Women’s figure skating at the Pyeongchang Olympics was billed as a showdown between Olympics Athletes from Russia Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova, and the Russian skaters delivered Wednesday at Gangneung Ice Arena. Zagitova set a new short program record with her score of 82.92 to slide into first place, ahead of Medvedeva by 1.31 points. If the 15-year-old Zagitova holds...

Just 26 days older than a 15-year-old Tara Lipinski in 1998, Alina Zagitova’s back-loaded, point-gobbling programs and seemingly unbreakable teenage nerve earned the Olympic Athletes from Russia team its first gold medal of the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

The former ice skater and current analyst talked about the Americans gearing up for the upcoming women’s figure skating event.

The U.S. women had a disappointing showing in figure skating in Pyeongchang. Their struggles in the short program carried over into the free skate.

Ten-year-old U.S. Figure Skating juvenile boys champion Keita Horiko and his brother have Olympic-size dreams, and when they watch figure skating at the Pyeongchang Games, they’ve got plenty of role models — a history-making U.S. figure skating team where half of the 14 members are Asian-American.

US figure skater Mirai Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel at the Olympic

Mirai Nagasu has gone from teenage wunderkind and U.S. champion to fourth-place finisher at the Vancouver Olympics to passed over and nearly forgotten. And now, a Pyeongchang Games bronze medalist with, she vows, more to come.

Karen Chen was the last U.S. figure skater to make her PyeongChang debut (and her Olympic debut for that matter). A mistake on her opening jump in the short program left her in 10th place going into the free program. Two days later, her free skate also had technical mistakes, and she finished 11th overall. While Team OAR won its...

If you’re leaving Pyeongchang on Tuesday morning, check out the folks sitting next to you.
They might be wearing Olympic medals.

Karen Chen found herself in a room full of athletes, and she froze. The 18-year-old American figure skater describes herself as a “shy kid,” and her nerves were getting the best of her again. She was there hoping to trade collectable pins, a longstanding Olympic tradition that helps break the ice between people from different sports or countries. She just...

Here is an inside look into Karen Chen’s warm up routine.

The United States has not had an individual women’s figure skater stand on an Olympic podium since Sasha Cohen won the silver medal in 2006. For a nation that dominated the sport, winning seven of the 12 Olympic medals awarded from 1992-2002, the results have been disappointing. Three experts familiar with the international skating scene said the problems boil down...

The U.S. men’s curling team, coming off back-to-back Olympics finishing near the bottom of the tournament, looks to complete a stunning turnaround by winning its first-ever gold medal.

Lindsey Vonn gets another crack Tuesday at winning her first Olympic medal since 2010, when she became the face of Team USA at the Vancouver Olympics.

Karen Chen has always looked up to fellow figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. As Chen looks to win a gold medal in Pyeongchang, she hopes she can learn even more from Yamaguchi and inspire a new generation of skaters in the process.

Figure skaters are defined by their ups and downs. If they hit their jumps, they soar in the standings, often onto the podium. If they flop, it hurts, it stings, and they head home empty. Mirai Nagasu has known all of those ups and downs — plus a whole lot more. Now 24, Nagasu is going to the Olympics eight...