Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: “From now on, we want to take on various activities so that more people can learn about pair skating, and eventually, we hope to study and become coaches together.”

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Retiring pair skaters Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara aim to become coaches and promote pair skating in Japan, focusing [...]

“For some reason, it’s not customary to talk about this in our society. Victims of abuse usually remain silent. Those affected cannot escape the vicious cycle.” Elizaveta Tuktamysheva explained the idea behind her program addressing the problem of domestic violence.

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Figure skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva explained the idea behind her program addressing the problem of domestic [...]

Hannah Lim and Ye Quan: “After seven incredible years together and representing Korea at the 2026 Olympics, Hannah and I have decided to end our partnership.”

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South Korean ice dance pair Hannah Lim and Ye Quan have announced the end of their partnership. original source: [...]

Sergei Dudakov: “If our sport moves toward beautiful skating only, we might go in the opposite direction from sport and turn into a show.”

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Sergei Dudakov, coach of Eteri Tutberidze's group, believes that figure skaters need to find a balance between jumps [...]

Shoma Uno: “I never encountered any Olympic monsters myself, and I don’t really know what people mean by that. I just thought, ‘I’m lucky I can play games during the competition period!’ I was like, ‘I’m stuck for two weeks, so I can play a lot of video games!’”

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Olympic medalist Shoma Uno spoke at the stage greeting for the “Ice Brave Shin-Yokohama Special Edition” [...]

Evgeni Plushenko: “They sent me a video of the American, super athlete, and genius Ilia Malinin doing three backflips in a row at a show. And that’s a sensation! But my student, Lyuba Rubtsova, did this much earlier.”

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Coach and two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko commented on Ilia Malinin’s triple backflip, noting that his [...]

Irina Rodnina: “Alysa Liu’s success would not have been possible without Russian figure skaters.”

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Three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina stated that American skater Alysa Liu’s success would not have been [...]

Narumi Takahashi: “Thanks to having Yuzuru Hanyu growing up by my side, I was able to reach places I never could have with just my own natural talent. It is absolutely his presence that broadened my world.”

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Former Olympic pair skater Narumi Takahashi spoke on television about how Yuzuru Hanyu, her childhood friend and [...]

Adeliia Petrosian: “Regarding the organization of the Olympics… Our Russian competitions are decorated on a larger scale, more beautifully.”

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Adeliia Petrosian believes that domestic Russian figure skating competitions are organized better than the Olympics in [...]

Mihhail Selevko will now train under Svetlana Varnavskaja, coach of two-time European champion Niina Petrokina

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Estonian figure skater Mihhail Selevko has ended his partnership with coach Irina Kononova and will now train under [...]

“Aren’t you scared in the air?” Riku Miura answered, “He always tells me that if I fall, he’ll be there to catch me. I trust him completely, so I’m not scared at all.”

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Olympic gold medalist pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara announced their retirement and made their first public [...]

Nikita Katsalapov: “Guillaume Cizeron is a legend. We were never friends and didn’t even follow each other on social media. But this time, I felt I needed to support him, so I sent him a long message. He replied almost immediately.”

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Nikita Katsalapov shared how he exchanged messages with Guillaume Cizeron during the 2026 Milan Olympics, expressing [...]

“No one expected us to succeed so quickly. Now we’re thinking about the throw quad flip, which no one has done yet. Of course, it’s much more dangerous, but it’s interesting.” Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko successfully landed a throw quad loop

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Hungarian pair skaters Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko successfully landed a throw quadruple loop in practice, [...]