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.

The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop, salchow ...

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 ...

First, it’s important to know, first, that each skate blade has two edges with a curve -- or hollow -- in the middle. If you stand with your feet together, the edges that face each other are the ...

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 ...

This is Trusova’s third entry into the Guinness Book of World Records as she previously was noted for performing the quad toe loop jump and a quad toe lutz MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Russia’s two-time ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Top-level figure skating is extremely popular with TV viewers, who love the athleticism and grave of the sport. But ask most people to tell you what a lutz is... or how the toe loop ...

After the second of three days of competition, U.S. ice skaters are on track to reach the medal podium in team skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics. While gold may be a challenge, silver is within ...

BRIAN BOITANO WILL NEVER FORGET how badly his gold-medal skate began at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. As he readied to step on the ice, a good-luck hug from a friend inexplicably started him bawling.

SAN JOSE, California - The subject of a five-revolution jump was sure to come up, now that Ilia Malinin has become the first person to land a fully rotated quadruple Axel, which has four and one-half ...