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Saitama, Japan (AFP) Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates took a big step towards their first ice dance world title Friday after winning the rhythm dance at the world figure skating championships in Japan. Chock and Bates scored 91.94 — less than a point behind the world record of 92.73 — to lead Italy’s Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri on 88.21 and Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier on 87.34. France’s reigning Olympic and world […]
by Rebecca BAILEY Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Nathan Chen demolished the opposition to win Olympic figure skating gold in Beijing on Thursday, easily beating defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who fell twice and finished fourth. The American three-time world champion finally claimed the only major prize that had eluded him with his overall score of 332.60, more than 20 points ahead of his nearest challenger. Chen held his nerve to score 218.63 in […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Russian teenager Alexandra Trusova capitalized on errors by her rivals to win her first senior Grand Prix victory on Saturday at Skate Canada. The 15-year-old from Moscow took the title after nailing three quadruple jumps in her winning routine. That was good enough to lift her over short program leader Rika Kihira of Japan and South Korea’s You Young. Both Kihira and You were left counting the cost of mistakes […]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AFP) — The showdown for the women’s figure skating title reaches its climax at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Friday while the top teams in men’s ice hockey battle for a place in the final. Here are the highlights of day 14: Figure skating Russian rivals Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva take their battle for Olympic gold to a final showdown. The two teenagers representing the Olympic Athletes of Russia (OAS) are friends […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Satoko Miyahara reached the top of the podium for the first time in two years by leading a one-two Japanese sweep at the 2017 Skate American competition on Sunday. The 2015 world silver medallist beat out runnerup Kaori Sakamoto by 13.44 points after winning Sunday’s free skate at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York. Miyahara finished first in both Saturday’s short programme and the free skate […]
by Laurie Nealin Agence France Presse REGINA, Canada (AFP) — Shoma Uno and Kaetlyn Osmond topped the men’s and women’s fields on Friday with superb short programs that brought the audience to its feet at Skate Canada International. Uno, the reigning world silver medallist from Japan, opened with a picture-perfect quadruple flip in his mesmerizing short program set to Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. A quad toe-double toe and masterful triple Axel followed, earning Uno […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese figure skater Mao Asada, a silver medalist from the 2010 Winter Olympics and three-time world champion, said on Monday (April 10) evening she’s retiring from the sport after a disappointing season, saying she has lost the will to compete. The 26-year-old took a year off from competition before resuming training in 2015, but said on her blog late on Monday that this time she was quitting for good after being […]
by Emmeline MOORE Agence France-Presse China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong capped their comeback from injury by claiming a first pairs gold with a high-flying display of acrobatics at the world figure skating championships on Thursday. The two-time world silver medallists survived a fall to snatch gold ahead of Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot after the free skating final at Hartwall Arena. Skating to Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” the Chinese scored […]
