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.
2025 Saatva Skate America, the fifth of six events in the 2025 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series, took place November 14-16 in Lake Placid, New York. The last time the event was held in Lake Placid was 2017. This winter wonderland of a town was also home to the 1980 and 1932 Winter …
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The ISU Grand Prix series officially starts this weekend at the Grand Prix de France in Angers. Skating fans have already seen many top competitors at Challenger Series events, but now things will start to get serious. We are now less than 4 months away from the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, so the window …
Competitive ice dance is all about female and male partners creating beautiful shapes and stories together on the ice. Behind the scenes, however, the sport has struggled with issues of gendered power imbalances, and Olympic champion Gabriella Papadakis recently wrote about how female partners are often undervalued. Fortunately, this is not the case for rising …
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All photos courtesy of Janet Liu For top U.S. skaters, this season started and will hopefully end in Boston, MA. The past few weeks saw several skating events in the Boston area: Cranberry Cup, the season’s first ISU Challenger Series competition; Champs Camp, the U.S. federation’s high-performance training camp; and Summer Sizzler, a show held …
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Jimmy Ma, 28, ended last season brilliantly with a career-high 5th place at the 2023 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and a small medal at 2023 ISU Four Continents Championships, where he placed third in the short program. This season, however, was another story entirely. Ma struggled this past fall, placing a disappointing 9th and 11th …
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Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville head into today’s senior free dance at the 2024 Prevagen U.S. Championships in Columbus, Ohio, in fourth place after a sparkling rhythm dance on Thursday. It’s been a season of continued growth for Bratti, 21, and Somerville, 23, who train at the Michigan Ice Dance Academy (MIDA) with coaches Greg …
Marie-France Dubreuil, co-head coach and co-founder of the Ice Academy of Montreal (I.AM), coaches many of the top ice dance teams in the world, including reigning World champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates. Dubreuil is also a highly esteemed choreographer–and not only for ice dancers, but other disciplines as well. Dubreuil had to tackle some …
Photos by Robin Ritoss Photography Three competitions, three medals. It appears the new partnership of Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea has found instant success. Last month, the new pairs team won the bronze medal at the 2023 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California. They will compete this week at the 2023 ISU Four Continents Championships …
Schuster: It was a great experience for us. It was a little bit shaky. But we did our best. It was not a clean skate, but I think we can proud of new stuff for us. Roscher: It was a really great experience because it was the first big Grand Prix, the first time in …
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