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The 2014 and 2018 Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu and the 2018 silver medalist Shoma Uno qualified for the Olympics, whereas the bronze medalist, Javier Fernández, retired from competition in 2019. Nathan Chen, the 2021 World champion, had the highest score in the 2021–22 season prior to the 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]
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 ...
U.S. Olympic figure skating team that competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing received its gold medals at the 2024 Paris Games following controversy.
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.
Chen, 22, won a gold medal at the Olympics in Beijing a day earlier, cementing his spot as the top men's figure skater in the world and the first U.S. man to win gold since 2010.
2022 Winter Olympics [9] TES Nathan Chen USA: 65.98: 2022 Winter Olympics: PCS Yuzuru Hanyu JPN: 48.47: 2019 Skate Canada International: Free skating: TSS: Ilia Malinin USA: 227.79: 2024 World Championships [10] [11] TES Ilia Malinin USA: 137.18: 2024 World Championships: PCS Nathan Chen USA: 97.22: 2022 Winter Olympics
A touch of winter came to the Summer Games on Wednesday when the United States figure skating team finally got its gold medals as 2022 Olympic champions. The special medal ceremony allowed the ...