15-year career,...
Russia Avoids Complete Ban at Rio Games
Moscow has welcomed the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) saying it was grateful that it had not imposed a complete ban on Russia competing at the Rio...
Champion Skater’s Sailor Moon Program
Evgenia Medvedeva is the 2016 World and European champion in women’s figure skating. She’s also a huge Sailor Moon fan. Medvedeva does a full routine to various songs from...
Disney Stint to Inspire Figure Skaters
PROMISING figure skater Sophie Guidote hopes that her selection as part of Disney’s Dream Big, Princess campaign will help her motivate young girls to pursue their dreams even at...
No Comeback for Patrick Chan
BOSTON—If ever in his skating life Patrick Chan has had a moment of existential crisis, it would probably have been around 10:58 , Friday night. That’s when the marks...
Gabrielle Daleman’s Top-10 Finish worthy of tears
BOSTON—Oh, the tears of teenage girls. Tears of relief. Tears of regret. For Gabrielle Daleman it was the former. For Alaine Chartrand it was the latter. The 18-year-old Daleman...
Pairs Gold to Duhamel, Radford at Worlds
BOSTON—There is actually no six-hop on-the-dot spring element in the figure skating manual. Or in Figure Skating for Dummies either, our preferred reference guide. But Meagan Duhamel nailed that...
Canada’s Patrick Chan 5th at Worlds
BOSTON—Biggest ovation: Javier Fernandez. Biggest mark: Javier Fernandez. Biggest smile: Javier Fernandez. By quad, by God: Three of them, pristine, exclamatory, for defending and again world champion Javier...
New Jersey Skaters Take Bronze at U.S. Synchronized Championships
Five young women from New Jersey were part of a team that won a bronze medal recently at the Synchronized Skating Championships. Grace Fanning (a junior at Scotch...
The Case for Sharapova
Figure Skaters Discussed “WADA will refrain from commenting further until a decision has been issued by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Following that, WADA will review the reasons for...