by admin | Jan 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kamila Valieva bettered her own world-best score in the women’s short program to take the lead Thursday at the European figure skating championships. It was another successful day for Russia, which also swept the podium in the pairs event. Read More
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Thursday night at the U.S. Olympic figure skating trials, as younger women started to secure their places on the 2022 Olympic team, another woman, an older skater with the name that everyone still knows, offered a glimpse of her magical past on her singular journey...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The two oldest skaters produced the most memorable performances of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships women’s short program. Mariah Bell, a 25-year-old bidding to be the oldest U.S. Olympic women’s singles skater in 94 years and the oldest national champion in 95...
by admin | Jan 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Reigning U.S. figure skating champion Bradie Tennell withdrew from next week’s national championships due to a chronic right foot injury, ruling her out of Olympic consideration unless she petitions for a spot on the team. Tennell, the top U.S. woman at the 2018...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kamila Valiyeva confirmed she’s a runaway Olympic favorite by winning the Russian Championships, the world’s deepest women’s figure skating competition, by the largest margin in the event’s history. Valiyeva, a 15-year-old undefeated in this her first senior season,...
by admin | Nov 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kamila Valieva headed a Russian women’s podium sweep at the figure skating Rostelecom Cup on Saturday to underline her status as favorite for the Olympic gold medal in Beijing. The 15-year-old Valieva landed three quadruple jumps, two of them in combinations, to...
by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Anna Shcherbakova successfully navigated a bumpy early part of figure skating’s Olympic season. Next comes a series of bigger tests, likely climaxing at the Winter Games in February. Shcherbakova, who holds the two most prestigious titles as world champion and Russian...
by admin | Nov 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Anna Shcherbakova, a 17-year-old from Moscow, toted the two most prestigious titles in figure skating into this Olympic season: world champion and Russian national champion. But the sport’s top label — Olympic favorite — has been swiped by her 15-year-old training...
by admin | Jun 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s a sport laced with creativity, beauty and strength. Ice dance is poetry in motion, two skaters weaving gracefully across the ice surface together as one. Their precision and symmetry is something to marvel over. But figure skating is also littered...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Famer and former Olympian John Zimmerman was suspended from the sport after allegations that he covered up the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old female skater that he coached, according to USA Today’s Christine Brennan. Zimmerman was...
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