Compulsory figure? Skaters used to have to trace patterns on the ice as part of their training and competitions: loops, eights, and so on. That's why it's called figure skating. Those aren't ...

Julia Polniuk is ten years old. She trains figure skating – and there is not much time left for her to succeed in sports and to meet the expectations of her family, which has moved to Poland ...

"She launched figure skating's modern era," Sports Illustrated ... Fleming took a staid sport that was shackled by its inscrutable compulsory figures and arcane scoring system and, with television ...