Her figure skating started when she was 4 years old.
This decision shows why figure skating seems like a closed club.
The whole idea of figure skating is to finish among the top three in the short program.
Figure skating is still trying to move past the era of the French judge.
If figure skating was only about talent on ice, there would have been no problem.
Whatever happens at the Olympics, figure skating will never be looked upon the same.
Figure skating is a sport with participants all round the world.
Figure skating is taking center stage at the Olympics this week.
My problems center more on figure skating's double nature: is it art or sport?
Between 1924 and 1990 Russian national championships in figure skating were not held.
The Kwan watch will be part of the routine drama that makes figure skating the most popular event at the Winter Games.
He produces the German figure skating magazine Eissport-Magazin.
Biellmann remains involved in the international figure skating community as a participant in both professional shows and competitions.
In March 2007, she went to Canada to train for her figure skating with her judge, Brian Orser.
My figure skating career is not over.
This alone is not the problem in figure skating any more than it is in the more mainstream sports.
Rodriguez decided she wanted to try figure skating with her identical twin sister Victoria, after watching the 2002 Winter Olympics.
His figure skating career was destroyed by World War II.
American newspapers, he said, "made real hysteria about figures skating.
The lack of central control won't stop programmers from trying to slake viewers' appetites for figure skating with Lillehammer approaching.
Americans Natasha Kuchiki and Todd Sand in the pairs figure skating again.
Doctors have discovered a benign brain tumor in Kim Seybold, who competed in pairs figure skating with her brother in the 1988 Olympics.
With ladies figure skating the cornerstone of last night's Winter Olympics program, CBS played the flirt.
The many-layered intentions of the participants were brought to my attention at the pairs figure skating at Abe Stark Recreational Arena in Coney Island.
The parents of Kristine Stone Cruz, 18, the 2001 Puerto Rican senior nationals figure skating champion, said they had stopped the typical gender-typing almost by accident.
Hers was the swing vote that gave the gold in pairs figure skating to Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.
Rather than leave the highly rated pairs figure skating for a live super-G report on Tuesday night, CBS held the super-G for last night's prime- time program.
Elegant married couple Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov successfully defended their pairs figure skating title from Innsbruck for the Soviet Union.
A twist lift is a pairs figure skating hand-to-waist lift.
Since the 90s he is one of Germany's most successful ladies figure skating coaches.