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 ...

"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.

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 ...

“with the second-highest free skate and total score in U.S. Championships history,” according to Figure Skating Online. The U.S.'s top male figure skater lives and trains in Northern Virgini ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Figure skating fans can also tune into the action ... to qualify for the team events with the teams consisting of one male skater, one female skater, one pair and one ice dance couple.

This, then, raises the question, why is the culture of figure skating shrouded in homophobia, when so many athletes identify as a part of the LGBTQ+ community? While the stereotype that all male ...