figure skating

2030 Winter Olympics adds freeride, synchro skating; drops Nordic combined

The International Olympic Committee Executive Board on Tuesday announced the finalized sport program for the Alpes 2030 Olympic Winter Games, ushering in freeride skiing and snowboarding and synchronized figure skating while removing Nordic combined from the Games for the first…

Japan wins historic first Olympic pairs figure skating gold

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara delivered Japan's first-ever Olympic gold medal in pairs figure skating on Monday at the Milano Ice Skating Arena, producing a career-best performance to vault from fifth place after the short program to the top of…

France upsets US to claim Olympic ice dance gold in Milan

French ice dancers Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron claimed Olympic gold on Wednesday night in Milan, narrowly defeating American favorites Madison Chock and Evan Bates by 1.43 points in one of the most thrilling ice dance competitions in Olympic…

Malinin surges into lead in Olympic men’s figure skating

American figure skater Ilia Malinin delivered his strongest performance of the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday evening, executing two quadruple jumps and his signature backflip to surge into first place in the men's short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Ilia Malinin lands first legal Olympic backflip in 50 years

Twenty-one-year-old Ilia Malinin made a historic Olympic debut Saturday at the Milan Ice Skating Arena, delivering on his mission to reshape figure skating while becoming the first athlete to legally perform a backflip at the Winter Games since the move…