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Former Olympic ice skater Susan Jackson now teaches kids to skate in Knoxville
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (60+ words) WBIR Former Olympic ice skater Susan Jackson now teaches kids to skate in Knoxville To stream WBIR on your phone, you need the WBIR app. Download the WBIR app Next up in 5 Example video title will go here for this…...
Olympic champion Alysa Liu withdraws from world figure skating championships
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (370+ words) WASHINGTON " Olympic figure skating champion'Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champ after she won'the first Winter Games gold medal by an American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. Liu…...
What Olympic records were broken at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games?
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (336+ words) WASHINGTON " As the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina draw to a close, the Games delivered no shortage of historic performances. Nine Olympic records were broken " all on Milan's ice tracks " across speed skating and short track speed skating. Seven came…...
Did US speedskater Jordan Stolz win his third gold medal at the 2026 Olympics?
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (296+ words) MILAN, Italy " The final speedskating event at the Milan Cortina Games had a shocking finish." The men's mass start speedskating final began at 10: 40 a. m. Eastern, with Team USA's Jordan Stolz starting seventh in the discipline. He was the only U. S. competitor racing…...
Why did Alysa Liu retire from figure skating in 2022?
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (292+ words) WASHINGTON " Alysa Liu ended Team USA's 24-year gold medal drought in women's figure skating Thursday, delivering a career-best performance in the free skate to capture Olympic gold. The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area scored 226. 79 points, the highest total…...
Alysa Liu wins 1st Olympic women's figure skating gold medal for US in 24 years
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (473+ words) MILAN, Italy " Team USA's 24-year gold medal drought in women's figure skating is over, thanks to Alysa Liu and her phenomenal performance Thursday in the'women's free skate. Liu was in third place coming into the free skate, in the best…...
Jordan Stolz aims for 3rd Olympic gold in speed skating. Here's how to watch him in the men's 1500m
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (330+ words) MILAN, Italy " American speed skater Jordan Stolz, who has won two gold medals at the 2026 Games and set Olympic records in the 500 meters and 1, 000 meters, is taking to the ice again for the men's 1, 500 meters. The 21-year-old from Wisconsin will…...
Did Jordan Stolz win his 2nd gold medal in the 500 meters speed skating race?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (279+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan " American speed skater Jordan Stolz won his second gold medal in the 2026 Winter Games and set a new Olympic record Saturday in the men's speed skating 500-meter finals." Stolz, a 21-year-old from Wisconsin, finished with…...
Amber Glenn makes her Olympic debut in women's free skate. Here's how she did.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (575+ words) MILAN, Italy " Amber Glenn made her Olympic debut Sunday in the women's free skate." Glenn made history as the oldest U. S. women's singles skater to compete at the Olympics in 98 years at the age of 26, according to a report by NBC....
Milan Cortina Olympics apologizes for podium surface damaging skaters' blades
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (375+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan " The organizing committee for the Milan Cortina Olympics is apologizing for the surface of the podium used at the Milano Ice Skating Arena that caused minor damage to the blades of figure skaters'celebrating their team…...