Figure Skating

Former ice dancer Chris Reed, who represented Japan for more than a decade, died on Saturday of a heart attack in Detroit, according to a published report. He was 30. Yahoo Japan was the first media outlet to report his death. The Japan Skating Federation ...

The World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Montreal next week has been canceled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, a Quebec provincial official announced on Wednesday. Health Minister Danielle McCann told a news conference the event, which was scheduled to begin on Monday and run ...

Adelina Sotnikova, who became Russia's first woman to win figure skating singles gold, announced Monday she is ending her career at 23 after a long break from the sport. "I want to say one thing officially, I've definitely finished with professional sport," she told Russian ...

Evan Lysacek glided across the ice so effortlessly you could forget he was doing it on a bum ankle. Skating around Yokohama Bank Ice Arena during a skating clinic Thursday morning, Lysacek was doing simple movements, stuff you start out with when you get to ...

Yuzuru Hanyu took gold at the Four Continents on Sunday, following his record-breaking men's short program performance by topping the field in the free skate. Despite touching the ice on his opening quadruple Lutz and falling on a quad toe loop, Japan's two-time Olympic champion ...

Yuzuru Hanyu's bid to recapture the world title he last won in 2017 meant turning back the clock and being himself, one of his coaches, Ghislain Briand, said Monday ahead of this week's Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. After runner-up finishes at the Grand Prix ...

Double Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu will go back to the short and free programs that won him the men's singles gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, a source close to the matter said Sunday. The 25-year-old Hanyu missed out on gold in major competitions ...

In the biggest competition of his career, Yuma Kagiyama rose to the occasion and gave the performance of his life on Sunday. The 16-year-old star roared back from being seven points behind and in third place after the short program to win the gold medal ...

For the past several years, announcer Ted Barton's goal has been to help globalize figure skating by providing free video streams of the sport to skaters, fans and media. The Canadian's quest began at home where he set up streams along with Skate Canada to ...