She jumped over her head: a figure skater from Russia became the main sensation of the Beijing Olympics

Almost any Olympics is marked by events or people who are forever included in the history of sports. The star of Beijing 2022 is 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the first women's figure skater to perform a quadruple jump at the Olympic Games, BBC reports. Her performance deservedly caused a general…

An American figure skater is accused of hitting her rival with a skate blade.

The American figure skater was accused of injuring her rival from South Korea in the leg before competing at the World Championships. Mariah Bell, 22, is said to have stabbed 16-year-old Lim Yoon-Soo with her skate blade during a warm-up before they should ...

Ukrainian sisters will fight for the championship in synchronized figure skating in the US

American athletes of Ukrainian descent have won the right to take part in the US synchronized figure skating championship. Eva Barsuk, who grew up in Kiev, together with her team won the gold medal at the Eastern US Championship in the junior category, and her sister Ustina ...

As an American with Russian roots, became a rising star of figure skating in the US

The rising stars of figure skating live in Texas and train in Dallas. Among them is a Russian young man, born and living in the USA, who continues the traditions of the Russian style of skating. His story is told by Our Texas. In January 2018, in US magazine...

Suspect in the murder of the skater Tena arrested: what is known

On Thursday, 25-year-old Kazakh figure skater Denis Ten, bronze medalist of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, was killed in Almaty. Last night, one of the two suspects in the athlete's murder was detained. The Almaty prosecutor's office reported that he had already given a confession.…

The Ukrainian Olympic champion living in the USA lost the trial for $ 50 million

Back in 2015, former Ukrainian figure skater, Olympic champion Oksana Baiul filed a lawsuit against Ukraine in the Federal Court of the Central District of California. The athlete intended to collect $ 50 million from her home country. Recently, the court ruled on the Bayul case. According to information ...

15-year-old Russian woman Zagitova became the best skater of the planet. VIDEO

Russian Alina Zagitova became the winner of the Olympic Games in the women's singles figure skating tournament. The gold medal she won was the first for Olympic athletes from Russia in Pyeongchang - until now the Russians had only silver and bronze medals.…

Russian figure skater conquered Japan in an anime manner of Sailor Moon. VIDEO

The current world figure skating champion Evgenia Medvedeva performed in the image of the heroine of the Japanese anime “Sailor Moon” at the demonstration performances of the Dream on Ice 2016 ice show in Japan. The athlete performed in front of the audience in the Land of the Rising Sun in the image of the heroine of the Japanese anime “Sailor Moon”.…

In Miami, killed a former figure skater, coach Igor Pashkevich

The world champion among juniors in 1990, participant of two Olympics Igor Pashkevich died tragically in Miami, where he worked as a figure skating coach until recently. The Russian Figure Skating Federation, which published the news about the death of 44-year-old Pashkevich, the circumstances of the coach's death ...

A native of Kiev won the first ever silver for Israel in figure skating

Israeli figure skater Alexei Bychenko won a silver medal at the European Figure Skating Championships in Slovakia. Bychenko is the first Israeli to become a medalist at such a prestigious competition in this sport. This time, a member of the Israeli Olympic team scored 242,56 points. And in ...

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