Articles filed under Figure Skating
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Ahead of Olympics, figure skating is all about the big jumpsApr 01, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - At next year's Winter Olympics, it won't just be the snowboarders who are focused on getting big air. As freestyle snow events increasingly pack the prog...
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Russia's Medvedeva retains women's world figure skating goldMar 31, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - With less than a year to go until the Olympics, figure skating star Evgenia Medvedeva looks unbeatable. On Friday, she didn't just secure a second consec...
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Canadian skater recovers from broken leg to win world medalMar 31, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - When she broke her right leg in 2014, Canadian figure skating star Kaetlyn Osmond naturally feared her promising career was over. Fast forward 2 1/2 year...
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Flawless Fernandez leads at figure skating worldsMar 30, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - Javier Fernandez led the men's event at the figure skating world championships on Thursday and eclipsed his personal best score from winning the European...
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Playing The Beatles, North Korean skaters aim for OlympicsMar 30, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - North Korea's figure skaters are aiming for the Olympics - and they're using The Beatles. Ryom Tae Ok and her partner Kim Ju Sik impressed observers by f...
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Pairs competition wide open at figure skating worldsMar 29, 2017 7:00 am - The pain Alexa Scimeca Knierim felt in her abdomen was excruciating, the vomiting and sleepless nights that it produced draining, and figure skating was the farthest thi...
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Medvedeva leads figure skating worlds after short programMar 29, 2017 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - Evgenia Medvedeva closed in on a second world figure skating title Wednesday by taking the lead in the short program, while China's Sui Wenjing and Han C...
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Virtue, Moir team to beat in ice dance at Helsinki worldsMar 28, 2017 7:00 am - Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir returned from a two-year hiatus following their silver medal at the Sochi Olympics to post the two highest ice dance scores of all time, the ...
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Quad man: Nathan Chen, skater to beat at worlds in HelsinkiMar 27, 2017 7:00 am - Among those who thought the technical bar in men's skating couldn't go higher after the 2014 Olympics was Patrick Chan. Then along came American Nathan Chen and his five...
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American Vincent Zhou wins world juniors titleMar 16, 2017 7:00 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - American Vincent Zhou won the Junior World Championships gold medal Thursday. The 16-year-old from Palo Alto, California, soared from fifth place w...