“Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” pro Alan Bersten is one of the favorites to win, with his partner Mirai Nagasu, but the dancer almost didn’t make this season.Just weeks before the cast announcement, Bersten underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his neck.After experiencing stomach pains while on the “Dancing with the Stars: Live” tour […]
Continue readingThe 2018 Winter Olympics is about to come to a close…Team USA has walked away with 9 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 6 bronze medals, which amounts to 23 medals in total.Norway grabbed the most amount of medals, 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze.While everyone loves a good medal count, it’s what happened […]
Continue readingU.S.figure skater Mirai Nagasu’s 2018 Winter Olympics include a bronze-medal win in the team event after a season’s-best skating performance, followed by two subsequent routines that left her far from the podium in her individual competition.She attempted and succeeded at the tricky triple axel jump—becoming the first American woman ever to do so at the […]
Continue readingMirai Nagasu would like to explain herself.In less than two weeks at the 2018 Winter Olympics the 24-year-old American figure skater has competed through what she will readily admit was a draining experience, as full of previously unknown success as it was sharp disappointment.“I think I’ve literally cried my way through these Olympic Games,” she […]
Continue readingAlina Zagitova, an Olympic Athlete from Russia, became an Olympic champion in women’s singles. She gained 82.92 points and set a new world record.15 year old Zagitova becomes the second-youngest women’s skater to win Olympic gold after Tara Lipinski in 1998, who was about a month younger than Zagitova.Alina still can’t believe in her success: […]
Continue readingU.S.figure skater Mirai Nagasu made history near the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics when she became the first American woman to land a triple axel jump at the Games — a move that helped lift Team USA to a bronze medal.However, Nagasu will leave South Korea with two other Olympic skates behind her, both […]
Continue readingShe did it once perfectly, but she could not do it twice.Eight days after U.S.figure skater Mirai Nagasu made history as the first American woman to land the notoriously tricky triple axel jump in Olympic competition, she returned to the ice to try it again — but then slipped on the landing and fell hands- […]
Continue readingLong before Mirai Nagasu’s milestone triple axel, U.S.figure skater Carol Heiss made history as the first woman to land a double axel in competition.In 1956, she took silver at the Winter Games in Cortina, Italy — second to American Tenley Albright.Four years later, at the Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, she brought home the gold.“It […]
Continue readingThe team event in figure skating is over and the first medals in this kind of sports have found their owners. The team from Canada, consisting of Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond, Gabrielle Daleman, Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, won the gold. Kaetlyn Osmond The silver medalists are Olympic Athletes from Russia, […]
Continue readingMore than 60 years after she took home America’s first Olympic gold medal in women’s figure skating, Tenley Albright is rinkside at New York City’s Rockefeller Center, gazing at the skaters and marveling at how far her sport has come.“It’s amazing what these youngsters are doing,” Albright, now 82, tells People of Olympic hopefuls like […]
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