Morozov holds Tarasova up in a lift – Credit: Getty Images At its best, pairs figure skating is not only beautiful but thrilling, in a hold-your-breath kind of way. It is a high-wire act of throws and twists and ever-more-complex ...
Han lifts Sui while they spin – Credit: Getty Images Before the 2022 Winter Olympics began, the highest pairs short program score ever recorded under the current judging system was 82.36. That mark has been passed an astonishing five times ...
Cain-Gribble and LeDuc perform a death spiral – Credit: Getty Images Will the Chinese team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong win gold at their home Olympics? Or will reigning world champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov bring the Russian Olympic Committee its third figure skating win of these ...
Han Cong throws Sui Wenjing – Credit: Getty Images The fifth and final figure skating medal event of the 2022 Winter Olympics gets underway Friday, Feb. 18, with the pairs short program. And the 19-team field is stacked. Two world ...
Kamila Valieva skates during the figure skating women singles short program – Credit: Getty Images At a few minutes before 9 a.m. ET Tuesday, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva whispered onto the ice at the Capital Indoor Stadium (where ...
Valieva looks up toward the sky – Credit: Getty Images How do you watch with any pleasure an Olympic event in which the International Olympic Committee has all but called one of the competitors a pariah? Not just any competitor, ...
Kamila Valieva poses with both arms out – Credit: Getty Images Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto is doing her best to get in the way of what was long expected to be a historic podium sweep by the Russian Olympic Committee women’s figure skaters ...
Mariah Bell practices – Credit: Getty Images One of the most anticipated events at any Winter Olympics, the women’s singles figure skating competition, gets underway Tuesday, Feb. 15, with the short program. The three competitors from the Russian Olympic Committee ...
U.S. figure skating team waves while holding stuffed animals – Credit: Getty Images Figure skaters who were in line for medals following the figure skating team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics will have to wait beyond the Games to ...
Nathan Chen poses with American flag – Credit: Getty Images Nathan Chen competed three times in the course of a week at the 2022 Winter Olympics. He topped the leaderboard in each of those programs and emerged from the Games with ...