Prior to Russia's ban from international figure skating, the Russians had won more medals at the world championships than any other country.

You probably haven’t heard of Adeliia Petrosian but from Volgograd to Vladivostok she’s renowned as the Motherland’s reigning ice queen. Petrosian, a 17-year-old Muscovite who’s barely tall enough to peer over the boards, has won the last two Russian titles.

In her first figure skating career, the one she ended with a retirement three years ago at age 16, Alysa Liu won national titles, made history as the youngest this and the youngest that, did landmark jumps for a U.