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.…
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.…
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 Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii are scheduled to begin their GP season. Coach…
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…
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 happen? I have a brochure with the schedule and a badge that says…
EVENTS
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 years of age, but so mature and so ambitious? The surprise winner…
Shoma Uno’s last competitive short program & other photos from Worlds
Back in March, when Japan’s Shoma Uno won the men’s…
Kaori Sakamoto, a three-time World champion, and other photostories
We start with the history-maker: Kaori Sakamoto. The first Japanese…
FEATURES
The men’s free skate at 2024 Worlds in Montreal? One for the ages
You know, skating can be thrilling in so many ways. Through living the music and every detail of the choreography, through incredible…
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…
In focus: Julia Sauter and Ana Sofia Beschea, Romania’s skaters at 2024 Europeans
This will be Julia Sauter’s 7th Europeans – and Ana…
The 6th edition of EduSport Trophy in Romania, as it was: short stories and photos
You can count the ice rinks (of Olympic dimensions) in…
INTERVIEWS
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 the entries list of 2024 Bellu Memorial in Otopeni, Romania – and…
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: “Going into this year, the focus was: Find joy”
On the ice, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are some…
Bruno Marcotte on Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: “What really sets them apart is the lightning that happens when they skate together”
We’re talking to Bruno Marcotte literally 15 minutes after his…
Get to know Romania’s Julia Sauter. A strong-willed, self-made skater
Two weeks before 2023 Europeans in Espoo, Julia Sauter had…
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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…
Defining moments of 2024 Worlds, as we saw them
The big stories of these championships? It’s incredibly difficult to pick just one – but no worries, we got you covered. We invite you in a journey of grand emotions, a journey of moments that defined this season’s edition of the World Championships in Montreal.…
Shoma Uno at 2023 NHK Trophy: a free skate like a journey. His journey
That how we felt – that’s how so many of you felt. It was as if Shoma Uno embarked on a journey of a career – the first couple of seconds of the program really give you that sense of beginnings, of doors that open…
2023 Grand Prix de France: Golden Adam Siao Him Fa
Some call him Adam Salto Him Fa. And others call him Adam Slay Him Fa. Both are fully deserved when looking at this year’s edition of Grand Prix de France. True, Adam already won the gold medal at this Grand Prix event one year ago,…
2023 Skate Canada in a nutshell: the rebirth of Sota Yamamoto.
And since a nutshell might prove too small for what Vancouver had to offer at this year’s edition of Skate Canada International, there you have the extended version of it all: 23-year old Sota Yamamoto, a wunderkid in his junior age, troubled by injuries throughout…
Happy 10-Year Anniversary to all of us at Inside Skating!
In October 2013, when I started Inside Skating, I didn’t dare to dream that it would come so far. 10 years later, Inside Skating is still around – and I became We, a team of enthusiasts that keeps the wheel moving, in a journey of…
Following a butterfly: Carolina Kostner
You know what? We feel we need a moment – a moment of beauty, grace, emotions, of skating back to essence – before we go along with the competitions of 2023/2024 season. Which has already started – with the Junior Grand Prix events happening every…
Ilia’s season & photos from the men’s event at 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo
No doubt, one of the biggest stories of 2022/2023 season – we dare say, the biggest – has been Ilia Malinin landing the first quad Axel in competition. We knew he had it in him, we saw videos of him landing this almost impossible jump…
Photos that you feel. Ice dancing at 2022 Grand Prix Espoo
One thing about ice dancing is that it makes you dream. It makes you travel places – follow the rhythm, the storyline with eyes wide open, with passion, with amazement, with goosebumps even. Because ice dancing has this tremendous power to make you feel, to…
Photos that you feel. Pairs Spectacular, 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo
We want you to look at these photos and have the same reaction that we had. And that’s a Wow! I love this one! And what about this ONE! Truth is, the pairs’ photos breathe a distinct air of power and athleticism – the pairs’…