MOSCOW (AP) — Russian figure skater Alexander Enbert is putting his career on hold because of unspecified medical reasons.

Enbert won world championship bronze in pairs with partner Natalia...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota figure skating coach was sentenced Friday to 24 years in prison for sexually abusing one of his skaters.

To call Tom Collins the father of figure skating tours might be hyperbole. Then again ...

"Tommy treated everyone like family," Michelle Kwan, the greatest skater of her generation, said...

Alysa Liu became the first American woman to land a quad in competition when she hit her signature quadruple lutz during a dominant free skate to win the Junior Grand Prix on Saturday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Aurora Games, an international multi-sport competition and entertainment festival with female competitors, will be staged two more times in the next three years.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fourteen-year-old Alysa Liu successfully landed a quadruple lutz, widely considered the hardest jump in figure skating, during the U.S. champion's long program at the Aurora...

Richard Callaghan, who coached Tara Lipinski to Olympic gold, has been banned from figure skating by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Olympic ice dancers champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates, fresh off their win at Four Continents, will compete at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic for the...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When former UCLA gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field was asked to be part of the inaugural Aurora Games, she jumped at the chance. Celebrating the female athlete is right up...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former member of the U.S. national figure skating team said in a lawsuit Friday that he was sexually molested as a teenage boy by a coach who the sport's governing body had...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — New York's Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has approved plans to modernize Lake Placid's Olympic Center.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — French skating champion Mae-Berenice Meite has been added to the lineup of the inaugural Aurora Games.

Meite, a five-time French national champion, will join Mirai...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova, twice an Olympic medalist in the team event, has retired aged 29 shortly after giving birth to her first child.

BARRE, Vt. (AP) — Barre officials have approved a nearly six-figure repair to the city's indoor ice arena.

A component in the BOR arena's refrigeration system that makes ice is...

Three-time U.S. champion Nathan Chen will begin his 2019-20 figure skating season at Skate America in Las Vegas.

Chen, who has won the last two world titles, will be joined by defending...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Aurora Games will feature the top-ranked women's beach volleyball team on the U.S. tour, led by April Ross and Alix Klineman.

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada, the 2018 world champion and Olympic bronze medalist, is going out on top.

The 23-year-old Osmond announced her retirement from competitive...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sharon Cohen believes Figure Skating in Harlem represents a microcosm of the sport itself. That's one reason the organization is honoring 2001 U.S. champion and 2002 Olympic bronze...

NEW YORK (AP) — Somehow, in the midst of his freshman season at Yale, Nathan Chen has found time to escape the classroom and the study hall and the tests.

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Russia's Elizaveta Tuktamysheva won the women's free skate but the United States held on to its huge overnight lead to win figure skating's World Team Trophy for the fourth...

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Two-time world champion Nathan Chen and teammate Vincent Zhou dominated the men's free skate on Friday and increased the lead of the United States at figure skating's World...

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Two-time world champion Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou combined for a 1-2 finish in the men's short program Thursday to give the United States the lead on the opening day of...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — How dedicated is Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir to his hometown training rink, The Skating Club of Wilmington?

When the Delaware resident was recently cast in a...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — World champion Nathan Chen and ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue will lead the U.S. team that competes at the World Team Trophy next month in Fukuoka,...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Defending champion Nathan Chen delivered a spectacular free skate Saturday to win the gold medal again at the figure skating world championships.

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Olympic champion Alina Zagitova won the free skate to capture her first title at the figure skating world championships on Friday.

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Defending champion Nathan Chen upstaged two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu to lead the short program at the figure skating world championships on Thursday.

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China won the free skate to claim the gold medal in pairs at the figure skating world championships on Thursday.

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Olympic champion Alina Zagitova produced a season-best score Wednesday to take the lead after the short program on the opening day of the world figure skating...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu says he has recovered from an ankle injury and is ready to compete for the title at the world figure skating...

TOKYO (AP) — Defending champion Nathan Chen heads to the world figure skating championships in Japan balancing the rigors of competition with the scholastic requirements of being an undergraduate...

MOSCOW (AP) — Two-time world figure skating champion Evgenia Medvedeva has returned to the Russian national team ahead of next month's world championships.

VELIKY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) — Evgenia Medvedeva beat Elizaveta Tuktamysheva in the Russian Cup final on Friday and boosted her hopes of a dramatic return to the Russia team for the world...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The organization that investigates accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse in sports in the U.S. has halted its probe into figure skater John Coughlin, the two-time national pairs champion who died by suicide last month.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The American ice dance duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates gained some huge momentum with the World Championships a month away.

Chock and Bates captured the first major international title of their career Sunday at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.

They scored 126.25 points during their free dance, which was to a medley of Elvis Presley tunes, and finished with 207.42 points to edge Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who totaled 203.93 points.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shoma Uno was the first skater in Saturday's final group of the men's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. He ended up executing a flawless program that no one was able to match.

The Japanese skater won the men's title by successfully landing three quadruple jumps during his four-minute program, including one in combination. The 197.36 points was the highest score in an international competition this season.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Japan's Rika Kihira was steadfast that she was going to land a triple axel at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championship.

She didn't land it during the short program and found herself in fifth place going into Friday night's free skate. She successfully nailed it on her first jump and put together a flawless four-minute program set to "Beautiful Storm" by Jennifer Thomas.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Alysa Liu has had a hectic couple of weeks since becoming the youngest national champion in U.S. figure skating history.

The 13-year-old has been busy with interviews and made an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." Even though Liu is too young to compete in international junior and senior-level competitions, she is watching this weekend's Four Continents Championships and skated in Thursday night's opening ceremony.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Americans haven't swept the men's and ladies' divisions at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships since 2007. They are in good position to end that drought after Thursday's short programs.

Vincent Zhou and Bradie Tennell had sharp, clean skates and are both in the lead for the first time in an international competition.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mariah Bell has a slight advantage going into the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. The international meet is basically being held in her backyard.

Bell trains in Lakewood, which is 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the Honda Center. It is the first time since the 2009 World Championship in Los Angeles that Southern California has hosted an International Skating Union event. The meet begins Thursday with the ladies and men's short programs.

DETROIT (AP) — The present and future of American figure skating were on display at last week's national championships.

Nathan Chen and Alysa Liu were captivating, but it remains to be seen how much they can help the U.S. rebound on the international stage.

DETROIT (AP) — Nathan Chen was skating up to collect his medal — gold, of course — when he tripped on the small carpet in front of the podium and nearly fell.

DETROIT (AP) — Competitors but not exactly rivals, the top two ice dancing teams at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships put on a stirring show for all their fans in Michigan.

In the end, the order of finish was no real surprise: Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue in first place, with Madison Chock and Evan Bates in second.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Javier Fernandez ended an illustrious figure skating career with his seventh consecutive European title after Russian rival Mikhail Kolyada floundered in the free skate on Saturday.

Fernandez was third after the short program but in the free skate he stormed into the lead with two quadruple jumps and 179.75 points for a total of 271.59.

DETROIT (AP) — Alysa Liu was already a phenom. Now she's a national champion at age 13.

Liu stole the show Friday night, breezing through a free skate that included two triple axels and dethroning 2018 winner Bradie Tennell at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Liu became the youngest winner of an individual title at this event, and after her score was posted, she put her hands over her face, overcome with emotion .

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Sofia Samodurova stormed past fellow Russian and Olympic champion Alina Zagitova to win the European figure skating title on Friday.

Samodurova's clean free skate included seven triple jumps and scored a personal best 140.96 for a total of 213.84, 15.50 points ahead of Zagitova in the duel of the two 16-year-olds.

Zagitova, who led after the short program, fell on a triple toe loop and put her hand down on a triple lutz. She was tearful when receiving her marks.

DETROIT (AP) — Bradie Tennell answered questions with the calm confidence of a defending champion.

Alysa Liu — all of 13 years old — seemed a little more in awe of her surroundings.

Tennell and Liu sat next to each other at the news conference after Thursday night's short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. They're next to each other in the standings, too. Tennell has the lead as she pursues a repeat title at this event, but Liu is a strong second after landing a triple axel.

DETROIT (AP) — Two U.S. Figure Skating executives urged a full investigation into abuse allegations against former skater and coach John Coughlin, who killed himself last week.

Anne Cammett, president of the federation, and David Raith, USFS executive director, held a news conference at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday. Cammett mentioned abuse allegations against Coughlin, but she and Raith did not go into detail.