MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 08: (EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined in camera to produce this image.) Amber Glenn of Team United States competes in Women's Single Skating - Free Skating Team ...

Even casual fans of figure skating have likely heard of the triple axel. And now, thanks to U.S. men’s champion Ilia Malinin, you’ll be hearing a lot about the quadruple axel, or quad axel, too. What ...

For American figure skater Amber Glenn, winning gold was within reach going into the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. But then she experienced a devastating result in the performance of her ...

Only two skaters landed triple axels, the most difficult jump attempted in the short program of the women’s Olympic figure skating competition on Tuesday. Ami Nakai, 17, of Japan took advantage of a ...

For Olympic figure skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes during the Winter games. Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a ...

What is an axel jump in figure skating? Types of jumps in figure skating What is a quadruple axel? Has anyone ever done a quadruple axel? Has a female ever done a quadruple axel? The 2026 Winter ...

World figure skating champion Alysa Liu plans to reincorporate the triple Axel into her programs for the upcoming Olympic season. In an interview with retired NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason, Liu was ...

Figure skating prospect Kim Yu-seong won the women's singles title at the 34th Nepela Memorial, an International Skating Union Challenger Series event, after la ...

Competing in the women's singles free skating held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on the 27th , Kim scored 76.17 points in technical elements and 65.26 points in program components for a total of 141.43 ...

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The 2026 Winter Olympics is fully underway in Italy, and it's once again time for figure skating to take center stage. One of the biggest stars on this year's U.S. team is Ilia Malinin, nicknamed the ...