Ice Skating

5/7/2025 |  2025 Skate America Heading to Lake Placid (SportsTravel) U.S. Figure Skating has announced 2025 Skate America will be held in Lake Placid, New York, November 14–16, along with the calendar of U.S. qualifying competitions and international events for the 2025–2026 season.
Returning to the 1980 Herb Brooks Arena — the site of the “Miracle on Ice” during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games — this marks the sixth time Skate America will be held in Lake Placid and the first since 2017. This is also the third time Skate America will take place in Lake Placid in an Olympic season.

3/28/2025 |  ISU's World Figure Skating 2025 championship in Boston honors Flight 5342 victims (United Press International (UPI)) March 26 (UPI) -- The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships began Wednesday in Boston and included a tribute to figure skaters and others lost in the January 29 Flight 5342 air collision.
The special tribute honored the skaters who died while aboard American Airlines Flight 5432 as it attempted to land at the Washington, D.C., international airport but collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was conducting a nighttime training mission. 

3/24/2025 |  Bridging the political divide: US and Canadian skaters hope sports can unify during worlds in Boston (Associated Press (AP)) BOSTON (AP) — American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates always have been treated with such kindness and support from the people in their longtime training base in Montreal that Canada has become a second home for them.
Many of their closest friends are Canadian. They spend as much time there as they do in the United States.

3/3/2025 |  Tears flow at a poignant figure skating event in Washington benefiting victims of the DC plane crash (Associated Press (AP)) WASHINGTON (AP) — Maxim Naumov wept on his knees at the end of his performance honoring his parents, wiped away tears as he skated off the ice and held an electric candle in the air as applause rained down. Amber Glenn broke down when she finished skating, and so did 13-year-old Isabella Aparicio, who was performing in memory of her brother, Franco, and their father Luciano.

2/18/2025 |  Transport strike affecting Olympic test event underscores risks facing Milan-Cortina Games (Associated Press (AP)) ROME (AP) — A transport strike during an official test event for the Milan-Cortina Olympics highlighted why organizers are negotiating with trade unions to avoid a similar scenario during next year’s Winter Games.
When workers for Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM) walked off their jobs last Friday, Milan’s metro, bus and tram system ground to a halt, leaving organizers of a short-track speedskating event having to call in emergency buses to transport schoolchildren to the arena in Assago on Milan’s outskirts that will also host the sport during the Olympics.