For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

Figure skating is a fan favorite at the Winter Olympics—for every event, the stands are packed to watch competitors glide, jump, and spin. But what does it take to pull off these seemingly effortless ...

Among TV viewers, figure skating is consistently one of the most anticipated events at the Winter Olympics. But for Lindsay Slater Hannigan, who is director of the human and sport performance ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Figure skating traces its roots to 1772, when Englishman Robert Jones provided one of the first documented accounts of the sport. By the early 1900s, figure skating had crossed ...

It’s a little different from the familiar scratch of skates carving into ice. At the New York Hall of Science, the sound is softer — booties gliding across a synthetic rink as visitors push off and ...