“My Olympic season has already started”. Interview with Matteo Rizzo
“ – I’m not going to Worlds. – You’re not going to Worlds…?!” What does this mean, you ask? It means that we hadn’t properly done our homework before interviewing Matteo Rizzo at 2025 Bellu…
A year in the life of Julia Sauter. And her ultimate goal: earning a spot for Romania at 2026 Olympics
Julia Sauter has had a rough year, with doubts, anxiety and sleepless nights. But also coaching changes she felt she needed in order to move on, and an acute sense of urgency to find her…
Josefin Taljegard: “The Olympics next year? I feel like I would want to do it, and I may still continue to fight for it”
Josefin Taljegard could have said No to this interview. After all, she came to Bucharest, at 2025 Bellu Memorial, straight from Road to 26 Trophy in Assago (photo above), the end of a tour de…
Emilia Monika Ziobrowska & Shiloh Douglas Judd’s first competitive season in photos
Now that you know Emilia and Shiloh, and understand their partnership is such an important, decisive step for the Romanian figure skating as a whole, we invite you to see exactly how their season went.…
In focus: Emilia Monika Ziobrowska, Shiloh Douglas Judd and the start of their Romanian journey
On December 14th, 2024, Emilia Monika Ziobrowska and Shiloh Douglas Judd competed in EduSport Trophy in Otopeni, Romania, the first international event of their career, and became the first senior ice dance team that Romania…
EVENTS
Ana Sofia Beschea and her second Europeans. Plus: a one-of-a-kind legacy
Romania’s Ana Sofia Beschea didn’t have the ideal preparation for 2025 Europeans. And “not ideal” is actually a euphemism for how the…
2024 EduSport Trophy in Romania: the dance edition. Zoom in on a historic debut
EduSport Trophy in Otopeni, Romania, has always been about single…
Amber Glenn: her time to shine has come – and she’s now Grand Prix Final champion
Listen: this has been a dream season for Amber Glenn.…
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: a journey through the history of dance
Hawaii Five-O, Let’s Twist Again, Rock Around the Clock, Stayin’…
FEATURES
L’Apprenti Sorcier in Champéry. Key word: magic. Key word: light
Did this really happen? L’Apprenti Sorcier in Champéry, Switzerland – this thing of magic, at the beginning of August, did it really…
Meet Nikita Sheiko and his skating family: “This season, we want medals on the Junior Grand Prix circuit, not just participate”
Embed from Getty Images Who is this teenager, only 16…
The men’s free skate at 2024 Worlds in Montreal? One for the ages
You know, skating can be thrilling in so many ways.…
History made for Romanian women’s skating at 2024 Europeans – on many different levels, for many different reasons
You know that by now: Julia Sauter finished 2024 Europeans…
INTERVIEWS
Raffaella Cazzaniga on Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii: “Their biggest quality – their skating skills”
We met Raffaella Cazzaniga at Crystal Skate in Otopeni, Romania, just one week before the Grand Prix in Angers, France, where Italy’s…
Coach Cédric Tour on Adam Siao Him Fa: “There’s something changed in him this season: now he understands he can win”
For a little while, Adam Siao Him Fa was on…
In focus: Julia Sauter and Ana Sofia Beschea, Romania’s skaters at 2024 Europeans
This will be Julia Sauter’s 7th Europeans – and Ana…
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: “Going into this year, the focus was: Find joy”
On the ice, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are some…
More Articles
Finding one’s style: Ilia Malinin in Grenoble & other photo-stories
Ilia Malinin’s biggest take away this season, the way we see it? Him finding his style, him cementing his style – and Ilia’s style is raw, is bold, is contemporary, just like his butterfly twist, if you may. And it’s particularly visible in his short…
Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin: Grand Prix Final dominance
The short version of the pairs’ event in Grenoble? Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin repeated as Grand Prix Final champions, Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara finished second, while Georgia’s Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava won the bronze in the first senior Grand…
That’s a first: Romania has a senior ice dance team starting this season
Listen, Romania has a dance team on the senior level – the first time in history when that happens: Emilia Monika Ziobrowska and Shiloh Douglas Judd are set to compete at the end of this week at 2024 EduSportTrophy. Emilia (20) and Shiloh (29) have…
INSIDE OUR PHOTO-ARCHIVE: 2023 Grand Prix Espoo. A visual feast
As promised, we’re heading into this year’s action in Finland remembering last season. We came back to the photos of 2023 Finlandia Trophy, and it’s now time for a dive into 2023 Grand Prix Espoo. Held at Espoo Metro Areena, from November 17-19, 2023, it…
INSIDE OUR PHOTO-ARCHIVE: 2023 Finlandia Trophy
Let us brag: Inside Skating photo-archive is a gold mine. Literally. If you close your eyes and choose a photo, any photo, it turns out you picked a great one – you can’t go wrong. And because we have this sea of beautiful photos to…
Ferragosto in Varese: the Japanese skaters started their journey to 2026 Milano Cortina
“Buon Ferragosto”, they say in Italy on August 15th, celebrating the beautiful days of summer (and the nostalgia surrounding the fast approaching end of it…) – and for the people in Varese, northern Italy, Ferragosto of 2024 was surely one to remember: Acinque Ice Arena…
Shoma Uno’s last competitive short program & other photos from Worlds
Back in March, when Japan’s Shoma Uno won the men’s short program at 2024 Worlds, little did we know it was his last competition. To music from the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, choreographed by Stéphane Lambiel, this particular program starting with the almost…
Pairs in Montreal: what a treat!
We remember the feeling so well: at the end of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara’s short program in Montreal, we were happy. Their performance to “Dare You to Move”, as played by a string quartet, had been exhilarating to watch. Their joy, enthusiasm while skating,…
Kaori Sakamoto, a three-time World champion, and other photostories
We start with the history-maker: Kaori Sakamoto. The first Japanese skater of any discipline to win back-to-back-to-back World titles – three consecutive World champion titles, that is. And the first woman to do so since Peggy Fleming in 1966-1967-1968. In Montreal, at this edition of…
Photos you don’t want to miss from 2024 Worlds. Ice dancers in focus
There’s the thing: we love beautiful, meaningful photos as much as we love stories. And we have plenty of them – stories and photos – from the World Championships in Montreal. We start with ice dancers: you can find the results here, and the emotions…