Brian Joubert News

Former world champion figure skater Brian Joubert of France will miss next week's Grand Prix final after injuring his foot in a training accident.

KITCHENER, Ontario -- The medal stand was disguised as a maple leaf, and Jeremy Abbott happily stepped up on it, wearing a smile of satisfaction.

Questions first, answers second, now that the six regular-season Grand Prix figure skating events are over: 1. Who would win an Ultimate Splat-Down between the two falling angels, reigning U.S. champion Alissa Czisny and 2007-08 European champion Carolina Kostner? The Zamboni operator, for Czisny and Kostner would clean so much of the ice with ...

KITCHENER, ONT. a ' It will come as ego-plumping news to Evgeny Plushenko that Patrick Chan uses the Russian's quad as a gold medal standard.

Patrick Chan isn't picking a fight. Honest. He just wants Evgeni Plushenko to know that, despite a monster win in the Olympic champion's first competition since coming out of retirement, figure skating isn't quite where he left it four years ago.

Dressed in plumes of black feathers, world champion Evan Lysacek won the men's short program at Skate America with great ease Friday night.

Just when you thought the sport had passed him by ... Just when you thought he was a creature of the new scoring system, the first to exploit its emphasis on the complete game over the huge tricks, and now the rest of the world had caught on and left him behind ... Canada's Jeff Buttle turned conventional wisdom on its ear on Friday at the world ...

Clad in a black outfit, with his dark hair slicked back, Evan Lysacek stepped onto the ice Saturday at Skate America, serious about his goal of winning a medal here.

Frank Carroll was examining the ice tracings Evan Lysacek left on his practice triple flip jump as if Carroll were an Egyptologist deciphering hieroglyphics.

David Haye of Britain backed up weeks worth of boasting, winning the WBA heavyweight title.

Who knew, coming out of the Salt Lake City figure skating scandal, that Canada's harvest from the affair of the French judge would be so much more than a pair of belated gold medals awarded to Jamie Sale and David Pelletier? Those baubles, it turns out, were only the first installment.

Former world champion Brian Joubert of France holds a slim 2.35-point edge over American Jeremy Abbott after the short program.

Miki Ando continued her resurgence by capturing her second Grand Prix title of the season on Saturday night at Big Hat.

Ashley Wagner of the United States is in first place after the short program in Nagano.

Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier of Canada performs in the Ice Dance Compulsory Dance on the day one of ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy at M Wave on November 6, 2009 in Nagano, Japan.

Brian Joubert of France finished first in the men's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday, edging Jeremy Abbott of the United States.

On the day Yuka Sato received a career-changing phone call last spring, she was sitting in her hairstylist's chair in Birmingham with a head full of foil highlights.

When Miki Ando takes the ice at the Big Hat in Nagano on Friday she will be looking to notch a Grand Prix victory for Nikolai Morozov's stable of skaters for the fourth straight weekend.

The Trophee Eric Bompard wrapped up in Paris over the weekend setting the stage for some new world championship and Olympic podium possibilities.

Czech skater Tomas Verner got his Olympic season off to a flying start by taking the lead after the short programme in the first of the ISU's six-leg Grand Prix figure skating series here on Friday.