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Japan Figure Skating Championships 2025. As if a door had opened…

There’s something about this photo that makes us nostalgic already. Kaori Sakamoto: first step, first practice at Japan Figure Skating Championships 2025 – for the very last time. Last first step on practice ice at…

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…

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…

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…

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…