There are two types of men's figure skating costumes: the boring kind (black pants, button-down shirt, and not a single sparkle) and the Johnny Weir kind (floaty, flamboyant, and caked in glitter).

If someone tries to negate it in any way, tries to tear it down, tries to question you about it, male figure skaters will defend it.” Boitano, who has devoted much of his career to mentoring and ...

And rightfully so: some of the moves female figure skaters perfect are essentially gymnastics on ice while wearing knife-shoes. While there are some notable differences between male and female ...

"Riverdance" also earned him a spot on the Sochi Olympic team in 2014, where he won a bronze medal in the team event at age 19, becoming one of the youngest male figure skating medalists.

One night in late February, Madison Hubbell and Gabriella Papadakis, Olympic gold medal ice dancers, glided into a skating exhibition in Zurich’s 85-year-old Hallenstadion to shatter one of ...

At 19, Brown became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists, winning bronze in the team event in 2014. Brown withdrew from the 2025 US championships because of issues with ...

He is the first American male figure skater to win two golds since Dick Button, who won the individual Olympic titles in 1948 and 1952. The Olympic team event for figure skating did not debut ...

“Ice dance—and figure skating in general—has been ... which once felt unattainable after 20 years of skating with a male partner. “It’s just nice to explore something that exists in ...