Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy: men
We love a serene Stephen Gogolev – and there are so many reasons to smile and be happy about: this is Stephen’s best senior season, his best international season. In his 7th season as a…
Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy: dance, dance, dance!
ShibSibs x Shibuya: A 90s Night in Tokyo, the rhythm dance of Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, has been a beautiful vehicle for them to come back in the competitive arena after a 7-year hiatus…
Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy: pairs
Flying without wings is entirely possible – our thoughts when looking at this lift by Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, photographed at 2025 Finlandia Trophy at the end of November. For 26-year old Alisa, it…
Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy (I)
We love this photo of Amber Glenn, taken in Helsinki, at 2025 Finlandia Trophy: we believe it embodies Amber’s strength, perseverance, efforts, resilience and, ultimately, her success on the international stage. In her 11th senior…
Japan Figure Skating Championships 2025. As if a door had opened…
There’s something about this photo that makes us nostalgic already. Kaori Sakamoto: first step, first practice at Japan Figure Skating Championships 2025 – for the very last time. Last first step on practice ice at…
EVENTS
Inside Skating features Japanese Nationals 2025. First stop: the draw
You’ve seen the photos from Day One at Japanese Nationals – but you haven’t seen ours, we wrote on X at the…
Beginnings. 2025 Nebelhorn Trophy in photos
In the not so distant past, Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf…
Starting the Olympic season on Italian soil: 2025 Lombardia Trophy
With Olympics in Italy next February, no wonder so many…
A star is born: Ami Nakai. A photo-story
Every little thing about Ami Nakai and her array of…
FEATURES
Goodbye? Not yet, not soon, not at all… The final season of Kaori Sakamoto
The most emotional part of this year’s Grand Prix de France in Angers? For many skating fans – whether in the audience…
Shape of water & other stories. In focus: French ice dancing at the beginning of the Olympic season
End of august, Masters de Patinage in Villard-de-Lans: the audience…
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…
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…
INTERVIEWS
Wenjing Sui: “As a veteran athlete, I feel responsible – I want to be a source of strength, to help push the younger generation forward”
On June 6th, when the International Skating Union announced the highly anticipated Grand Prix assignments, many of us might have felt the…
“My Olympic season has already started”. Interview with Matteo Rizzo
“ – I’m not going to Worlds. – You’re not…
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…
Raffaella Cazzaniga on Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii: “Their biggest quality – their skating skills”
We met Raffaella Cazzaniga at Crystal Skate in Otopeni, Romania,…
More Articles
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. Remember: this was Emilia Monika Ziobrowska and Shiloh Douglas Judd’s…
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 weeks leading to Europeans had been for her, for the entire Beschea family. As it happened last season, getting ice time prior to…
2024 EduSport Trophy in Romania: the dance edition. Zoom in on a historic debut
EduSport Trophy in Otopeni, Romania, has always been about single skating, with all its categories – the six previous editions are all here to prove it. And while the seventh edition was about single skating as well, it was first and foremost about ice dancing.…
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. Gold at 2024 Lombardia Trophy, ahead of reigning World champion Kaori Sakamoto, gold at 2024 Grand Prix de France, ahead of 2018 World silver medalist Wakaba Higuchi, gold at 2024 Cup of China, ahead of…
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: a journey through the history of dance
Hawaii Five-O, Let’s Twist Again, Rock Around the Clock, Stayin’ Alive, Car Wash, Blame it on the Boogie, Y.M.C.A., Last Dance… What are those, you ask? Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ companions in their rhythm dance this season – no less than eight trademark songs…
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…