Jacob Sanchez has flown under the radar the past couple years. The 19-year-old American skater had some solid credentials to his name coming into last year's Olympic season (2024 JGP Final champion, 2024 Talinn Trophy winner, 4th place at 2025 Junior Worlds). But, in a U.S. men's field that included technical phenom and World champion …
The 2026-2027 figure skating season started this past weekend at the ISU Challenger Series Cranberry Cup, hosted by the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, MA. It’s an early-season competition in a post-Olympic year, which typically starts “slow,” with skaters taking longer to come back to the ice and finish putting together their programs. This …
Olympic team gold medalist Amber Glenn shares her views on issues affecting Olympic sports.
Italian figure skating champion Lara Naki Gutmann talks about competing at her home-country Olympics in Milano-Cortina this winter, where she won a team bronze medal for Italy.
Canadian ice dancers Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha talk about how the Olympics motivated them to change their approach for Worlds.
2025 World silver medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is looking to upgrade his technical content this season, as he prepares for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Games.
Pairs skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava look forward to their first Olympics together, competing for Georgia. Reporter Victoria Burdman spoke with the duo at Skate America to learn more about their mindset and preparations for the Olympic season.
French ice dancers Evgenia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud look to reach the top level of their sport and make the French Olympic team.
“We learned a big lesson this year: Material matters,” Olivia Smart said in the mixed zone at the 2025 ISU World Championships in Boston, MA. “No matter the skate, no matter what you do on that day, the material and the program you present have got to be strong. It truly makes such a difference …
Ice dancers Hannah Lim and Ye Quan have represented South Korea for three seasons now, and Lim has South Korean citizenship through her parents. But this week’s ISU Four Continents marks the first time Quan will compete internationally as a citizen of South Korea. It seems particularly fitting, then, that the event takes place in …
