Category Archives: EVENTS

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,…

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…

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 or at home, in front of their screens –, it was no doubt…

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 in André Ravix ice rink, and the eyes of the skating world see the debut of Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron, who had announced…

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 need to double-check what they were seeing: Olympic champions Wenjing Sui and Cong…