"And she's doing it on her own terms. She's the most famous female skater in the world, but she doesn't take herself too seriously. She has two parts coming out in male-dominated skate films for ...

Samarria Brevard is many things. The 24-year-old SoCal native is a top female skater, an emerging style icon and a history-changing figure in a sport that has not always been kind to outsiders.

Scott Hamilton, a 1984 figure skating gold medalist ... a contender who finished Wednesday in the top three. Behind those formidable women are the Americans: One is two-time national champion ...

Try as they might, no one was able to top her trick and she got the gold ... they get to know one another. The women’s skating competitions at the X Games were further proof of this, with the women’s ...

In the subsequent years, the triple jump would become a fixture in the programs of top female skaters. Elaine Zayak at the 1984 Olympics. The “Zayak Rule,” instituted in 1982, caps the number ...

Adelia Petrosian has been cleared to compete in Olympic figure skating qualifying and is a gold-medal contender.

(Family photos/The Washington Post collage) Perspective by Fred Bowen The United States Figure Skating Championships are being held this week in Nashville, Tennessee. The top male and female ...

Four women with impressive résumés will highlight the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday ... contest of the weeklong event, only the top two will qualify for the World ...

Hamill won Olympic gold, and Kerrigan won two Olympic medals. "We are thrilled to have these three icons of figure skating join the tour together, said tour founder, Tom Collins, who is ...

“Not really,” she says. A rising seventh grader at Villa Maria Academy, Meghan is one of the top youth female figure skaters in the nation. So advanced at the age of 12, she just skipped an ...

Two flags rose higher than the others in the women’s short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. All of the top six skaters in the event hailed from either South Korea or ...