Ice Skating

4/24/2024 |  Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll (Associated Press (AP)) Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.

4/24/2024 |  2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships to be in Wichita (SportsTravel) The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating championships will be held in Wichita, Kansas, while the 2024 Skate America event will be in Allen Texas, the national governing body has announced with its qualifying season schedule and calendar of domestically held international events for the 2024-25 season.
“U.S. Figure Skating is very excited about each of our top-tier events,” U.S. Figure Skating Chief Executive Officer Tracy Marek said. “These events span our nation to provide amazing opportunities for skaters at all levels from our juveniles to adults as well as our fans and the skating community. We look forward to the incredible skating to come and the lasting memories each event will bring as athletes strive to show off their hard work and achieve personal bests at more than 15 sectional, championship and international events.”

1/30/2024 |  Team USA wins Olympic gold after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's ban (AXIOS Sports) Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was given a four-year ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday after it found she had "committed an anti-doping rule violation."
Why it matters: Team USA confirmed late Monday the U.S. figure skating team had been awarded a 2022 Winter Olympics gold medal as a consequence of the CAS backdating the ban to disqualify Valieva from all contests where she medaled during the affected period — including the Beijing Games.

1/30/2024 |  US will receive gold medals in the wake of figure skater Valieva’s Olympic disqualification (Associated Press (AP)) Members of the U.S. Olympic figure skating team learned late Monday they will receive gold medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee received word that the IOC would award the gold to the U.S. for the team competition, which was thrown into turmoil after Valieva’s positive test from six weeks before the competition was revealed. 

1/30/2024 |  Russian figure skaters set to get Olympic bronze ahead of Canada despite Valieva’s disqualification (Associated Press (AP)) GENEVA (AP) — Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russian figure skating team still stands to finish on the podium and get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics behind the United States and Japan.