Ice Skating

7/30/2026 |  Loudoun to Host U.S. Figure Skating’s 2027 National Solo Dance Final (SportsTravel) The Washington Figure Skating Club has won the bid to host the 2027 National Solo Dance Final at Ashburn Ice House in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The event will take place September 16—19, with September 15 set aside as a practice day.
“We are honored to have been selected to host the 2027 final,” said Heather Nemier, president of the Washington Figure Skating Club. “The club has a long history of hosting figure skating competitions in the Washington, D.C., area, and we look forward to welcoming solo ice dancers to Ashburn. Solo dance is one of the fastest-growing disciplines within U.S. Figure Skating. There is a large and growing community of solo dancers in this area, including two reigning national champions in Ariel Running (Juvenile) and Violet Yan (Junior).”

3/12/2026 |  Alysa Liu’s new reality is a post-Olympic spotlight for a new age for figure skating (NBC Sports) Phillip DiGuglielmo began to see the handwriting on the wall not long after murals of Alysa Liu went up in Oakland and suburban Los Angeles.
For two weeks after Liu won the Olympic women’s singles title Feb. 19 in Milan, she and DiGuglielmo, her coach, still planned on going to Prague later this month so she could defend her world title.

2/16/2026 |  Bold new US trio eyes Olympic figure skating gold while serving as role models for a new generation (Associated Press (AP)) MILAN (AP) — The trio of U.S. women targeting Olympic figure skating gold Tuesday night are not the dainty ice princesses of yesteryear.
There’s Amber Glenn, a 26-year-old powerhouse and LGBTQ+ rights activist whose career took off just when most figure skaters are contemplating retirement. The three-time and reigning U.S. champion’s unvarnished opinion on everything from politics to the trading card game “Magic: The Gathering” have made her a polarizing figure at the Milan Cortina Games.

2/16/2026 |  SportsTravel Catches Up With US Speedskating Executive Director Ted Morris (SportsTravel) MILAN — Speedskating in the United States may very well be having a moment. Jordan Stolz has already won two golds in one event (the 500 meters and 1,000 meters), joining legend Eric Heiden in 1980 as the only men to win both events at the same Winter Olympics.

2/11/2026 |  Why are copyright problems plaguing figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics? (Associated Press (AP)) MILAN (AP) — One of the recurring issues during the opening week of the figure skating program at the Milan Cortina Olympics has been copyright problems, which have forced some athletes to scramble for approval and others to ditch their planned programs entirely.