Women skaters intrigue with triple Axel potential at World Championships
Will anyone land the triple Axel cleanly in women's competition at the World Figure Skating Championships this week?
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Skater Kamila Valieva returns for Russian-only event despite ongoing doping case
Thirty-seven days after her dramatic fall from grace at the Winter Olympics, Kamila Valieva will return to competition in Saransk this weekend with no apparent conclusion to the doping case that blighted the Beijing Games in sight.
Absences loom large with Russians out of figure skating world championships
PARIS: The absence of most of the Olympic medallists, amid sanctions against Russia, will make this week's figure skating world championships in Montpellier an unusual affair.
Figure skating-Absences loom large with Russians out of world championships
PARIS : The absence of most of the Olympic medallists, amid sanctions against Russia, will make this week's figure skating world championships in Montpellier an unusual affair.
World Figure Skating Championships 2022 - Will Russia, Kamila Valieva, Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova compete?
The 2022 World Figure Skating Championships will be missing some of its biggest names in Montpellier, with Russian and Belarusian athletes blocked from competing. The International Skating Union was one of a number of sporting organisations to block representatives from the countries competing, following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia and Belarus figure and speed skaters, including Kamila Valieva, banned from competing after Ukraine invasion
The international union that governs skating has banned athletes from Russia and Belarus from its competitions across figure skating and speed skating. The International Olympic Committee took the unprecedented step on Monday of calling sports organisations around the world to ban the two nations from competing to “protect the integrity of competitions for the safety of all the participants." Ad/> The International Skating Union (ISU) said in a statement: «With immediate effect and until further notice, no skaters belonging to the ISU Members in Russia (Russian Skating Union and the Figure Skating Federation of Russia) and Belarus (Skating Union of Belarus) shall be invited or allowed to participate in International ice skating competitions including ISU Championships and other ISU Events.
Russian and Belarusian figure skaters to be barred from international competition
The International Skating Union has become the latest sporting body to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition – in a move which is likely to see Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old at the centre of the Winter Olympics doping scandal, barred from the World Figure Skating Championships later this month.
You Young hopes to join quad race next season
The quad race in women's figure skating is heating up, and You Young wants to be a part of it.