I was hit by a thunderbolt last week. Sometimes creative thoughts bounce around in our heads for a while before coalescing in a moment of clarity. That is what happened with me. What is it I came up with? Pretty straightforward. The idea to have a Japan Figure ...

Shoma Uno first stepped on the ice at five, but it was the rough-and-tumble of hockey he had his eyes on — until a chance meeting with a figure skater changed everything. The skater was Mao Asada, now a household name and two-time Olympian who ...

At last month's Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Ice Time sat down with ISU announcer Ted Barton, whose voice is well known to Japanese skating fans, for a discussion on a wide range of skating issues, including the International Judging System. Barton handles the commentary ...

Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen, the top three finishers at the national championships, were selected Saturday to the U.S. team for the Pyeongchang Olympics. Three-time U.S. champ Ashley Wagner, who complained vigorously about the marks after the free skate, was not included. Four ...

Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen, the top three finishers at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, were selected Saturday morning to the U.S. team for the Pyeongchang Olympics. U.S. Figure Skating uses a committee to decide the squad, and it went with the results ...

Mirai Nagasu was fighting nerves. Karen Chen was fighting illness. Bradie Tennell fought them off to win the U.S. Figure Skating Championships women's title Friday night. Then they all cried. Rising star Tennell's near-perfect free skate earned her first national crown and almost certainly a spot on ...

A downer of a practice led to some soaring skating and jumping for Nathan Chen. Chen made it look easy on the ice and in the standings Thursday night, running away with the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. His winning performance came ...

Rising star Bradie Tennell continued her breakout season by winning the women's short program Wednesday night at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Tennell saved the best short program of her career for the most important event. With takeoffs and landings so soft a butterfly would ...

Imagine working for years, targeting one of the most elusive goals in sports. Then recognizing that all of those practices and training and competitions lead to four minutes or so when you must be at your best. Or else the dream collapses. That's how American figure ...

It is the $64 million question. Will defending Olympic and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu, coming off a significant injury, be able to go to the Pyeongchang Games next month without a competition beforehand and add a second gold medal to the one he won in ...

This time the Japan Skating Federation got it right. Twelve years after controversially sending Miki Ando to the 2006 Turin Olympics when Yukari Nakano had enjoyed a better season and finished ahead of Ando at the Japan nationals, the JSF made the correct decision Sunday ...

Kaori Sakamoto said Monday she still has room to improve, a day after she was handed one of Japan's two spots for the women's figure skating competition at February's Pyeongchang Olympics. "I'm really happy," said Sakamoto, who is still in her first year on the ...