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CNN — The United States Figure Skating team will receive a gold medal for their team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was handed a four-year ban Monday over a long-running doping controversy. Valieva, now 17, had led the Russian Olympic Committee to first place in the team […]
Athletes representing over 20 countries are lacing up their figure skates for another international competition. That competition, the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships in Lake Placid, features a talented cast, including former U.S. Olympian Debi Thomas, making her return to figure skating at 56 years old. “I hadn’t done figures in 35 years,” Thomas […]
A silver medal marks another historic moment for Black women. On Oct. 29, Skate Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, announced 21-year-old Starr Andrews as the first U.S. Black figure skater to win an International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix medal in the series history that dates back to 1995.
Starr Andrews of the United States performs her free skating program at the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Mississauga, Ontario, on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. Photo: Paul Chiasson (AP) Starr Andrews
Ilia Malinin, the 17-year-old figure skater from Vienna, Va., who has quickly captivated the sport with an array of seemingly effortless jumps, became the first skater to ever land a quadruple Axel in competition Wednesday night at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Lake Placid, N.Y. Malinin, who had previously landed the . . […]
Retiring from by choice is rare within the athletic community, as oftentimes injury or age ending their career. But for U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, she decided it was her time at just 16 years old. Liu said she’s had “insane 11 years” years on the ice with “a lot of good and a lot […]
American women’s figure skating star Alysa Liu is retiring from the sport, she announced Saturday. Liu, who made her international senior debut last summer, is 16 years old. “Heyyyyy so i’m here to announce that i am retiring from skating,” Liu wrote in an Instagram post. “I started skating when i was 5 so that’s […]
EULESS, Texas (KXAN) — The Olympic dream had almost died for one Olympic hopeful just outside of Dallas. Amber Glenn is a U.S. Figure Skater in Euless. She’s the reigning U.S. national silver medalist, and U.S. Junior Champion. In the midst of her high moments, there have been low ones too — which is why […]
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