More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

It's official: Figure skating is entering a new boom period in the United States. Alysa Liu, Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, and the rest of Team USA have brought excitement to figure skating in the ...

It became clear after the Beijing Games that women's figure skating needed a reset. Enter the comeback of Alysa Liu. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) Analysis by Robert Samuels MILAN — Alysa Liu ...

Figure skating has become a sport that awards athletes for achieving speed, spins and jumps – and the ability to land with grace on a steel blade 4 mm (0.16-inch) wide on a notoriously slippery ...

After she finished her free skate, the house coming down all around her, Alysa Liu gave her ponytail a flick, stuck the toe of her skate into the ice and turned to take her bow. Before she did, she ...

If she wasn’t already, Alysa Liu became a household name Thursday at the 2026 Winter Games. Liu won the gold medal in women’s figure skating, becoming the first American woman to stand atop the podium ...

Team USA women's figure skater Alysa Liu won gold in the women's free skate final Thursday, ending a 20-year medal drought for American women in the event and a 24-year drought for gold. The last ...

The final figure skating event of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics has come and gone, and boy, was it a good one. Team USA's Alysa Liu took home the gold on Thursday following a flawless performance to ...

Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the silver medal in ice dance at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The American duo believes the confusing results do a disservice to figure skating and its fans. Judges' ...

United States figure skater Ilia Malinin may have been favored to take home medals entering the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, but he admitted not being well-prepared to do so. Malinin, nicknamed the "Quad ...

For the first time in a generation, Team USA has a gold-medal winner in individual women's figure skating. Alysa Liu stood on the top of the podium at the Milano Ice Skating Arena after taking a ...

Team USA’s ‘Blade Angels‘ will take to the ice for their final skating performances in the women’s individual figure skating competition at 1PM ET on February 19, 2026. Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, and ...