1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (679+ words) Turns out they were just making it more dramatic. The two-time defending world champions rebounded Monday night with a world-record free skate under the current scoring system, lifting them from fifth place all the way to the top step of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (372+ words) Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champ after she won the first Winter Games gold medal by an American woman in more than two decades....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (615+ words) Former pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the 67 people killed " more than two dozen of them members of the figure skating community " when American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed into a military helicopter on approach to Ronald Reagan…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago  (446+ words) Now that the just-concluded Winter Olympics have been hailed for setting "a new, very high standard" by IOC President Kirsty Coventry, Italian organizers are contemplating a bid for the 2040 Summer Games. "I think our country deserves another Summer Olympics," Italian…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (275+ words) Her time was was 0.06 faster than Wiklund's. Valerie Maltais of Canada took the bronze, 0.31 behind Rijpma-de Jong. Each medalist in the 1,500 will leave the Milano Speed Skating Stadium with multiple prizes. Rijpma-de Jong already had a silver from team pursuit;…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (936+ words) 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 on Thursday night. Instead, Liu waved…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (951+ words) Off the ice, Alysa Liu was cheering her on. With her newly dyed halo hairdo going viral, Liu had stuck around after her own spectacular showing inside of the packed Enterprise Center, and she didn't seem to care Friday night…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (583+ words) Nakai, Sakamoto and Mone Chiba give Japan the chance for the first-ever women's podium sweep. Then there is Adeliia Petrosian, the young Russian sprite competing as a neutral athlete, and the only one of the contenders who has the ability…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (948+ words) It was 70 years ago this month. It might as well have been seven days ago. "It was so beautiful, up there in the mountains," recalled Albright, who had won the Olympic silver medal four years earlier, and was favorite to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (395+ words) Heiden, of course, did it as part of his record sweep of all five individual events at the 1980 Lake Placid Games for the U.S., taking everything from the 500 to the 10,000, and all in Olympic-record time. Stolz finished the 500 in an Olympic-record…...