Julia Polniuk is ten years old. She trains figure skating – and there is not much time left for her to succeed in sports and to meet the expectations of her family, which has moved to Poland ...

"She launched figure skating's modern era," Sports Illustrated ... Fleming took a staid sport that was shackled by its inscrutable compulsory figures and arcane scoring system and, with television ...

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age ...

At the beginning of Mr. Button’s career, figure skating contained two components: compulsory, or “school,” figures, patterns skaters precisely traced on the ice, once with each foot ...

The man he had to beat, Switzerland's world champion Hans Gerschweiler, fashioned a thin lead in the compulsory school figures ... would be wonderful for figure skating in this region," Wright ...

He remains the youngest man to win an Olympic figure skating gold medal. Button’s athletic style of jumping revolutionized ... Skaters competed to music being played on records and were also judged on ...