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Isabeau Levito delivers for her psyche, U.S. figure skating with world champs silver medal. March 23, 2024. MONTREAL — Isabeau Levito’s first world championships medal could not have come at a better time for herself and for U.S. figure skating.
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Jun 9, 2022 · “Figure skating section of ISU Congress approved reduction of component scores from five to three. Remaining are Composition, Skating Skills and Presentation (formerly Performance.) Gone are Transitions and Interpretation of the Music. The idea was to simplify & end overlap”
Mar 27, 2021 · “3 / Mitch Moyer, high performance director for U.S. Figure Skating, said Saturday it was likely a top-nine finish would be necessary.”
- Evan vs. Evgeni
- 'Queen yuna'
- Davis and White Break Through
- Brown's 'Riverdance' Delights
- No Almost About It
- Russian Women Reign Supreme
- Triple Threat
- Mirai: 'Never Give Up'
- ‘What A Talent’
There was a real irony in the war of words surrounding the men’s singles competition at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. While 2006 Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko of Russia and his coach, Alexei Mishin, decried Evan Lysacek’s programs as “last century” and “ice dancing” because Lysacek did not do a quad, it was Team Plushenko’s failure to take full ...
The pressure on South Korea’s Yuna Kim at the 2010 Olympics was enormous. That is why what she did in Vancouver was the greatest performance in the 11 Winter Olympics I have covered. Her free skate is one of the rare performances that seems to get better every time I watch it. This is how I described it that night: “Skating a stunningly difficult p...
U.S. ice dancing had a breakthrough in 2005 when Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto became the country’s first World dance medalists in 20 years. Eight years before that, when making the top six at global championships still was an achievement for U.S. couples, an 8-year-old boy named Charlie White and a 9-year-old girl named Meryl Davis had been thrown ...
I have seen few audiences go as gaga over a performance as the crowd in Boston did over Jason Brown’s “Riverdance” free skate at the 2014 U.S. Championships. Brown had the TD Garden audience standing, shouting and clapping with 10 seconds left. The judges applauded in their way, giving Brown first place in the free skate and second overall. That ea...
When she barely missed the 2010 Olympic team, Ashley Wagner began to call herself the “almost girl.” That epithet applied again when she almost failed to make the 2014 team after having won the previous two U.S. titles. Many who did not understand the selection system blasted the decision to put her on the team over Mirai Nagasu, who had beaten Wag...
When Sochi, Russia, was selected as the 2014 Winter Olympic host in 2007, the country’s then prime minister, Vladimir Putin, made it clear that Russia should prepare to win a bunch of medals and backed that with financial support. No Russian athletes have been greater beneficiaries of Putin’s diktat than its female singles skaters. This was a count...
I was sitting in the stands, idly chatting while watching the next-to-last practice before the women’s final at the 2018 Olympics, when something suddenly compelled my full attention. It was so startling I had to ask friends sitting nearby if I had really seen what I thought I had. Alina Zagitova of Russia had done a triple Lutz followed by a tripl...
Mirai Nagasu took a journey from 2010 through 2018 that was a roller coaster of overwhelming emotions for both her and those who followed it as journalists or as fans. In 2010, two years after winning the U.S. title at age 14, she was an insouciant delight at her first Olympics with a no-words-barred approach and stream-of-consciousness ramblings. ...
One funny thing about Alysa Liu’s historic ascent to the top of U.S. women’s skating in her senior national debut is how unsurprising it was. And another funny thing was Liu needing a hand from each of her closest rivals to reach the top step of the awards platform after she won, because it too high for her to jump onto. It was no surprise that aft...
By Philip Hersh. In what may be an unprecedented action, U.S. Figure Skating has reprimanded and fined Rachael for failure to report the injury that dramatically affected her performance at...
Chock and Bates are the defending champions going into this week’s World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, where another medal of any color would be their fifth, making them the most decorated U.S. ice dance team ever at the world meet.
