The Golden Hour. Julia Sauter is living her Olympic dream
Listen: it all came together for Julia Sauter this season. The 28-year old born in Weingarten, Germany, who has been representing Romania since 2013 and making history for the Romanian figure skating ever since –…
Men in Sheffield: the battle for Olympic spots. Italy’s Nikolaj Memola and Matteo Rizzo / interview with the 2026 European silver medalist
For Italy’s Nikolaj Memola and Matteo Rizzo, 2026 Europeans acted as a skate-off – the competition that would decide who got Italy’s second men’s spot at the Olympics; with the first one already assigned to…
Men in Sheffield: the battle for Olympic spots. In focus: Estonia’s Aleksandr Selevko and Mihhail Selevko
At least four men in Sheffield had an additional weight on their shoulders, other than that of competing at one of the major events of the season, the Europeans. For Italy’s Matteo Rizzo and Nikolaj…
Women in Sheffield: the Europeans of comebacks. Plus: hands in the air for Julia Sauter
Imagine that: Estonia’s Niina Petrokina, the European champion en titre, only restarted to jump the triple Lutz and the triple Flip two weeks before 2026 Europeans (!) Two full weeks of intense training followed, with…
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…
EVENTS
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…
Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy: pairs
Flying without wings is entirely possible – our thoughts when…
Close-ups from Finlandia Trophy: women
We love this photo of Amber Glenn, taken in Helsinki,…
Japan Figure Skating Championships 2025. As if a door had opened…
There’s something about this photo that makes us nostalgic already.…
FEATURES
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
More Articles
Beginnings. 2025 Nebelhorn Trophy in photos
In the not so distant past, Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf was a key-competition during the Olympic season – the last chance to qualify Olympic spots, hence a heavily contested and emotionally charged event. This season, with the Olympic qualifier moved to Beijing, China (see the…
Starting the Olympic season on Italian soil: 2025 Lombardia Trophy
With Olympics in Italy next February, no wonder so many top skaters chose to start their season on Italian soil – in Bergamo, at the Challenger Series event Lombardia Trophy. Medals were awarded in men, women and ice dance categories, with Ilia Malinin, Rion Sumiyoshi…
A star is born: Ami Nakai. A photo-story
Every little thing about Ami Nakai and her array of movement is just exquisite. Is it as if every performance is made of hundreds, thousands of beautiful moments, while still being flowy, and liquid, and telling a story from top to finish. Those were our…
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…