When a week of jubilation turned tragic, generations of figure skaters discovered something new about the nature of their sport.

I’ve got all these little voices on the other end of the phone calling me sobbing. ... Kids normally think old people die, ...

Hughes is the most recent American to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford’s Graduate ...

Nearly half of the passengers on the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter last week were members of the figure skating community ... this," 1968 Olympic gold medalist Peggy ...

personified figure skating for millions of Americans from the 1960s to the end of the 20th century, and into a portion of the 21st as well. The first American Olympic gold medalist in the sport ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gold medalist Lukas Britschgi of Switzerland poses with his medal during the victory ceremony for the men ...

I am further heartbroken with the loss of figure skating legend, my friend, Dick Button," Brian Boitano, who won a gold medal in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, wrote in a post on social media.

The U.S. figure skating community lost 28 members in the American Airlines Flight 5342 crash in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday. Athletes, coaches and family members were returning home from a ...

Dozens of skaters and their families filled the long, glass-walled lounge on the second floor that overlooks the club's ...

Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP) The Cottonwood Heights Figure Skating Club, in unity with skating clubs nationwide and U.S. Figure Skating, holds a vigil for victims Monday, ...

While U.S. Figure Skating has yet to identify any of the skaters on board, USA TODAY has confirmed that some of them were as young as 11 years old. “We're all grieving this," 1968 Olympic gold ...