Ice Skating

6/17/2024 |  U.S. Remains Key Market for International Skating Union (SportsTravel) With the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships heading to Boston and the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games primed to be hosted in Salt Lake City, it only made sense the International Skating Union’s annual congress was held last week in Las Vegas.
The ISU, which oversees speed skating as well as figure skating, had more than 250 delegates from 65 countries in Nevada for multiple days of events and voting on initiatives for the international federation. With World Cup speedskating drawing big crowds in Salt Lake City in the winter and more to come throughout the country, ISU President Jae Youl Kim called the United States “one of the key partners of the ISU in producing top skaters but also graciously hosting many ISU events.”

5/30/2024 |  Students aim to increase Black representation on the ice (Reuters Sports) May 30 (Reuters) - Students Maya James and Cheyenne Walker from Washington's Howard University entered the world of figure skating because of what they did not see in the sport: people who looked like them.
So, the pair co-founded the Howard University Figure Skating Organization in the summer of 2023, the first figure skating club at a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the United States.

4/24/2024 |  Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll (Associated Press (AP)) Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.

4/24/2024 |  2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships to be in Wichita (SportsTravel) The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating championships will be held in Wichita, Kansas, while the 2024 Skate America event will be in Allen Texas, the national governing body has announced with its qualifying season schedule and calendar of domestically held international events for the 2024-25 season.
“U.S. Figure Skating is very excited about each of our top-tier events,” U.S. Figure Skating Chief Executive Officer Tracy Marek said. “These events span our nation to provide amazing opportunities for skaters at all levels from our juveniles to adults as well as our fans and the skating community. We look forward to the incredible skating to come and the lasting memories each event will bring as athletes strive to show off their hard work and achieve personal bests at more than 15 sectional, championship and international events.”

1/30/2024 |  Team USA wins Olympic gold after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's ban (AXIOS Sports) Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was given a four-year ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday after it found she had "committed an anti-doping rule violation."
Why it matters: Team USA confirmed late Monday the U.S. figure skating team had been awarded a 2022 Winter Olympics gold medal as a consequence of the CAS backdating the ban to disqualify Valieva from all contests where she medaled during the affected period — including the Beijing Games.