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There will be plenty of skating to watch during the 2022 Winter Olympics. The differences between ice dancing and pairs figure skating can be tricky. Here’s how to spot them.
Nineteen figure skating pairs are competing in the short program. The top 16 pairs advance to the free skate. Here's what to you need to know about each pair, from music selection to relationship ...
Pairs teams closed out the dramatic and controversial figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics on Feb. 19. Sixteen teams took to the ice, and for the second time, China earned gold. The ...
This year, pairs is the final figure skating event to compete, a complete switch from the way things usually go. In fact, until these Games, pairs has been the first of the four disciplines to ...
SOCHI, Russia -- Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir share the same birthday – Aug. 20. That doesn't mean the stars always have been aligned for them to be skating together here in Olympics pairs.
The pairs figure skating free skate event will take place on Saturday as the Olympics comes to a close Both American teams have qualified for the pairs figure skating final at the Winter Olympics ...
The first half of the pairs figure skating competition at the 2022 Olympics is in the books, with China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong sitting in first place with a score of 84.41 after the short ...
Pairs figure skating, what an elegant sport! But it’s also quite dangerous. The skaters are racing around the rink, sometimes at as much as 15 to 20 miles per hour, lifting each other, throwing ...
The best part of watching pairs figure skating and the ice dancing competitions is guessing whether or not the duo are dating off the ice. Well, you no longer have to guess for the 2022 Beijing ...
At the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai, five of the top seven pair teams attempted a quad element in their free skates: three quadruple twists, and two throw quadruple salchows.
In a separate incident, Mitch Moyer, then-U.S. Figure Skating’s senior director of athlete high performance, directed an operation to remove a 16-year-old female Russian pairs skater from ...