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…
Alysa Liu vs. Kamila Valieva in World Junior Figure Skating Championships
From REUTERS : The two immensely talented skaters are set to make their debut at the Junior Worlds which will run from March 2 to 8 in Tallinn. Rising Russian…
Shoma Uno’s new coach Stephane Lambiel gives insight into skater’s renewed focus
Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan parted ways with his longtime coaches at the end of last season and began the current season coachless. After disastrous performances on the…
Lake Placid Show honors 1980 Olympic figure skating team
Lake Placid's 40th anniversary celebration of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games The stories told were many, from those of triumph to those of disappointment, but they all seemed to include…
Meet South Jersey’s phenom figure skater with big Olympic hopes
“My mom always loved figure skating. She would watch it on TV and just me being a little toddler, I would just copy everything the skater was doing,” said Levito,…
