Thirty years ago, the International Skating Union made a crowd-pleasing change to figure skating: It kicked out of competitions a segment known as compulsory figures, which required skaters to etch ...

Gallery: Photos from the compulsory dance event of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Spokane Arena on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Athletes include Charlie White and Meryl Davis; Tanith Belbin ...

The top skaters want to keep compulsory figures in their competitions, even if it means five hours a day of practicing an exercise as exciting as washing floors. The top coaches want them, knowing ...

As the Winter Olympics in Turin continue, the world’s gaze fixes on figure skaters. Mr. Hines, author of Figure Skating: A History (University of Illinois Press/World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of ...

Janet Lynn may be the greatest athlete who ever came out of Rockford, even though she never played a varsity sport at Guilford. She was so great that she changed her sport much like basketball titans ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dorothy Hamill could have been a hometown heroine in the 1976 Winter Olympics if they had been Denver’s Games. But by the time she came west from her home in ...

Dick Button won a unanimous first-place vote from all seven judges for his performance in the compulsory figures yesterday at Paris to virtually clinch his fifth straight world's figure skating ...

Falling during Olympic competition usually spells disaster for figure skaters. But Janet Lynn’s tumble, and subsequent reaction to her miscue, during the 1972 Winter Games at Sapporo, Japan, helped ...