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In 2022, the Russian Olympic Committee entered the team event as the favorite, with the United States, Canada, and Japan also expected to be in medal contention. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The ROC decided to enter their top skaters for both the short program and free skating and initially won the event nine points ahead of the United States, who initially ...
Assault of Nancy Kerrigan. Harding v. US Figure Skating Ass'n, 851 F. Supp. 1476 (D. Or. 1994) On January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan, an American figure skater, was struck on the lower right thigh with a baton by assailant Shane Stant as she walked down a corridor in Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Kerrigan had been practicing skating on an ice ...
The women's singles competition in figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February (short program) and 17 February (free skating), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Haidian District of Beijing. [1] Anna Shcherbakova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the event, and her teammate, Alexandra Trusova, the silver medal.
Valieva, the 26th of the 30 skaters who performed, took to the ice while Karen Chen of Team USA awaited her scores, smoothly skating the length of the rink as a warmup. She skated over to her ...
During the figure skating team event at the start of the Olympics, Valieva helped her team win the gold medal with her untouchable total score of 178.92, nabbing the top spot herself in the women ...
Main article: Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. A total of 144 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter a maximum of 18 skaters, with a maximum of nine men or nine women. An additional five quota spots were made available for host ...
Team USA’s Olympic figure skating team is packed with talent — making them a strong competitor in every event. The roster for the 2022 Beijing Games, which kicked off on Friday, February 4, is ...
At the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, allegations arose that the pairs' figure skating competition had been fixed. The controversy led to two pairs teams receiving gold medals: the original winners Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia and original silver-medalists Jamie Salé and David Pelletier of Canada.