Pyeongchang 2018: Pop songs with words are good for figure skating
Purists will grumble, but familiar tunes with catchy lyrics bring energy to the sport that Tchaikovsky can’t
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Pyeongchang 2018: How can Patrick Chan fall and still finish first?
Believe it or not, it’s because figure-skating judging has gotten more honest
Q&A: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on their careers and chemistry
Olympic flag-bearers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir talk about putting down their beers, returning to competition, and Canada’s chances in Pyeongchang
What it feels like to skate with world figure skating champions
Share the ice with Canadian figure skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford as they practise choreography for their pairs program. This what it feels like to skate with the duo who won gold at this year’s world figure-skating championships in Shanghai.
For Virtue and Moir, a familiar place
Virtue and Moir skate their hearts out in the Ice Dance short program and find themselves in second
A whole lot of silver
Nine Canadian athletes share the spoils in Team Figure Skating
’When it comes to figure skating, I’d be more shocked if the fix wasn’t in.’
French magazine l’Equipe reports that Virtue and Moir may have no chance at gold
It wasn’t the skate Patrick Chan was hoping for
But the men’s competition is yet to come
Photo essay: Behind the scenes with Patrick Chan
Shadowing the Olympian at the national skating championships
Patrick Chan exposed
When the world is watching, he’s faltered. This time, he says, it will be different.