Japanese figure skaters placed in three of the top four spots after the women’s short program, but only six points separated ...

What makes it so impressive? Any axel jump–single, double, triple, or quad–actually involves an extra half rotation. So a single axel is really 1.5 turns in the air, the double 2.5, and so on. So yes, ...

Had Glenn fallen, she would have had an automatic one-point deduction — a better outcome than the zero earned for an invalid element.

American figure skater Amber Glenn didn't fall, so why did her score plummet? An "invalid element" turned a clean skate into ...

Team USA’s Alysa Liu sits third after the women’s short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics ...

It seemed Amber Glenn had everything under control. Competing in the women’s short program, she nailed a triple axel to start, drawing huge cheers from the crowd.

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 ...