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U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin competes during the men's short program at the ISU World Team Trophy at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Thursday.
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Apr 18, 2025
Malinin and Liu help U.S. take early lead at skating's World Team Trophy
Malinin, who won his second world title last month in Boston, topped the men's short program in Tokyo with a score of 106.08.
Alysa Liu reacts after her free skate at the world championships in Boston on March 28.
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Apr 17, 2025
World champion Alysa Liu feels best yet to come with Olympics on horizon
The 19-year-old crowned her comeback with a dazzling win at the world championships in Boston a little less than three weeks ago.
Kaori Sakamoto performs her free skate during the world championships in Boston on Friday.
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Mar 31, 2025
Kaori Sakamoto breathes sigh of relief after world championships
Sakamoto finished in second place behind American Alysa Liu, who made a surprising run to the world title.
Ilia Malinin celebrates after winning gold at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston on Saturday.
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Mar 30, 2025
Malinin retains world title as Kagiyama stumbles
With a dazzling performance, Malinin put the world on notice less than a year to go before the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Gold medalist Alysa Liu (center) is flanked by silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto and bronze medalist Mone Chiba during the medal ceremony for the women's singles event at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston on Friday.
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Mar 30, 2025
Resurgent Liu wins women's figure skating world title over Sakamoto
Liu, who walked away from the sport in 2022 at the age of 16 and returned just a year ago, defied the pressure Sakamoto piled on with a brilliant free skate of her own.
Miura and Kihara celebrate after winning the world pairs title on Thursday in Boston.
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Mar 28, 2025
Miura and Kihara edge German pair to win second world figure skating title
The Japanese duo scored 219.79 points to capture the world crown by 0.71 of a point over Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin.
Alysa Liu competes in the women’s short program during the World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday.
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Mar 27, 2025
Women's skating favorites falter as Liu leads at worlds
Three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto, trying to become the first woman in 65 years to capture four consecutive world crowns, was a disappointing fifth.
Yuma Kagiyama performs during the men's free skate at Finlandia Trophy in Helsinki in November.
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Mar 23, 2025
Top skaters prepare to do battle at worlds as 2026 Olympics loom
From Kaori Sakamoto to the "Quad God," here are five skaters to keep an eye on over the next week in Boston.
The figure skater Maxim Naumov, who lost his parents when an army helicopter collided with a passenger jet above the Potomac River, drops to his knees in tears on the ice at the Legacy on Ice tribute in Washington on Saturday.
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Mar 4, 2025
Figure skating stars pay an emotional tribute to the Washington plane crash victims
Dozens of stars from the sport, going back decades, attended the benefit.
"I hope skaters who train here will go on to shine on the world stage," Olympic silver medalist Mao Asada told the Japan Times at Mao Rink Tachikawa Tachihi, a skating rink in Tachikawa, Tokyo, whose establishment she was involved in, on Jan. 28.
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Feb 11, 2025
Mao Asada sets out to safeguard the future of Japanese skating
Mao Rink Tachikawa Tachihi, a project that involved the three-time world champion, has become a dream destination for skaters.
Former U.S. figure skaters Dick Button and Tenley Albright are introduced during an exhibition event after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston in January 2014.
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Jan 31, 2025
U.S. figure skating great Dick Button dies at 95
Long before he became known for his on-air observations, Button dominated the figure skating world with his athleticism.
A memorial for the Skating Club of Boston members killed in a midair collision between a passenger plane and a U.S. military helicopter on Wednesday is seen at Tenley E. Albright Performance Center, in Boston on Thursday.
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Jan 31, 2025
Tight-knit U.S. figure skating community mourns skaters lost in plane crash
The athletes, coaches and family members on board the flight were returning from the National Development Camp in Kansas.
Winners Yevgenia Shishkova (front right) and Vadim Naumov (rear right) wave to fans during the medal ceremony at the NHK Trophy in Nagoya on Dec. 9, 1995. State-run news in Russia reported that the pair was on board a passenger plane that collided with a U.S. military helicopter in Washington on Wednesday.
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Jan 30, 2025
World champion Russian skaters reportedly on plane involved in midair collision
Shishkova and Naumov won the world championship in pairs in 1994.
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
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Jan 11, 2025
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
The two-time Olympic champion exited the competitive arena in 2022. His overall career goal — to make spectators say "wow" — has not changed.
Ilia Malinin of the U.S. celebrates after winning the men's free skating at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Grenoble, France, on Saturday, alongside second-place finisher Yuma Kagiyama (left) and third-place finisher Shun Sato, both from Japan.
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Dec 8, 2024
U.S. skate stars Malinin and Glenn sweep Grand Prix Final titles
Madison Chock and Evan Bates claimed ice dance gold to make it a clean sweep for the United States on the closing day of competition in Grenoble.
Amber Glenn of the U.S. performs during the women's short program at the ISU Grand Prix in Grenoble, France, on Thursday.
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Dec 6, 2024
American skater Amber Glenn tops Japanese rivals at ISU Grand Prix final
Glenn took a narrow lead over Japan's Mone Chiba in the short program.
Yuma Kagiyama performs his free skate during the Finlandia Trophy in Helsinki on Saturday.
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Nov 17, 2024
Yuma Kagiyama and Hana Yoshida lead Japanese sweep at Finlandia Trophy
Kagiyama, the 2022 Olympic silver medalist, survived a shaky free skate to win gold. Yoshida led a Japanese 1-2 in the women's event.
Japan's Yuma Kagiyama skates during the men's short program of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Helsinki on Friday.
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Nov 16, 2024
Yuma Kagiyama and Hana Yoshida put Japan on top at Finland Grand Prix
The pair led the Finland Grand Prix after convincing short program performances in Helsinki on Friday.
Gold medalist Kaori Sakamoto (center) alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike (left) and bronze medalist Hana Yoshida after Japanese women swept the podium in the women's singles competition at Skate Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday.
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Oct 27, 2024
Kaori Sakamoto leads Japanese women's sweep at Skate Canada
The three-time world champion finished well ahead of compatriots Rino Matsuiki and Hana Yoshida in a dominant showing by Japanese women.
Kaori Sakamoto competes in the short program at Skate Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday.
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Oct 26, 2024
World champion Sakamoto takes Skate Canada lead over Liu
Sakamoto, the defending Skate Canada champion, won the short program with 74.97 points, while compatriot Hana Yoshida sits in fourth.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump points as he boards Air Force One en route to New Jersey, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday.
Travelers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction
Visitors walk along Nakamise-dori as they visit Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district in March.
Tokyo's Yamanote Line resumes suspended train operations
All services on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line in Tokyo were suspended for early Friday morning due to wire trouble.
Onosato set for yokozuna promotion after clinching Emperor’s Cup
Onosato after defeating Kotozakura at Ryokugikan in Tokyo on Friday. The win gave him a 13-0 record and clinched the Emperor's Cup, assuring him of promotion to yokozuna next week.
AI fiction is already here. Are humans ready?
After last year’s controversy over using AI to write about 5% of her novel, Rie Qudan was asked by an advertising magazine to write a short story where she uses AI for 95% of it. The resulting short story, “Kage no ame” (“Rain Shadow”), was published March 25.  
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Paraguayan President Santiago Pena speaks during an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on Thursday.
GCAP next-gen fighter joint venture likely to be running by this summer
A concept model of the Global Combat Air Program's fighter jet is displayed during the DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.
NTT develops world's first 'flying lightning rod' using drones
NTT's drone — aimed at triggering, then redirecting lightning — is described as a "flying lightning rod."

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