Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won over the audiences in Nice with their captivating performances.
PRIDE ON THE LINE The 2012 World Team Trophy will take place in Tokyo, Japan, April 19-22. The six nations qualified for this year’s competition are Japan (7891 points), Canada (6943 points) , Russia (6807 points), U.S. (6399 points), Italy (5412) and France...
International Figure Skating magazine (a division of Madavor Media LLC) will unveil a bold new look commencing with the June 2012 issue. Resident Art Director, Mike O'Leary, has completed a cover-to-cover redesign that will feature informative sidebars and...
Newly crowned World champion Carolina Kostner, silver medalist Leonova (Russia) and Akiko Suzuki from Japan presented their medals to photographers following the medal ceremony in Nice.
Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov rose from a disastrous eighth place result in the short program to claim the silver medal, a mere 0.11 points behind the leaders.
IFS will be front and centre at the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France next week. Roving reporter, Nadin Vernon has all the Facebook and Twitter action covered and will bring you a front row seat daily from the event. James Cowling will...
If there was one thing the 2012 U.S. Championships proved, it is that many of the current top-ranked skaters are ready to battle it out on the World stage in March. MEN Jeremy Abbott is one of those people. There was almost no doubt as the last note of his...
One hundred skaters from 17 nations descended upon Colorado Springs, Colo. for the 2012 Four Continents Championships in early February. The competition offered up some surprising results, none more so perhaps than in the ladies event. No one expected the...
When Evgeni Plushenko announced last year that he was returning to competition, many discounted his ability to compete with the current generation. But at the 2012 European Championships, the Russian su- perstar proved to the world once again that he is...
When Johnny Weir announced he was returning to the competitive ranks, the cheers from his global fan base reverberated throughout the skating world. For the past two years the three-time U.S. champion has led a life that most people only dream about. From...
Vancouver artist Peter Jurik has been capturing some of the world’s most famous celebrities on canvas for many years. Though he had painted and drawn images of sporting stars many times, it was not until the 2010 Olympic Winter Games that he and his wife...
Johnny Weir announced in late January that he plans to make a comeback to competition. “I want to give it one last go for myself and for the people who support me, my fans and just try and do something different and special,” Weir explained during an exclusive...
Daisuke Takahashi and Mao Asada Golden at Nationals Daisuke Takahashi rocked the house at the 2011 Japanese national championships in Osaka with a sensational short program that put the homeland superstar on another planet in the world of skating. His performance...
Frances Dafoe, a two-time World pairs champion and the 1956 Olympic silver medalist with partner Norris Bowden, recently published an historical chronicle that encompasses the entire history of skating. “Figure Skating and the Arts: Eight Centuries of Sport...
The past year is one Carolina Kostner will likely never forget. Despite spending part of last season recovering from a knee injury which prohibited her from executing the flip and Lutz jumps, Kostner captured medals at the 2010-2011 Grand Prix Final, Europeans...
It was no surprise that Meryl Davis and Charlie White sambaed to gold at this competition. The reigning World champions left no doubt that they are a force to be reckoned with, capturing the ice dance title with a score of 178.07, almost 22 points over their...
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