At its best, pairs figure skating is not only beautiful but thrilling, in a hold-your-breath kind of way. It is a high-wire act of throws and twists and ever-more-complex lifts, moves that U.S. pairs ...

Will the Chinese team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong win gold at their home Olympics? Or will reigning world champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov bring the Russian Olympic Committee its ...

For years, I have been telling people that pairs is the most exciting and most difficult discipline in figure skating. I must admit, I am severely biased here. For most of my figure skating career, I ...

Sometimes it takes a 3-year-old to teach you that you’ve been a ninny about sports. I’ve never really enjoyed figure skating that much. Traditionally, I’ve joined the quadrennial snark parade that ...

If one just looked at the results of the Olympic pairs free skate in Beijing, one might think it was a boring event. The top six teams from the short program ended up in the exact same placements in ...