What makes it so impressive? Any axel jump–single, double, triple, or quad–actually involves an extra half rotation. So a single axel is really 1.5 turns in the air, the double 2.5, and so on. So yes, ...

Cortina? Explore the high-stakes jump as figure skating stars Amber Glenn, Adeliia Petrosian and Alysa Liu battle at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The Olympian demonstrated the jump three days after she couldn't execute it during her short program performance in the women ...

Japanese figure skaters placed in three of the top four spots after the women’s short program, but only six points separated ...

Had Glenn fallen, she would have had an automatic one-point deduction — a better outcome than the zero earned for an invalid ...

The reigning U.S. champion, Glenn arrived in Milan with hopes of winning an individual gold medal. Just two fateful seconds ...

American figure skater Amber Glenn didn't fall, so why did her score plummet? An "invalid element" turned a clean skate into ...

MILAN — Ilia Malinin keeps teasing fans at the Milan Cortina Olympics by submitting program plans that have the American figure skating star attempting the quad axel, a 4 1/2-revolution jump so ...

All eyes are on American Ilia Malinin as men's figure skating gets underway at the 2026 Olympics. The 21-year-old first-time Olympian is already making waves for groundbreaking achievements in figure ...

Even casual fans of figure skating have likely heard of the triple axel. And now, thanks to U.S. men’s champion Ilia Malinin, you’ll be hearing a lot about the quadruple axel, or quad axel, too. What ...