That next winter, she joined Stars on Ice, Olympic skating gold medalist Scott Hamilton’s famous touring figure skating show. "I definitely had times where like I was like, this is a lot of work," she says. "But, as much as it was lonely in those moments, it was one of the best...
“A girl with too much talent,” coach, Eteri Tutberidze, oncedescribedthe 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valiyeva. “She’s flexible, she understands gliding and she’s bouncy.” Kamila Valieva of Team ROC reacts during the Women Single Skating Free Skating Team Event on day three of...
Gold medalists of Austria celebrate after ski jumping men's team at the National Ski Jumping Centre in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province on Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Song) Having claimed a historic gold in the women's freeski big air, China's Gu Ailing qualified for Tuesday's...
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She’s the favorite to win women’s figure skating Olympic gold this year Kamila will attempt three quads in her free program later this week (she landed two out of the three during the team event). Given that she’s been able to land quads somewhat consistently in competition compared to...
Olympic Medalist Games: 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic Games Participant: 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic Medals Won: Silver medal,Gold medal 4 Claudia Pechstein Women's 5000 m, Women's 3000 m 44 votes Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. She has won fiv...
Oksana Baiul is a Ukrainian figure skater who at age 16 won the Olympic gold medal for women’s figure skating at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Known as the “Swan of Odessa,” Baiul is one of the most graceful and artistically accomplish
Peggy Fleming is an American figure skater who dominated world-level women’s competition from 1964 through 1968. (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica entry on figure skating.) Fleming began skating at age nine. She worked with many coaches, including Carl
5. Women can now wear unitards, but that wasn’t always the case. Media Platforms Design Team In 1988, East German skater Katarina Witt (above) created a controversy by wearing a blue leotard with feathers instead of a skirt. After that season, the rules were changed so that tights and...
Russia once again demonstrated its prowess as the world's figure skating powerhouse with a podium sweep in the women's and its pairs skaters taking up three positions out of the top four in the discipline. Russia secured all three spots in the women's, the pairs and the ...