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Newest additions to Blandair Park include 15, 000-square-foot skate park
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (519+ words) A long-awaited skate park opened in Howard County this month, marking a major milestone in a decades-long plan to enhance Columbia's Blandair Regional Park. The county held a ribbon-cutting ceremony June 5, two years after the groundbreaking for Phase 6 of the…...
Femke Kok beats Jutta Leerdam in speedskating's 500 and adds an Olympic title to her world record
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (635+ words) And, well, Kok did, too. Embracing those expectations rather than fighting them, Kok extended her two-year-plus unbeaten streak at her sport's shortest distance Sunday, adding a gold medal and the Olympic record to her world mark, beating Jackson head-to-head in…...
Figure skaters with disabilities seek a place in the Paralympic spotlight
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (937+ words) By JAMES ELLINGWORTH, AP Sports Writer As a long jumper, Stef Reid never thought she'd need to learn how to land on ice. Now she's part of a movement hoping to get figure skating into the Paralympics. Skating sports are…...
Jordan Stolz is 4th in his last Olympic speedskating race. Dutch skaters win the mass start golds
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) The gold in the women's mass start, the last speedskating event at these Olympics, also went to a Dutch skater: reigning world champion Marijke Groenewoud, who hadn't finished better than seventh in her other three races in Milan. Ivanie Blondin…...
Alysa Liu walked away from skating. Her fresh outlook when she returned helped her win Olympic gold
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (949+ words) By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and carefree attitude never showed any worry or strain when she took the ice for her free skate…...
Madonna sends good luck message to American figure skater Amber Glenn at Olympics
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (420+ words) By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer More like a wish and a dream. Just before Glenn performed her short program at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday night, which is set to Madonna's song "Like a Prayer," she received a…...
Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam wins women's 1, 000 Olympic gold with fianc" Jake Paul in the stands
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (486+ words) Stepping to the line well aware that her talented Dutch teammate, Femke Kok, had bettered the event's existing Winter Games record two heats earlier Monday, and with Paul getting out of his second-row seat to cheer, Leerdam lowered that mark…...
Amber Glenn wins 3rd straight US Figure Skating title with brilliant free skate
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (1005+ words) ST. LOUIS " On the ice, Amber Glenn was putting together another brilliant free skate, landing the opening triple axel that has become her hallmark and eventually putting the final touches on a program destined to earn her a third consecutive…...
Eileen Gu takes another wild ride to the Olympics, invites the world to tag along
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (864+ words) Whether she is walking a fashion runway, amping herself up at the top of a mountain or digging into one of those physics lessons she takes "for fun," Olympic champion Eileen Gu can probably boil down her main goals to…...
Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (968+ words) It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed "Quad God" who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought…...