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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…

On dreams, goals and confidence. Notes on the women’s event at Lombardia Trophy

What might have been seen as an upsetting start of the season for the World champion – Kaori Sakamoto finished second in Bergamo, behind Rinka Watanabe – was, in fact, layered in Kaori’s conviction that…

Inside competitive mind. Top skaters share their thoughts at the beginning of the season

Interviews, short stories, photos featuring Kaori Sakamoto, Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri, Adam Siao Him Fa, Matteo Rizzo, Ekaterina Kurakova, Amber Glenn, Wakaba Higuchi, Nikolaj Memola, Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius in Bergamo. Plus: the…