Tag: Skating
2026 Olympics plan for Cortina bobsled track, outdoor oval
ROME — Organizers for the 2026 Olympics are sticking with their plans to spend 50 million euros ($60 million) to rebuild an abandoned bobsled...
AP Sportlight
March 29
1929 — The Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup...
Ex-Tokyo Olympics chief again criticized for sexist comment
TOKYO — Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who resigned last month as president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee over comments criticized as...
AP Sportlight
March 28
1939 — The barnstorming Renaissance Five defeat the NBL...
Chen wins 3rd straight worlds, beating Olympic champ Hanyu
STOCKHOLM — Nathan Chen put himself in the company of history's best figure skaters, becoming the first American since Scott Hamilton to win a...
Russian win rhythm dance to extend command at skating worlds
STOCKHOLM — Russia extended its dominance of the World Figure Skating Championships on Friday when Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov took the rhythm dance.
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Barrier falls: Woman officiates men’s qualifier in Americas
Kathryn Nesbitt ran the sidelines, waving a flag, blending in for all the right reasons.
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Russia wants Tchaikovsky music for anthem at Tokyo Olympics
MOSCOW — Russia wants to use music by 19th-century composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky as its replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics, the president of the...
Faceoff between Hanyu and Chen easily goes to Olympic champ
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The faceoff between Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen was no contest.
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Russia’s Shcherbakova wins women’s short program at worlds
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Anna Shcherbakova, Russia's three-time national champion, won the free skate Wednesday at the World Figure Skating Championships.
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