Sweden's Christian Olsson will be unable to defend his Olympic triple jump crown in Beijing after he pulled out of the Games with a hamstring injury.
"I felt my body having the shakes," Olympian Oksana Grishuk tells PEOPLE
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch will report on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web.
The world figure skating championships are underway in Sweden, but the top American woman, who is, in fact, not a woman, but a little girl, will not be there.
Cincinnati, which Longfellow described as ''the Queen City of the West,'' was taken by the heartstrings last week. So sweetly was the city conquered by the Queen of the East, Katarina Witt, that even Debi Thomas -- the defending world figure skating champion, whose best performance in more than a year was stuffed gracefully back in her face by the indomitable Witt -- came away an admirer.
John Baldwin didn't win a gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend – but he did get the girl.
Despite all the hue and cry surrounding figure skating's new scoring system, the one thing no one seemed to be worried about was whether it would lead to too many ties. After all, each of fourteen elements is marked to the hundredth decimal point. But on Sunday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the least likely happened. Defending champion Evan Lysacek and former three-time champion Johnny Weir did the near impossible: they finished the competition with exactly 244.77 points each.
ST. PAUL, Minn. --The ladies competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships was billed as a "battle of the ages," but the so-called battle turned into a rout. The kids blew the oldsters away, and the 13,000 fans in St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center couldn't have been happier to witness the evolution.
Olympic champion ice skater Scott Hamilton and his wife, Tracie, celebrated the birth of their second son on Monday at a Tennessee hospital, the couple confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.
Christopher Bowman, a two-time U.S. figure skating champion, spent years struggling with drug use. His longtime coach recalls the athlete's talent and his "dark side."
Sweden's Christian Olsson will be unable to defend his Olympic triple jump crown in Beijing after he pulled out of the Games with a hamstring injury.
"I felt my body having the shakes," Olympian Oksana Grishuk tells PEOPLE
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch will report on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web.
The world figure skating championships are underway in Sweden, but the top American woman, who is, in fact, not a woman, but a little girl, will not be there.
Cincinnati, which Longfellow described as ''the Queen City of the West,'' was taken by the heartstrings last week. So sweetly was the city conquered by the Queen of the East, Katarina Witt, that even Debi Thomas -- the defending world figure skating champion, whose best performance in more than a year was stuffed gracefully back in her face by the indomitable Witt -- came away an admirer.
John Baldwin didn't win a gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend – but he did get the girl.
Despite all the hue and cry surrounding figure skating's new scoring system, the one thing no one seemed to be worried about was whether it would lead to too many ties. After all, each of fourteen elements is marked to the hundredth decimal point. But on Sunday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the least likely happened. Defending champion Evan Lysacek and former three-time champion Johnny Weir did the near impossible: they finished the competition with exactly 244.77 points each.
ST. PAUL, Minn. --The ladies competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships was billed as a "battle of the ages," but the so-called battle turned into a rout. The kids blew the oldsters away, and the 13,000 fans in St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center couldn't have been happier to witness the evolution.
Olympic champion ice skater Scott Hamilton and his wife, Tracie, celebrated the birth of their second son on Monday at a Tennessee hospital, the couple confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.
Christopher Bowman, a two-time U.S. figure skating champion, spent years struggling with drug use. His longtime coach recalls the athlete's talent and his "dark side."
Celebrated men's figure skater Christopher Bowman, widely known as "Bowman the Showman," was found dead on Thursday in a Los Angeles-area budget-motel room, say authorities.
Former U.S. figure skating champion and Olympian Christopher Bowman died of a "possible overdose," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Coroner.
Their story reads like a figure skating fairy tale: Jessica Dube, a 19-year-old, French-speaker, and at 4 feet 11, a pixie princess. The handsome Bryce Davison, 21, was her English-speaking prince. Among Canada's top-ranked pairs skaters, they just clicked.
They say that figure skating requires the elegance of a royal court, the grace of a ballerina, the speed of a sprinter, the balance of a tightrope walker, the endurance of a marathon runner, the coordination of a juggler, the strength of a high jumper and the rhythm of a dancer.
Ever since he portrayed a heartbreakingly earnest cheerleader on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell has shown that he gets the comic possibilities of modern sports. Stereotypes remained his specialty as he moved on to movies such as Old School, Kicking and Screaming and Talladega Nights and gave us, respectively, the rhythmic gymnast, soccer dad and stock car driver from hell. In his latest film Ferrell is as ungainly and un-self-aware as ever, but as a figure skater in Blades of Glory he turns that sport's biggest stereotype on its head.
Each week SI.com will select the athlete who displays excellence on and off the field as the Primetime Performer.
The best performance, by far, by a skater at the U.S. Figure Skating championships this week was put on by the new men's champion, 21-year-old Evan Lysacek.
Former world and European champion Irina Slutskaya has announced her retirement from figure skating, saying "she has had enough".
Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones has been included in the U.S. team for this weekend's IAAF World Cup in Athens.
Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski's have won the ice dance gold medal at the world figure skating championships in Calgary - their first major title.
Russia's Irina Slutskaya has confirmed her decision not to defend her title at this month's world figure skating championships in Canada.
Russian athletes delighted the home crowd in Moscow at the world indoor championships with a hat-trick of gold medals on Saturday.
None of Russia's Olympic medallists will compete at this month's world figure skating championships in the Canadian city of Calgary.
Sasha Cohen thought she had blown it.
Shizuka Arakawa glided into the record books when she captured Japan's first ever Olympic figure skating gold with victory in the women's event, knocking favorite Irina Slutskaya into third.
Figure skater Sasha Cohen produced a stunning performance on the ice when she shimmied and sashayed her way through the ladies short program. And there was a stunning performance off the ice too, when two U.S. speed skaters pretended they liked each other.
It may have the strongest female audience for any sporting event, but it's not just women who will be watching women's figure skating at the Olympics this week.
It was hard to know what was the greater surprise on the last night of the Winter Olympic ice dancing program: the appearance of Americans on the podium or the sudden declaration of peace by the previously warring top Italian pair.
Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov seized the ice dance gold medal on Monday to keep alive Russia's chances of sweeping all four figure skating titles at the Winter Olympics.
If looks could kill, Italy's Maurizio Margaglio would be in serious trouble.
World champions Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov were upstaged when Italians Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio returned from retirement to lead the ice dancing event.
Yevgeny Plushenko performed a pulsating free skate to win the men's title, keeping alive Russia's chances of completing an historic sweep of all four figure skating gold medals.
Michelle Kwan is gone. Bode Miller failed to win even a bronze in his first event. What's a U.S. advertiser at the Winter Olympics to do?
The Olympic favorites have been dropping -- or in some cases not dropping fast enough -- in Torino as a series of stunning upsets and miscalculations left many highly-fancied athletes grasping at what might have been.
Five-time world champion Michelle Kwan won't rule out withdrawing from the 2006 Olympic Games after cutting short her first practice session Saturday morning.
While skating in its most rudimentary form has been around for thousands of years, the sport of figure skating as we know it was developed with two great leaps forward in the mid-19th century.
In 1984 figure skater Scott Hamilton wowed the world with his intricate footwork and perfect jumps in winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The diminutive athlete dominated the sport in the 1980s, also winning four world figure skating championships.
Russian Tatyana Lebedeva became only the second athlete to win the entire Golden League Jackpot of $1 million by winning the triple jump competition at the ISTAF Berlin meeting on Sunday.
Sweden's Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson is likely to miss the world athletics championships in August because of a foot injury, it was reported on Saturday.
Switzerland's Stephane Lambiel won the men's title at the world figure skating championships in Moscow on Thursday.
Sweden won three gold medals in track and field events in 24 hours as Stefan Holm took the gold in the high jump and Christian Olsson triumphed in the triple jump.
Japan's Shizuka Arakawa won the women's gold at the world figure skating championships in Dortmund.
Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva took the world indoor triple jump title in style by equalling and then twice breaking the world record in Budapest on Saturday.
Brian Joubert became the first Frenchman in 40 years to be crowned European men's champion after an exhilarating final free programme.
Russia's Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin have won their third consecutive European ice skating pairs title.
Fake numbers, unholy alliances, and whistle blowers. We're talking about Olympic figure skating, of course. This scandal has everything, including an unsavory antagonist in the guise of a Ukrainian...
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Management ability, market savvy, financial acumen--all rate high as predictors of business success. But never underestimate the power of pure obsession. That's how Jet Ice Ltd., founded by a Toron...
IT'S EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE morning, an hour when most high school kids are just beginning to think about first-period class. Steve Reynolds is already in his first ''class'' of the day: He's skiing ...
JENNIFER ORCUTT AND JOE Galvin are on a roll. The two 9-year-olds from Redwood City, California, spend three to four hours a day jumping, twirling, and spinning around a roller-skating rink in perf...
ON A RECENT FLIGHT to Denver from Grand Junction, Colorado, a business executive asked Terry Liskevych, coach of the U.S. women's Olympic volleyball team, why the United States doesn't win more med...
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