With Olympic figure skating in full swing, viewers who don't pay much attention to sports are tuning in. A mix of artistry and athleticism, figure skating at the Winter Olympics brings a unique ...

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 ...

Only one skater in history has landed the quad axel in competition. Ilia Malinin, a 21-year-old American, first executed this difficult and seemingly impossible jump two and half years ago and has ...

In one of the most improbable comebacks in the history of figure skating, Alysa Liu of the United States, who quit the sport after the 2022 Beijing Olympics, reclaimed her career on her own joyous ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Figure skating’s rotational revolution is settled. When the sport’s ...

Figure skating has been an official Olympic event for well over a century, having made its debut appearance (oddly enough, at a Summer Olympics, not at a Winter Olympics) way back in London in 1908.

Mark Schofield is a former college quarterback and attorney covering the NFL and F1. Perhaps the marquee event of any Winter Olympics, women’s individual figure skating got underway Tuesday and Italy.