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Figure skating news, Olympics coverage and stories from adult skaters.
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Ilia Malinin is the only skater to land a quad axel in competition and the first to land all six quads. We look at his records, his family, what happened at the 2026 Olympics and the world title he won a month later.
Olympics
Comebacks, first golds and the skaters who got there the long way. Five to start with.
Skater stories
Skater stories
Every figure skating medal from the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, with the scores and the stories behind them, from the men's upset to Alysa Liu's gold.
Kaori Sakamoto came to her last Olympics chasing the one title she didn't have, and she left Milan with individual and team silver. A month later she won a fourth world title in Prague and retired.
Amber Glenn came through an eating disorder, two concussions and years of being told she was too much, then won Olympic team gold in Milan at 26.
She became the youngest U.S. champion at 13, retired at 16, hiked to Everest base camp, came back to win Worlds, and just won Olympic gold in Milan, the first American woman to do it in 24 years.
How Canadian ice dancer Piper Gilles came back from surgery and a stage 1 ovarian cancer diagnosis, five years after losing her mother to brain cancer, to win Olympic bronze with Paul Poirier in Milan.
Danny O'Shea was a 2018 Olympic alternate who retired twice and worked in real estate before he teamed up with Ellie Kam. At 34 he helped the U.S. win team gold in Milan by a single point, and he turned...
Figure skaters have been allowed music with lyrics since 1997-98 in ice dance and since 2014-15 in singles and pairs. We also cover today's time limits and music requirements, and how music rights caused trouble at the 2026 Olympics.
The backflip was banned in figure skating for almost 50 years. Here's why, what Surya Bonaly did in 1998, what changed in 2024, what a backflip scores today and how it played out at the 2026 Olympics.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek retired at 17, spent 16 years away from the ice and came back at 33. She won the 2024 world pairs title at 40 and skated at the 2026 Olympics at 42.
The podiums, scores and stories from the 2026 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis, the Olympic team that came out of them, and how that team did in Milan.
Skater spotlight
Adult skaters tell us how they got on the ice and what keeps them coming back.
Liz, a marketing manager in Boston, signed up for Learn to Skate after her wedding and was hooked by the end of the session.
Makenzie, a mechanical engineer from Brisbane, started skating lessons after high school, and the Axel is her favorite jump.
Megan, a graphic designer from western Pennsylvania, went back to Learn to Skate at 25 and has tested through Adult Gold Moves in the Field.
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