Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii won the European Championships. Georgia’s Anastasia Gubanova won the short program. She was followed in second place by Belgian favorite Loena Hendrickx. On Thursday, Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii, who capitalized on the absence of the usually powerful Russians, won the pairs title at the European figure skating championships in … Read more
Figure skating’s Grand Prix Final will no longer take place in Japan next week over a ban on new foreign arrivals to the country prompted by the Omicron variant, organisers said Thursday. Separately, Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin’s world title fight against Ryota Murata in Japan is now in doubt, with promoters telling AFP they do not … Read more
Russian youngster Kamila Valieva became the first woman to break the 270-point barrier as she underlined her status as favourite for the Winter Olympics with a comfortable success at the Rostelecom Cup on Saturday. The 15-year-old, who was also the first female figure skater to post a total score of more than 250 points, was … Read more
Russian world champion Anna Shcherbakova survived a slip on a quadruple spin to land a series of other combinations and win the women’s figure skating at the Grenoble Grand Prix on Saturday. The 17-year-old, who is favourite to take the gold at the Winter Games in February, took top spot in Friday’s short programme but … Read more
Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama claimed the men’s gold medal by a wide margin at the Grenoble figure skating Grand Prix on Saturday after Russian world champion Anna Shcherbakova survived a slip to win the women’s event. The 18-year-old Kagiyama had dominated the short programme on Friday and, after the free routine, beat Russia’s Andrei Mozalev by … Read more
