Previews

by Katie Tetzloff / Photo by Daphne Backman This season’s Junior Grand Prix (JGP) Series will kick off this week with the Volvo Cup in Riga, Latvia. The competition runs…

Prior to London, Ontario, and since ice dancing was added in 1952, Canada has hosted the World Championships seven times. A Canadian ice dance team has never won gold at…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss This week, Milan, Italy, will host its first World Junior Figure Skating Championships, welcoming 35 young teams, from those hoping to make…

Fresh off their respective national title wins, Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir of Canada and Meryl Davis & Charlie White of the United States will face off at the 2013…

What looked to be an up-for-grabs ice dance podium at the 2013 European Championships has become that much more unpredictable as 26 teams from 21 countries head to Zagreb, Croatia,…

For the first time since 1967, Omaha, Nebraska will play host to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. New this year will be the integration of the juvenile and intermediate skaters,…

The venue for this year’s Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships is a familiar sight for many of the competitors. This is the sixth consecutive season that the Hershey Centre…

 by Daphne Backman | Photo by Sean Gillis The 45th Golden Spin of Zagreb takes place this week in Croatia. Nineteen teams from 14 countries will fight for medals and…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss The Iceberg Skating Palace, future home to all figure skating events at the upcoming 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, will make…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss Six of the world’s top junior teams are ready to hit the ice in Sochi, Russia, for the Junior Grand Prix (JGP)…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Liz Chastney The Grand Prix series draws to a close with the sixth event, NHK Trophy in Sendai, Japan, featuring a full field of…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Julia Komarova If the line-up at this week’s fifth Grand Prix stop in Paris seems eerily familiar, there’s a good reason: all but two…

by Daphne Backman  The 2012 Ice Challenge will be held in Graz, Austria, from November 5 to 10. Ice Challenge is an annual competition hosted by the Austrian Figure Skating…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss Russia is taking center stage in the figure skating world in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics, and Rostelecom Cup, or Cup…

by Jacquelyn Thayer For the second consecutive season, Shanghai prepares to host Cup of China, the third stop on this year’s Grand Prix circuit. The competition here will mark the…