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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
EVENTS

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,…
That’s a first: Romania has a senior ice dance team starting this season
Listen, Romania has a dance team on the senior level…
INSIDE OUR PHOTO-ARCHIVE: 2023 Grand Prix Espoo. A visual feast
As promised, we’re heading into this year’s action in Finland…
INSIDE OUR PHOTO-ARCHIVE: 2023 Finlandia Trophy
Let us brag: Inside Skating photo-archive is a gold mine.…
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…
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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…
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.…
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 Romania on the fingers of two hands – and only if you’re generous enough to count the rinks that function a couple months per year, in tents or in balloons. And no Olympic size ice…
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…