Pairs Skating

Skate America 2012 begins ISU Grand Prix series figure skating TV coverage on NBC and Universal Sports. 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America from ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash., starts the 2012 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating’s season. NBC has coverage...

It will be a lost figure skating season for two-time U.S. pairs champion Rockne Brubaker of Algonquin. "I'll be sitting out this season," Brubaker told me in a Saturday email. Brubaker's skating future became uncertain when his partner of the past two...

Doubt and inconsistency had been Ashley Wagner's faithful travel companions until this year. They followed Wagner when she left her home in northern Virginia to live and train for three seasons in Delaware with a new coach, Priscilla Hill. They came...

Gracie Gold's debut in a senior figure skating competition was solid. Gold, 16, who trains in suburban Chicago, overcame a mistake on a triple lutz jump to finish fourth in the short program Thursday at the World Team Trophy competition in Tokyo. The...

The girls stand together in their skates before taking the ice. They talk animatedly as they stretch and prepare for a long practice. "They haven't seen each other in a week," one of the mothers says in passing. The Sailors, the highest-level team in the...

I was channel surfing in commercial breaks from an NFL playoff game last Sunday when a figure skating show, Improv-Ice, arrested my attention. There was Nicole Bobek, back on national television as a performer (for the second time in 15 days), looking...

Top figure skaters compete at the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., including Rachael Flatt, 2011 ladies’ champ Alissa Czisny, Jeremy Abbott and 2011 men’s champ Ryan Bradley. Last year’s ice...

Universal Sports has coverage of the 2012 ISU World Figure Skating Championships from Nice, France, beginning Wednesday, March 28, at 1pm ET with pairs short program and ice dancing short program. Viewers can also purchase a live and on demand streaming...

One-third of the way into the Grand Prix "regular season," here are 10 things I know about the state of competitive figure skating: 1.  The general performance level is as sloppy as ever, yet another piece of evidence that the demands of the sport's not-...

JUPITER, Fla. -- What had happened to the little girl who stole the Evanston ice show as a strawberry shortcake, the tween who dazzled audiences at the 1990 U.S. Olympic Festival, the teen who upset Michelle Kwan to win the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating title,...

Ice Capades star Donna Atwood had spent almost half her life on the road when she left professional figure-skating behind at 31 to raise her three young children in a custom-built Beverly Hills home complete with a piano that folded into the wall. She...

One medal. That's what the United States figures to get at the March World Figure Skating Championships. That's all that the results -- and quality of skating -- from the U.S. Championships that ended Sunday would augur. One medal would......