Thirty years ago, the International Skating Union made a crowd-pleasing change to figure skating: It kicked out of competitions a segment known as compulsory figures, which required skaters to etch ...

Skating a figure eight is a little like ballroom dancing without a partner. The pattern is simplicity itself, but it doesn’t work without a rigid torso, ritual and rhythm. Start on the right outside ...

Julia Polniuk is ten years old. She trains figure skating – and there is not much time left for her to succeed in sports and to meet the expectations of her family, which has moved to Poland from ...