First, it’s important to know, first, that each skate blade has two edges with a curve -- or hollow -- in the middle. If you stand with your feet together, the edges that face each other are the ...

Let's make no bones about it: the headlining sport in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. No other sport comes close to the drama, the athletes, the subplots, and politics that figure skating has.

The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop, salchow ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Top-level figure skating is extremely popular with TV viewers, who love the athleticism and grave of the sport. But ask most people to tell you what a lutz is... or how the toe loop ...

Quadruple jumps combine a complex array of kinetic forces: horizontal as the skater builds up speed for the jump; vertical, as they launch into the jump; and rotational as they revolve as quickly as ...