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The 2021–22 figure skating season began on July 1, 2021 and ended on June 30, 2022. During this season, elite skaters competed on the ISU Championship level at the 2022 European , Four Continents , World Junior , and World Championships , as well as at the 2022 Winter Olympics .
A total of 144 quota spots were distributed to figure skating, a decline of four from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. [2] [3] Beginning with the 2021–22 season, the International Skating Union (ISU) renamed "ladies' singles" as "women's singles". [4] A total of five events were contested: one for men, one for women, and three mixed. [5]
Since figure skating was held during the Summer Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920 before being moved to the Winter Olympic, three skaters won medals in figure skating at both the Summer and Winter Games. Men's singles skater Gillis Grafström's first gold medal was earned at the 1920 Summer Olympics. His other three medals were won at the 1924 ...
Members from the 2022 U.S. Olympic figure skating team are being awarded historic gold medals nearly two years after the Beijing Olympics thanks to a Russian doping scandal.
Today Two years after the last winter Olympics, Team USA has officially won its first gold medal in the team figure skating event. During the Beijing Olympics in 2022, Team USA — Nathan Chen ...
Hanyu was third in the free skating to move up to fourth overall, surpassing Cha Jun-hwan who finished in fifth. The top three from the short program retained their positions, with Chen also winning the free skating to capture the Olympic title by over 22 points ahead of Kagiyama and nearly 40 points ahead of Uno. [6]
Michael Reaves/Getty Images Team USA’s 2022 Olympic figure skating team finally received their gold medals during the 2024 Paris Games. During a special ceremony on Wednesday, August 7, Evan ...
In mid-November, WADA requested that CAS take up the review of the Valieva case with an eye towards a four-year suspension of Valieva, which would exclude her from competition at the next Winter Olympics, and to rescind her first-place performance at the previous Beijing Olympics because, "the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) did not meet a ...