There are certain requirements for jumps and spins in performances. Figure skating at the Olympics is set to kick off on Friday, starting with the team event's men's singles short program.

“U.S. Figure Skating can confirm that several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in ...

After fraught end to Olympic figure skating final, some call for raising age limit The quadruple jumps that sent Russian world champ Anna Shcherbakova to the gold medal and teammate Alexandra ...

The country’s figure skating community mourned Thursday in the wake of news that young athletes, coaches and family members made up as much as a third of the 60 passengers on the American ...

American ice dance siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani are returning to competitive figure skating, seven years after the two-times Olympic bronze medallists stepped away from the sport when Maia was ...

History has been made at the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, near Helsinki, Finland, with the world's first transgender national figure skater. Speaking to reporters ahead of the ...

A little more than a month after a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, dozens of past and present stars of U.S. Figure Skating will host a ...

If you thought figure skating—the act of throwing yourself into the air and spinning above a sheet of ice with sharpened blades on your feet—looked like one of sport’s more reckless ...