Category Archives: FEATURES

Kaori Sakamoto: “In this world of figure skating, I tried to make a sunnier, brighter atmosphere, so that everybody could compete in a positive way”

On a sunny Sunday in Prague, around noon – and not just any Sunday, but the one that marked the end of 2026 World Figure Skating Championships –, I felt the luckiest journalist on Planet…

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…

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…

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 end of December 18th. We stick by it: Klaudia Adamczak took some amazing…