Figure Skating News

Kimmie Meissner wins Skate America

Ms. Colledge, an innovative British figure skater, was the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics and later won an Olympic silver medal.

Jeffrey Buttle won the men’s title at the world figure skating championships Saturday, holding off the defending champion, Brian Joubert of France.

Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir share nothing except their status as the top two figure skaters in the United States.

Johnny Weir and his rival, Evan Lysacek, finished with identical totals of 244.77. But Lysacek edged Weir for the men’s title because he had slightly better marks in his free skate.

Despite a fall on the opening jump of her free skate, 14-year-old Mirai Nagasu won her first United States Figure Skating senior women’s title.

Johnny Weird, a three-time national champion who finished third last year, skated a cleaner program to emerge as the leader with a score of 83.40.

After a disappointing 2006, Johnny Weir, the three-time defending men’s figure skating champion, has a new coach, a shorter haircut, a more focused approach, and an improved quadruple toe loop.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics young challengers are making themselves known at the United States Figure Skating Championships.

Mr. Bowman was a former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed “Bowman the Showman” for his flair on the ice.

Mr. Griffith was a bodyguard for the figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted that he had a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts.

The two-time world champion Stéphane Lambiel won the Grand Prix final men’s figure skating title Saturday, adjusting his program after two faulty jumps to edge Daisuke Takahashi.

More than a year after leaving the Turin Olympics in tears, after a groin injury derailed her quest for a gold medal, Michelle Kwan has not ruled out a comeback to competitive figure skating.

With “Blades of Glory,” Will Ferrell and Jon Heder stake an early claim to being the comedy couple of the year.

Japan finished 1-2 on Saturday at the world figure skating championships, with Miki Ando taking the title and Mao Asada the silver.

Fresh off acupuncture treatment, Kim Yu-Na received the highest score ever recorded in the women’s short program with 71.95 points on Friday.