2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (944+ words) 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 a big gap on the program…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (352+ words) The reigning world champion delivered a stellar short program that featured a triple lutz-triple loop, the hardest combination that any woman tried Tuesday night, and sat two points back of Japan's Ami Nakai and right behind Kaori Sakamoto on the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1027+ words) MILAN " Canada has a team in the hunt for a pairs medal at the Olympics. Only it's not the former world champions. Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud finished third in the pairs short program, while Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (100+ words) MILAN - Canadian short-track star William Dandjinou arrived at the Milan Cortina Olympics as the world's top-ranked skater and a favourite for multiple gold medals. $4.99 $1 per weekfor 24 weeks An All-Access Digital subscription includes unlimited online reading on winnipegfreepress.com, access to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (351+ words) MILAN (AP) " For a while now, Jordan Stolz's talent and dominance as a speedskater, and his much-anticipated potential for Olympic success, prompted many to repeatedly mention his name " prematurely, no doubt " alongside that of Eric Heiden. Now they really do…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (523+ words) Winnipeg -8" C, Partly cloudy with wind MILAN " Deanna Stellato-Dudek's Olympic dream is not over. Defying all odds " again " she and Maxime Deschamps will compete at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Skate Canada said in a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (654+ words) MILAN " Ted-Jan Bloemen wants his children to remember he fought the good fight at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The 39-year-old speedskater, who turned back the clock and laid down one of the fastest 5,000 metres of his life in November,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (504+ words) Gumennik, who is participating as a neutral athlete at the Winter Games, had been working all season to music from "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," a psychological thriller film. But the 23-year-old Russian national champion learned in the last…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (859+ words) Same goes for his American team. Yuma Kagiyama landed a pair of near-perfect quads, one in combination with a triple toe loop, and scored 108.67 points in his short program on Saturday night. That topped Malinin in the segment " he was…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (764+ words) Alysa Liu made sure the defending champion Americans would maintain their lead going into Day 2 of the event. Chock and Bates scored a world-leading 91.06 points to open the three-day competition, where the U.S. is the defending champ, before a packed crowd…...