Figure Skating

Former Figure Skating Champ Christopher Bowman Dies
Brilliant on the ice and troubled off, skating star of the 80s and 90s Christopher Bowman was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room, dead of a suspected drug overdose. He was 40.

The Olympic Fiasco That Turned Johnny Weir into Johnny Weird
America’s only hope in the Olympic men’s figure skating competition spent most of his time in Turin acting like a self-absorbed diva instead of training. The result of all his complaining was a dismal fifth-place showing in his first trip to the Olympics.

Winter Olympics: Baldings Favourite Moments
Clare Balding reflects on her favourite memories from Turin 2006 from figure skating passion to Shelley Rudman's skeleton bob silver.

Winter Olympics: Sure-footed Arakawa Claims Golden Reward
Shizuka Arakawa produced a faultless display in her free programme to claim figure skating gold for Japan as her rivals literally fell by the wayside.

Ice-skating: Clouds Obscure Figure Skating's Bright New Dawn
Ice-skating's secretive new judging process does more to erode the sport's credibility than enhance it, writes Peta Bee.

Olympics: An immodest proposal
Russia's Svetlana Khorkina cried "fix" after she finished second in the women's overall gymnastics event. The Athens mishaps are just the latest of a string of Olympics controversies in gymnastics and figure skating. And reforms won't be enough to fix the problem.

Figure Skating: Skating tutorial -- The jumps
When you watch figure skating, are you confused about which jump is which? What makes a good jump? What is the commentator talking about when he/she says "flutz," "lip," "darn edge?" Then read this article and all those jumps should become much clearer to you.

Paul Macinnes: Screen Break
Paul MacInnes: Eurosport are showing that figure skating is a big hit on the continent.

Figure Skating: A basic tutorial
Have you ever tried to watch figure skating and found yourself confused over what was going on? Who was the better skater? What is the commentator talking about? Well, this series of articles will help you understand it all.

Figure Skating: Stars on Ice 2004 -- Time to see this show!
The theme of this year's Stars on Ice show is "Time." Boasting an all-star cast, including Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin, Sale and Pelletier, Berezhnaya and Sikharudlidze, Kurt Browning, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Oksana Baiul and Scott Hamilton, the show is a must see. Here's a look at a recent performance in San Jose, California.

Skating on thin ice
Torvill and Dean left the British public with an ineradicable love of figure skating. Wrong, actually. Less than 10 years after T & D delivered the BBC a record television audience of 23.9 million at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the sport is in danger of dropping off the Beeb's radar.

Ice Skating: Russian Mobster Faces Fixing Charges
January 8: A Russian mobster faces extradition to the United States to answer charges of fixing figure skating events at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Wiretaps link judges to Olympic results fix
Transcripts appear to show alleged Russian crime boss celebrating rigged skating results with French official. An alleged Russian mobster arrested near Venice on suspicion of fixing the results of figure skating competitions at this year's Winter Olympics may have been in contact with as many as five of the Salt Lake City judges, Italian investigators said yesterday.

'Russian mafia kingpin' accused of fixing Olympic skating result
An alleged kingpin of the Russian mafia was arrested in Italy yesterday on charges of conspiring to fix the pairs figure skating competitions at this year's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, in which bizarre judging decisions led to a corruption inquiry.

French Officials Banned Over Gold Scandal
May 1: The judge and federation official at the centre of the February Olympic figure skating scandal were yesterday given the harshest punishments in the sport's history.

Russians Lodge New Skating Protest
February 23: Crisis escalates in Olympic politics after the Kremlin urged Russia's athletes to boycott the games' closing ceremony tomorrow and team officials filed another protest against a decision in the figure skating.

Kearns, Day 10: Michelle Who?
While the rest of the world fawns over the start of women's figure skating, the Americans add to a historic haul of precious medal.

British Official Drawn Into Skating Row
February 19: Britain's Sally-Anne Stapleford is the latest official to face accusations in the figure-skating scandal.

Olympics: Controversey conquers competition
The Canadian figure skating pair of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier have been the centers of attention in Salt Lake City since Monday. However, the focus now shifts to men's ice hockey as NHLers hit the ice for the most hyped and greatest hockey tournament of all-time.

Fools Gold for Canadian Figure Skaters
As Errol Brown once sang, "Everyone's a winner baby, that's the truth." And the IOC seem to be in full agreement because today they decided to diffuse the 'Skategate' scandal that has rocked Salt Lake City by awarding a second set of figure skating gold medals to Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David...

IOC in a Twirl Over Skating Scandal
It's called 'Skategate', and the scandal that is rocking, not to mention salchow-ing, the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City is showing no signs of going away. To recap, Monday's figure skating gold was awarded to the Russian pair of Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze ahead of...

Olympics: Another judging fiasco in figure skating
On Monday night, the Canadian pairs figure skating team of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won the Olympic gold medal in almost everyone's eyes except the judges. Once again, the politics of figure skating ruined a glorious competition.

Outrage As Russians Win Figure Skating Again
Controversy over the judging of figure skating mounted when the 11th pair running from the Soviet Union or Russia claimed the title over the Canadian world champions.

Interview Robin Cousins
He won figure skating gold 22 years ago at the Winter Olympics, now he runs the successful Holiday on Ice troupe. And he says that British ice skating is terrible.

FIGURE SKATING: Champions on Ice
A review of the Champions on Ice San Jose stop, 4/28/01. I attended the show with photographer and fellow journalist, Tracy Shao.

FIGURE SKATING: Plushenko wins first World title
Evgeny Plushenko was unbeatable all season long, and he is still unbeatable now.

FIGURE SKATING: Yagudin comes back strong
The results of the men's short program at the World Championships in Vancouver, Canada.

FIGURE SKATING: Yagudin falls, Plushenko and Honda in first
Results of the men's qualifying round at the World Championships in figure skating. The three time and defending World Champion Alexei Yagudin had a disastrous performance that has him tied for fifth place.

FIGURE SKATING: Spotlight on Evgeny Plushenko
An interview with Evgeny Plushenko, one of the favorites to win the World Championships (March 19-25) in Vancouver, Canada.

FIGURE SKATING: Grand Prix Finals, Pairs' Event
The talented pairs at the Grand Prix Finals (Tokyo, Japan) battled for the title. There was no room for mistakes, not when the field was so deep.

OLYMPICS: Tarnished rings
Discusses the changing feeling toward Olympic gold in figure skating

FIGURE SKATING: Grand Prix Finals preview, men's event
A preview of the men's event at the Grand Prix Finals, which will take place from February 16-18 in Tokyo, Japan. This is the last event leading up to the World Championships in March. Competing are Alexei Yagudin, Evgeny Plushenko, Timothy Goebel, Ilia Klimkin, Todd Eldredge, and Matt Savoie.

FIGURE SKATING: European Championships, Men's Event
A review and analysis of the men's event at the European Championships, which took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. Evgeny Plushenko would try to defend his title against reigning World Champion Alexei Yagudin.

FIGURE SKATING: European Championships Preview
A preview of the European Championships men's event. The battle for the title will be between long-time rivals Evgeny Plushenko and Alexei Yagudin.

FIGURE SKATING: Nations Cup: Men
Evgeny Plushenko, the reigning European Champion, would make his Grand Prix debut at the Nations Cup in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His biggest competitor at this event would be America's Timothy Goebel, coming off an upset victory over the reigning World Champion Alexei Yagudin at Skate America.

ICE SKATING: Master's of Figure Skating: Inconsistent Judging, Part II
Part Two of the review of the Master's of Figure Skating, a pro-am competition.

ICE SKATING: Master's of Figure Skating: Inconsistent Judging
A review of the Master's of Figure Skating, a pro-am competition that was televised on October 25, 2000 on TNT. In two parts: Men's, and Pairs.

ICE SKATING: A Golden Moment - Concert On Ice
A review of Kristi Yamaguchi's "A Golden Moment," a concert on ice featuring some of the world's most famous musicians and figure skaters. "A Golden Moment" aims to promote breast cancer awareness, as well as combining live music and figure skating onto one stage.

ICE SKATING: Skate America Preview
esportfans, like skaters and their fans, begins its trip around the world as the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating begins this week. First up is a preview of the first competition of the Grand Prix, Skate America, taking place in Colorado Springs, CO.

SKATING: Skating and the Internet
A look at how the Internet has impacted coverage of figure skating.