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There will be plenty of skating to watch during the 2022 Winter Olympics. The differences between ice dancing and pairs figure skating can be tricky. Here’s how to spot them.
Nineteen figure skating pairs are competing in the short program. The top 16 pairs advance to the free skate. Here's what to you need to know about each pair, from music selection to relationship ...
Pairs figure skating, what an elegant sport! But it’s also quite dangerous. The skaters are racing around the rink, sometimes at as much as 15 to 20 miles per hour, lifting each other, throwing ...
China in particular has been building momentum as a pairs figure skating powerhouse, after Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo earned the country’s first Olympic medal, a bronze, in the 2002 Salt Lake City ...
The best part of watching pairs figure skating and the ice dancing competitions is guessing whether or not the duo are dating off the ice. Well, you no longer have to guess for the 2022 Beijing ...
U.S. Olympic pairs figure skating coach Dalilah Sappenfield, under investigation for 2½ years, was banned for life Wednesday afternoon by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for violations including ...
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong are set to return to pairs' figure skating competition next season for the first time since winning the 2022 Olympic title on home ice in Beijing. Sui, 29, and Han, 32 ...
In a separate incident, Mitch Moyer, then-U.S. Figure Skating’s senior director of athlete high performance, directed an operation to remove a 16-year-old female Russian pairs skater from ...
Lifts are the trademark element of pairs figure skating. For generations, fans have been intrigued by a man lifting a woman over his head while skating. It was an extreme sport before ESPN ...
A Scots figure skating pair have seen their "dream come true" after being told that they're set to compete at the Olympics.