Photos that you feel: 2022 Skate Canada
By now, you already know our intentions: to share with you those photos that take you in their arms for a while. That keep you in the moment, keep you in a bubble, and allow…
Photos that you feel: 2022 Skate America
These photos are all about encapsulating moments. Feelings. A particular state of mind. A meaningful gesture. A glance. An inside look. Again: a moment. We got inspired by so many of the photos taken by…
Stéphane Lambiel: “I want Shoma to have no limits in his dreams”
This particular interview? You may see it, and we envisioned it as a follow-up to our first conversation with Stéphane Lambiel regarding Shoma Uno; skater and coach had found one another during Shoma’s most difficult…
Shoma Uno, 2022 World champion – and other highlights from Montpellier
What a journey 2021-2022 Season has been to Japan’s Shoma Uno: winning two bronze medals at the Olympics in Beijing, one in the team event, one in the individual event – and then having the…
Ready for the GP Season? Practice photos from 2022 Skate America
Today is the day: 2022 Skate America starts in Norwood, Massachusetts – the first out of the six GP events, culminating with the Final in Turin, in December. Let’s have a recap, shall we? October…
EVENTS
2022 Worlds in Montpellier: a celebration. Relive it through photos.
This photo-story encapsulates the evidence: no better ending of Gabriella and Guillaume’s second Olympic season than savouring their triumph – Olympic triumph,…
Get a feel of the new programs. Photo-highlights from Lombardia Trophy.
This is exactly what it says it is: a photo-journey…
On dreams, goals and confidence. Notes on the women’s event at Lombardia Trophy
What might have been seen as an upsetting start of…
Inside competitive mind. Top skaters share their thoughts at the beginning of the season
Interviews, short stories, photos featuring Kaori Sakamoto, Charlène Guignard and…
FEATURES
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: following the gold fish
Taking the time to reassess Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi’s second season as a team – the one in which they missed…
Ukrainian skaters at Worlds: sending the message of a country hit by war
Head to head, we look into Lilia’s phone and we…
Team Papadakis-Cizeron-Haguenauer. Journey to the Top
World renowned coach and choreographer, one of the main figures…
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han. Olympic gold, to crown a fabulous career
Embed from Getty Images For once in the last couple…
INTERVIEWS
Adam Siao Him Fa, ready for the next 8 years of his career
France’s Adam Siao Him Fa has just finished the first World Championships of his career – literally: we’re doing this interview in…
Benoît Richaud: “For Kaori Sakamoto, this is just the beginning”
There’s so much certainty, so much conviction in this line…
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron: “We are going for the gold and we really believe in that goal”
A keen, palpable sense of anticipation surrounded Gabriella Papadakis and…
Dmitri Aliev: “Fate has gifted me with figure skating”
It was fate – he says, when talking about his…
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Kaori Sakamoto’s triumph at Worlds. Photo-highlights from the women’s event
This was Kaori Sakamoto’s Season, no doubt about it: Olympic bronze medalist in Beijing and winner of the World title in Montpellier. The peak of her career so far – and such a promise for the years to come, with all the layers of certainty…
Pairs at 2022 Worlds in Montpellier: a photo-story
One step in the 2022-2023 season already, we don’t want to let 2022 Worlds’ memories fade away – so we’re embarking in a journey meant to keep them alive. See it as a movie made of flashes, moments, layers of emotions, if you may: 2022…
Coronation. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron win Olympic gold
Embed from Getty Images The Olympic gold medal eluded them four years ago in PyeongChang, in what might have been the most disappointing, distressing moment of their career. But they built upon that disappointment and the silver medal to climb their way to the gold,…
Gold in Beijing: Nathan Chen has climbed his Mount Olympus
Nathan Chen’s expression at the start of his “Rocket Man” free skate at the Olympics? I’ve got this. Embed from Getty Images by Florentina Tone He looks relaxed, he looks confident – and he has all reasons to be. He built himself a layer of…
Men’s short program at the Olympics? We’re in awe!
They say you can’t win a competition with your short program only – but you may just lose the actual chance to fight for the gold. by Florentina Tone It was the case with skating legend Yuzuru Hanyu, who finished this particular segment of the…
THE OLYMPIC SEASON IN PHOTOS. Dancing in Espoo, at Finlandia Trophy
At the beginning of October, at 2021 Finlandia Trophy, 17 ice dance teams were debuting their programs for the Olympic season – hoping they’ll eventually reach Beijing, in the pursuit of their Olympic dreams. Some of them did, some of them didn’t – but, clearly,…
THE OLYMPIC SEASON IN PHOTOS. Women at 2021 Finlandia Trophy. In focus: Russia’s Kamila Valieva
At 2006 Olympics in Torino, Russia was winning three of the four gold medals on the table, through Evgeni Plushenko in the men’s event, Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin in pairs, Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov in ice dance. You know what else happened in…
THE OLYMPIC SEASON IN PHOTOS. Men at 2021 Finlandia Trophy
For Jason Brown, recently named in the US Olympic Team, the road to Beijing started four years ago, when he decided to make a fundamental training change, move to Toronto Cricket Club – and start from scratch. For a part of this Olympic cycle, he…
THE OLYMPIC SEASON IN PHOTOS. Pairs at 2021 Finlandia Trophy
You know that already: this year’s edition of Finlandia Trophy was a massive event – literally. With previous CS event being cancelled (Nepela Memorial in Bratislava), with everything at stake during such an important season culminating with the Olympics, the interest of skaters, coaches, federations…
THE OLYMPIC SEASON IN PHOTOS. 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy
Nebelhorn Trophy is a wonderful annual competition by itself – but every four years it has an additional layer of sparkles. You know what this means: skaters are offered a chance to qualify or secure spot(s) for their countries at the Olympics. And that was…