3+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1179+ words) It started, for Donald Telford, with a school skate party and a sense of fatherly responsibility powerful enough to risk bruising his tailbone. Telford's daughter, Alyson, was 6 years old. And "she had a terrible time that night." "She was being…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1167+ words) Is there anybody out there who hasn't fallen in love with Alysa Liu yet? Kim Jong Un, maybe? These days, can you really have an Oscar party or a fashion week or an awards show or the Met Gala without…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (583+ words) Yet there was the Japanese 17-year-old leading a pair of world champions in the Milano Cortina Olympic Games women's figure skating competition going into Thursday's free skate. Nakai became only the fourth woman in Olympic history to successfully land a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (684+ words) MILAN " When American pairs skater Danny O'Shea was 10 years old, he sat down and made a list of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. In 2010, he would be 18. That would be his Olympics, he decided. As easy as that, right? O'Shea…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (584+ words) The self-styled "Quad God," who led by a comfortable margin after the short program, merely had to deliver a mediocre performance to add individual gold to his team gold medal. Instead, the 21-year-old Malinin was trying to fight back tears…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1619+ words) MILAN " Weeks or months from now, years or maybe decades, maybe at some point in the long life ahead of him, Ilia Malinin will find himself in a dark or honest place where he finally understands the wave of negativity…...

5+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (1447+ words) MILAN " Jutta Leerdam has made a career of keeping us guessing. What will Jutta do next? Around the speed skating oval? "Jutta! Jutta! Jutta!" roared the crowd in a deafening chant had echoed across Milan all night as Leerdam clapped…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (357+ words) MILAN " This time there would be no waiting. This time, they wouldn't have to wait for the International Olympic Committee or the International Skating Union or the World Anti-Doping Agency to step up and do the right thing. This time…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (868+ words) MILAN " Amber Glenn grew up in a sport that was always judging her. On and off the ice. A sport that likes to fit little girls into neat little boxes. Problem was that Glenn couldn't squeeze into a lot figure…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1478+ words) As Alysa Liu recently recounted how she spent her two years of self-imposed exile from figure skating the joy she found in a sense of normalcy and the nonchalance with which she has a tendency to shrug off the extraordinary…...