Figure skating is one of the most watched events in the Winter Olympics. The combination of artistry and athleticism on ice is something that’s impossible to look away from, but it’s not always easy ...

Study up! Here is a handy guide for some common elements you will see in many figure skaters’ programs. There are six types of jump seen in men’s and women’s skating. In order of most to least ...

Figure skating is not all about the jumps. But even the most diehard skaters and fans who will tune into the figure skating programs during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will tell you that it’s mostly ...

Let's make no bones about it: the headlining sport in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. No other sport comes close to the drama, the athletes, the subplots, and politics that figure skating has.

Triple Axel! Quad Salchow! Triple Lutz with triple loop in combination! If you, like most people, only watch figure skating about once every four years, you may wish you knew what the difference is ...

In women's figure skating, which started on Tuesday, one of the toughest is the triple axel. One thing in particular makes it different from the other triple jumps. Very few women have it as part of ...

Olympian Surya Bonaly may be best remembered for rattling the judges during her 1998 Nagano Olympics free program when she—gasp!—performed a backflip. Backflips were, and still are, illegal in ...