Ice Skating News

For the second time in a year Kansas City will miss out on an opportunity to host the US Figure Skating Championships.

Canada's Charles Hamelin, front, skates to a first place finish ahead of Korea's Kim Seoung II, left, and Travis Jayner of the United States in the men's 1500-metre event final at the short track Speed Skating ISU World Cup in Montreal, Saturday, Nov., 7, 2009 .

Canadian long-track speedskater Christine Nesbitt is picking up where she left off last season.

Brian Joubert of France won the NHK Trophy on Saturday, earning his first Grand Prix title of the season with a strong performance in the free skate.

Battle of the Blades At last, a routine Canada will remember. Not that everyone will want to keep having mental pictures of Craig Simpson in a velvety blue suit and Coke-bottle glasses -- but his portrayal of Austin Powers was so impressive, even before he attempted the competition's first jumps.

DENVER – Chris Stewart formulated a plan as he fidgeted on the bench, readying himself just in case the shootout dragged out that long.

J.R. Celski could hear his mother screaming. The 19-year-old rising star had crashed right in front of his parents during the U.S. short track speedskating championships Sept.

Fitness is a family value. Eric Heiden, M.D. Tribune Media Services November 6, 2009 I grew up during the 1950s and '60s in Madison, WI, in a family that lived and breathed sports, and I don't mean watching sports.

Speedskating just got a huge ratings boost in the U.S. this week -- with seemingly everyone but Canadian athletes paying attention.

Ashley Wagner of the United States finished first in the women's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday, edging Miki Ando of Japan.

Ten years after Conseco Fieldhouse opened its doors, this shrine to Indiana basketball -- part museum, part arena -- remains one of the most revered basketball venues in the nation and has altered the idea of what an NBA arena should be.

The skating rink at Knights Plaza is part of the holiday season Light Up UCF event.

IT'S not every day that you get the chance to enter the world of a real-life Disney princess.

FORT WORTH, Texas It seemed like the perfect penultimate column Thursday, a guy with one foot already stepping out of the newsroom door writing about another with one well-sharpened skate hanging out the American Airlines Center door.

Two-time Olympic silver medallist Elvis Stojko releases the first single from his new album today, called "Let Me Be The One." The album by the seven-time Canadian figure skating champion, entitled "100 Lifetimes," will be released later this fall.

Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein must wait to discover if she has won her appeal against a two-year ban for blood doping.

U.S. Figure Skating announced today the selection of San Jose, Calif., as the host city for the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Jan.

A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

Short track speedskater J.R. Celski is confident he'll recover from a deep gash to his leg in time for February's Vancouver Olympics.

YOUNGSTERS can look forward to dancing on ice when free ice skating rinks come to Rochford district.