Russia’s Alina Zagitova captures gold in women’s free skate
On the fine edge of figure-skating blades, a 94-pound, 15-year-old achieved what none of her compatriots had managed at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Friday.
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For many U.S. Olympic figure skaters, immigrant heritage yielded a champion’s mind-set
The collective success of these figure skaters, with the women's singles event to come this week, is testament to how the 2018 U.S. Olympic team has benefited from the participation...
“Women” or “Ladies?” At the Winter Olympics, that depends on the sport.
While figure skating's technical rigor has evolved dramatically over time, its terminology, in one significant regard, has not.
Mirai Nagasu becomes first American woman to land triple axel in Olympics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea - U.S. Figure Skating's snub of Mirai Nagasu for a spot on the 2014 Sochi Olympic team, despite a third-place finish at that year's national championships that...
Skaters Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon took different roads to the Winter Olympics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- Nathan Chen was an 11-year-old figure skating phenom when he came to work with coach Rafael Arutyunyan. Adam Rippon, by contrast, enlisted Arutyunyan's help at 22,...
Doug Williams’ Super Bowl win 30 years ago changed the game for black quarterbacks
For a generation of black quarterbacks who followed, Williams' four-touchdown MVP performance opened doors -- amounting to a powerful rejection of the insidious notion that exceptional African-American athletes were ill-equipped...
Called out by Trump, NFL owners took different paths to present a united front
The moment Joe Lockhart learned of the fiery remarks President Donald Trump had made about the National Football League during a campaign-style rally in Huntsville, Alabama, last Friday, he quickly...
The big offseason change Kirk Cousins made to be more like Tom Brady
It was during his senior year at Michigan State, around the time he was preparing for the NFL draft, that Kirk Cousins met with an applied kinesiologist about a range...