Ice Skating

12/10/2025 |  Skating-Britain to permit same-sex ice dance teams next season (Reuters Sports) MANCHESTER, England, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Same-sex couples will be permitted to compete in ice dance in British events as of next season, including the national championships, British Ice Skating announced on Wednesday.
However, same-sex teams cannot compete beyond the national level, as the International Skating Union's rules stipulate pair and dance teams must comprise one man and one woman.

12/4/2025 |  Kagiyama uses mistake by Malinin to lead short program at Grand Prix Final (Associated Press (AP)) NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Yuma Kagiyama upstaged world champion Ilia Malinin of the United States to lead the men’s short program at the figure skating Grand Prix Final on Thursday.
Malinin hasn’t lost a competition in more than two years and is the gold medal favorite for the Milan Cortina Olympics but stepped out of his opening jump, a quadruple axel-triple toe loop combination, and finished third behind Kagiyama and his Japanese compatriot Shun Sato.

12/2/2025 |  Harnessing the power of AI to help revolutionize Olympic-level figure skating (Associated Press (AP)) American figure skater Andrew Torgashev was at an invitation-only camp organized by U.S. Figure Skating not long ago, a chance for elite athletes preparing for the high-level Grand Prix season to work out any flaws in their performances.

12/2/2025 |  The night the NHL learned to talk Ojibwe (Insider Sport) When most people switch on the television to watch sport, we barely think about the language we hear. Commentary arrives in our own words, our own idioms, our own accents. For many Indigenous fans in Minnesota, that has never been the case.

11/26/2025 |  NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on rising team valuations, league expansion and gambling (CNBC Sports)