Worlds marks the last competition of the 2025-2026 season. Skaters have some time to go on tour, rest up and learn new routines before the next season starts in July.
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Americans seek redemption at figure skating worlds, just weeks after the Olympics
Figure Skating World Championships in Prague end on Saturday. Americans Amber Glenn and Ilia Malinin are within medals’ reach after disappointing finishes at last month’s Olympics.
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Olympian Alysa Liu has also inspired fans off the ice — in the hair salon
The gold medal-winning figure skater came to the Milano Cortina winter games with a distinctive “raccoon” hairstyle — alternating rings of dark and light hair. Now, fans are following her lead.
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U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu said she didn’t care if she medaled. She won gold
Liu is the first American woman to win an individual figure skating gold medal since Sarah Hughes in 2002.
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The U.S. falters again in figure skating, but the women still have time to make it up
Alysa Liu finished the night in third place, Isabeau Levito finished in eighth and Amber Glenn is in 13th place after a popped jump. That puts extra pressure on all of them for Thursday’s medal event.
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U.S. women’s figure skaters could’ve been rivals. Instead, they’re the ‘Blade Angels’
Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito are the U.S.’ best shot at winning women’s figure skating gold since 2002 — and of closing out these Games on a high note.
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Ilia Malinin, figure skater favored for gold, finishes 8th
Malinin, undefeated since 2023, stumbled and fell multiple times, landing far off the podium. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold in an upset that shocked even himself.
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Can you medal in quiz? Go for the gold!
Plus: more Olympics, the Super Bowl and some monks.
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Reporter’s notebook: A Dutch speedskater and a U.S. influencer walk into a bar …
NPR’s Rachel Treisman took a pause from watching figure skaters break records to see speed skaters break records. Plus, the surreal experience of watching backflip artist Ilia Malinin.
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Ilia Malinin’s Olympic backflip made history. But he’s not the first to do it
U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move was banned from competition for decades until 2024.
