Gilles & Poirier: After Reaching Wuthering Heights, Ice Dance Duo Take Time To Reflect

By Hiro Yoshida

In June Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier announced their decision to sit out the upcoming season’s ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. It will come as no surprise to anyone who followed their rollercoaster 2025-2026 to understand why the Canadians are now taking a break to reflect on what they accomplished.

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Bruno Marcotte: Olympic Gold Medal Coach Eyes New Challenges

By Hiro Yoshida

As the guiding hand behind Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, Bruno Marcotte reached the pinnacle of his coaching career when his charges staged a comeback for the ages at this year’s Milano Cortina Olympic Games walking away with Japan’s first title in the pairs event.

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2026 WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

The 2025/2026 season draws to a close this week as the World Figure Skating Championships return to Prague, Czech Republic for the first time in 33 years.

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Loena Hendrickx: Olympic Take Three In Milan

By Hiro Yoshida

The past twelve months have been perhaps the most challenging of Loena Hendrickx’s career. After overcoming injury, rehabilitation, illness and the small matter of having to earn her spot at this month’s Olympics, the Belgian skater is ready to leave it all out on the ice in Milan this week.

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Karina Akopova & Nikita Rakhmanin’s Long Road to Armenia and Olympic Ice

By Maria Bagdasarova

(Featured Photo: © Asatur Yesayants / YantsImages )

At the Milano Cortina Olympics, Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin are the first pair skaters to represent Armenia at the Games since 2002. The pair secured their Olympic quota at the ISU Skate to Milano qualifying competition in Beijing in September 2025, re-establishing themselves on the international stage after more than a three-year hiatus. The path to the moment when Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin finally sat in a kiss-and-cry with “Armenia” next to their names was far from straightforward. As they prepare to compete on the Olympic ice this weekend, they have a clear objective in mind: to represent Armenia with confidence and pride on the world’s biggest stage.

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Maurizio Margaglio: An Olympic Journey Comes Full Circle

By Hiro Yoshida

Twenty years ago this month, Maurizio Margaglio, with his partner Barbara Fusar-Poli, had a moment at the 2006 Olympics in Turin that is still talked about to this day when people think of those Games. With the Olympics back in Italy and the ice dance event beginning later today, the 2002 Olympic bronze medallist reflects on his competitive career and his current role as coach in Finland.

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2026 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Italy plays host to the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 20 years as the best figure skaters in the world strive for glory in Milan.

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