The sports of the Winter Olympics can be thrilling and fascinating, but there's no shame in admitting that they're a little unfamiliar to many viewers. Whereas basketball fans can identity the ...

If you have been watching figure skating throughout the 2014 Winter Olympics, it is impossible not to notice the term “twizzle” that is constantly being dropped by Tara Lipinksi and Johnny Weir ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you think of figure skating as gymnastics on ice, a mind-boggling and dizzying assortment of intricate spins, leaps, twirls, ...

With Coldplay’s “Fix You” building toward an instrumental crescendo, ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani start their twizzle sequence. They skate side-by-side across the ice and spin at the same time.

Figure skating has been an official Olympic event for well over a century, having made its debut appearance (oddly enough, at a Summer Olympics, not at a Winter Olympics) way back in London in 1908.

LONDON, Ont. — They are the public faces of these world figure skating championships, but Thursday night, those faces consisted of flashing eyes, pasted-on smiles and gritted teeth. The hometown ...

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The ice dancing competition begins Sunday with the short dance program, and features one of the most exciting rivalries at this year's Olympics between Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and the ...

Up next in the figure skating competition is ice dancing, but for those who aren’t familiar with the sport there might be some confusion between ice dancing and pairs skating. On the surface, the two ...

If you think of figure skating as gymnastics on ice, a mind-boggling and dizzying assortment of intricate spins, leaps, twirls, and jumps, then ice dancing is its more elegant ice-bound sibling. In ...

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