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Efimova/Mitrofanov: Finding the Right Fit
What happens when you’re an elite pairs skater, you’ve just achieved your biggest success at an ISU championship … and your partnership ends right afterward? It’s a scenario that Alisa Efimova, 24,...
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Choreographing for Loena Hendrickx: Adam Solya
Last night, Loena Hendrickx won the women’s short program at the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships with a new personal-best score. It was a triumph for the Belgian skater–one of many this...
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Adam Siao Him Fa: “I want to skate in a way that no one did before”
In figure skating, there are great performances that win medals. And then there are performances that transcend medals to enter the lore and iconic history of the sport. Adam Siao Him Fa had both last...
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Bruno Marcotte: “It’s going to be important for Miura/Kihara to push the...
Winning a first World title was life-changing for Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, according to their coach, Bruno Marcotte. The Japanese team’s triumph at their home World Championships last year was a...
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Flores/Desyatov: A happy end to a challenging season
“This season was a little bit tough for us,” Isabella Flores admitted in January at the 2024 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Flores and her partner Ivan Desyatov faced...
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Coaching for Carreira/Ponomarenko: Madison Hubbell
Just two years ago, Madison Hubbell was on the podium at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, winning a team gold medal and a bronze medal in ice dance. Since then, Hubbell has married Spanish ice dancer...
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McBeath/Parkman: “We learned a lot this season”
Sometimes the best-laid plans get disrupted by a stroke of fate. That’s what happened to Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman in January at the 2024 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Columbus,...
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Fear/Gibson: “The crowd is part of our team”
Every skater dreams of World and Olympic glory, but for some, it’s more realistic than others. From the outside looking in, it might initially have seemed a long shot that Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson...
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Summer Sizzler: Season Preview for U.S. Skaters
All photos courtesy of Janet Liu For top U.S. skaters, this season started and will hopefully end in Boston, MA. The past few weeks saw several skating events in the Boston area: Cranberry Cup, the...
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Vaananen/Clerici: “We know we can win and compete at higher levels”
In recent decades, Finland has taken an ever-greater role in ice skating, hosting major events and fielding successful skaters. Kiira Korpi and Laura Lepisto won medals in women’s singles, Juulia...
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