By Hiro Yoshida
Costume malfunctions aside, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron enjoyed another successful season pushing themselves to new highs. Reflecting on the past year, the French ice dancers are proud of how far they have come and are already looking ahead to the future. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
After narrowly missing out on a place at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi has now set her sights on Beijing in four years’ time and will start on that road this week at the World Figure Skating Championships in Milan, Italy. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
Although Belgium’s Jorik and Loena Hendrickx are the only siblings competing in the singles events at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, their paths to South Korea took very different trajectories. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
At the age of 27, Spanish figure skater Felipe Montoya has secured his dream of competing at this month’s PyeongChang Olympic Games. With just a few days left until his debut at a global event, he is ready to show the world his very best. (more…)
Although it was predicted that it would be a closely fought contest between Canada and the Olympic Athletes from Russia, the destination of the 2018 Olympic Games Team Event gold medal was more or less decided in the opening session of the competition. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
Since winning the bronze medal at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Denis Ten has endured four years of highs and lows in competition and battled with injury. As he approaches his third Olympics in his ancestral homeland, the Kazakhstani skater has more on his mind than merely winning a medal. (more…)
While many of leading skaters chose to skip this year’s Four Continents Figure Skating Championships so close to the PyeongChang Olympic Games next month, there was plenty of high level skating in Taipei City which hosted the 20th edition of the event. (more…)
The host country dominated the 2018 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Moscow, Russia winning nine out of the twelve medals on offer. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
Last season was when it all finally came together for Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès. After achieving their long-stated goal of medalling at the European Figure Skating Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the French pair matched their best-ever finish at a World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland. One year on from their European breakthrough, they are back on the same stage and aiming even higher. (more…)
By Hiro Yoshida
The union of Lubov Ilyushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch in 2014 as a team put together two skaters who each brought their own distinct style of pairs skating to the table. As they head into their final Canadian championships this weekend, they reflect over the past four seasons and look forward to life beyond skating. (more…)
