Nathan Chen hopped on a plane to Italy. This week, he’ll be in the Milano Ice Skating Arena, analyzing every move of the men’s Olympic figure skating field. Yet he’ll have an unusual vantage point for ...

Ilia Malinin's painful falls at the Milan Cortina Games follow in a long tradition of great U.S. athletes who get the "yips" ...

Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without ...

This was not supposed to be a competition, but a coronation. Ilia Malinin had won 14 consecutive figure skating events over the last three years. He is the two-time world champion. He’d carried his ...

With the Winter Olympics in full swing, a whole new cast of athletes is claiming the spotlight. And one of the biggest ...

We’ve seen a gold medal favorite in men’s figure skating falter at the Olympics before. In 2018, Nathan Chen had a disastrous 17 th-place finish in the short program, putting him so far behind that ...

Ilia Malinin begins his quest for Olympic gold in the men's singles figure skating competition beginning with the short program on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Known as the "Quad God," Malinin comes from an ...

U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move was banned from competition for decades until 2024.

A bull, a building or a matador -- will Team USA's figure skating style win gold at the 2026 Winter Games? Learn more about ...

Stream every moment and every medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Peacock. Read more NBC News coverage of the Olympics ...

After the doping scandal at the center of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, I wrote that if skating could not find a way to address the treatment of children in the sport, I was prepared to walk away.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek, a Canadian pairs skater, is trying to make history at the Olympics — despite a training accident a week before the Games. Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps at the 2026 ...