Pairs Skating

Talk about landing on your feet. Twice, and in the most unexpected ways. Matthew Scoralle's love for all-things ice began a few years back when the Fountain Valley resident wanted to play hockey. To get a feel for the game, and the ground beneath his...

Award-winning journalist Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist, author of the best-selling figure skating book Inside Edge and television sports analyst - is a leading voice on the Olympics, international sports, women's sports and other sports...

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,...

"So You Think You Can Dance" continues to do well with viewers this summer, landing in the top 10 shows with the coveted 18-49 audience on a regular basis. The Fox reality competition series follows the footsteps of amateur hoofers hoping to make it in...

As South Korea's Kim Yuna prepares to defend her world figure skating title this week in Turin, Italy, it's worth looking, by the numbers, at both her gold medal Olympic performance and the very idea of a post-Olympic world meet.......

Monday night Olympic history was made. For the first time since Olympic ice dancing debuted in 1976, a pair of dancers from North America won the gold medal. On home ice, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who skated with grace......

A week after lamenting the somewhat traditional music choices used in the pairs and men's figure skating competition, the Olympic oddity known as ice dancing modernized things a bit Monday night. The sport, which NBC seems to believe is more......

Evan Lysacek had the best sleepless night of his life.The "Today" show had him for its opening segment Friday, which meant being in the studio across the water in North Vancouver at 4 a.m. Next, three hours later, came a......

We thought the pairs figure skating teams came up with some out-there ensembles, but the costumes worn by the men's figure skaters on Tuesday night out-sequined the pairs by a long shot. Rhinestone-encrusted stretch velvet, sheer cut-outs, medieval...

When I think of figure skating fashion, I always think of Amy Poehler and Will Arnett as the diabolical figure skating team in "Blades of Glory," paying homage to urban culture with Timberland boot-covered skates, gold teeth and Louis Vuitton-printed........

As expected, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China won the gold medal in the pairs figure skating competition with a final score of 216.57 points, easily outdistancing Pang Qing and Tong Jian, also of China, who scored 213.31 points.......

Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo at practice this week. Credit: Getty Images / David Hecker By Philip Hersh Catching up on figure skating news after spending the last week looking at the Winter Olympic big picture: OLYMPIC PAIRS COMPETITION begins......