Figure Skating News

COLORADO SPRINGS Haley Gans was known as a dedicated skater with a big heart. She died in a ski accident in Breckenridge on Friday.

Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir skated a world's best performance to capture gold Sunday at HomeSense Skate Canada International, a solid ending to an up-and-down week for the Canadian team less than three months before the Vancouver Olympics.

Long Island City, grab your skates. There's a rink coming to a rooftop? On this Saturday and Sunday the City Ice Pavilion skating rink opens up with a party and free skating.

Daisuke Takahashi skated a short program free of major errors Friday to place second at Skate Canada.

The music floats through the Auditorium where lithe pixies dance in fluid choreography, effortlessly flinging themselves into the arms of tuxedoed brawn.

Christie Sausa has dreamed of going to the Olympic Winter Games since the time she was 2 years old and watched Kristi Yamaguchi skate at the 1992 Games.

Joannie Rochette is in first after the short program at Skate Canada. The medal is as much a source of comfort as it is a cherished souvenir of her life's work to date, and that's why Joannie Rochette hasn't let go of it just yet.

Friday, November 20, 2009 Hundreds of Olympic hopefuls are in town, turning a competition into cold cash.

Jessica Dube, left, and Bryce Davison had one miscue in an otherwise solid program on Friday.

With Sasha Cohen still lame on Monday, the emergency call went out to Emily Hughes, who has become the EMT of US women's figure skating.

The 2009 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series comes to a close this week at Skate Canada in Kitchener, Ontario.

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.

Jamie Sale is an Olympic gold medallist; Craig Simpson is a two-time Stanley Cup champion.

The elimination-style reality show Battle of the Blades will skate another season.

Evan Lysacek won the men's short program, while Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto finished first in the compulsory dance Friday at 2009 Cancer.Net Skate America in Lake Placid, N.Y. Brandon Mroz is in third heading into Saturday's free skate, and Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker are fourth following the pairs short program.

Skate Canada CEO William Thompson believes that figure skating is heading into another golden age.

When CBC's Battle of the Blades debuted Oct. 4, nearly two million viewers tuned in to watch the novel and sometimes awkward pairings of figure skaters and hockey stars.

RUSSIAN figure skater Andrei Lutai has been arrested and jailed for stealing a car and driving drunk, police said today, after he finished 10th in a skating competition in upstate New York.

Pictured here at the 2009 BMO Canadain Figure Skating Championships in Saskatoon in January, Kathryn Kang is the senior women's provincial figure skating champion.

Mirai Nagasu was having one of those off days that every figure skater -- everyone in every career, really -- has had.