Category Archives: FEATURES

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 years of age, but so mature and so ambitious? The surprise winner of the European Youth Olympic Festival, in 2023, in Pontebba, Italy. A customary…

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 in Kaunas with yet another historical performance for the country she’s been representing for more than a decade. This 9th place in Lithuania, the best…

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,…

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…

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,…