The news hit Japan and the skating world like a thunderbolt last Monday night when Mao Asada announced she was retiring from the sport. A true giant was departing. There was no other way to put it. The three-time world champion decided it was time to ...
It has been 12 days now since Yuzuru Hanyu's epic free skate at the world championships in Helsinki won him a second title, and rather than receding into the memory banks of our minds, it continues to resonate. The more Ice Time watches it, the ...
Marin Honda saved her best for last. After struggling through a season in which she admitted that being the reigning world junior champion had created stress for her, Honda responded with two fine programs to earn the silver medal behind Russia's Alina Zagitova at the ...
Reigning world junior champion Marin Honda traveled to Canton, Michigan, recently to spend time working with coach and choreographer Marina Zoueva at the Arctic Edge Ice Arena. Honda is tuning up for defense of her title at the world junior championships in Taipei this ...
The one-year countdown to the Pyeongchang Games began Thursday with Yuna Kim revealing the Olympic torch and organizers opening online ticket reservations. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and an International Olympic Committee delegation led by Gunilla Lindberg, who heads the IOC's coordination commission for ...
Collecting her second straight European title with a world-record score last Friday, Evgenia Medvedeva emphatically reinforced that she is a prohibitive favorite for the gold medal in Pyeongchang next year. This is presuming that she and her fellow Russians will be allowed to compete in ...
Russian's Evgenia Medvedeva won gold at the European Championships with a world record score on Friday for her second straight title in the women's competition. Leading after the short program, the 17-year-old performed an almost perfect free skate. She opened in great fashion with a ...
Freed from the constraints of competition, retired athletes often change directions. Some go into business, a few into TV, others into coaching or various endeavors. For two-time world champion Miki Ando, it is all of the above. The former skating star looks to be more popular ...
There is nothing in life like a moment of serendipity. Ice Time had one of these recently and it could not have worked out better. On my way to the second day of the Japan Junior Championships in Sapporo last month, I walked down to the ...
Could Yuna Kim be awarded the Olympic gold medal from the Sochi Games after all? Given the shocking evidence produced this week in the World Anti-Doping Agency's McLaren Report, it is a fair question. Just to review, Russia's Adelina Sotnikova was awarded the gold on home ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That was the feeling Ice Time had after watching the world championships in Boston unfold last week. Every time figure skating tries to take a step forward, it inevitably moves backward. Just over two years removed ...
When Yuna Kim retired after her controversial second-place finish at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, many felt it was too abrupt an end to a brilliant career for the 23-year-old. It turns out fans and the media were not the only ones who felt that way. In ...
