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The ladies’ free skate is shaping up to be one of the greatest in Olympic history as Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva face off.
Although competing under a neutral flag in Pyeongchang, two Russians are expected to dominate ladies figure skating: Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova.
It was a question of gaps: How wide would the chasm be between Russia’s elite teenagers — 15-year-old Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, 18 — and the rest of the ...
The Russians are poised for figure skating gold. Not only are Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva the best skaters in the world, they also have a strategy that maximizes scoring.
Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva is as talented as she is terrifying There aren’t many constants in figure skating. But Medvedeva’s apparent obsession with death is one of them.
Medvedeva will not face Zagitova before December’s Grand Prix Final. At Skate Canada, the notable foes are world silver medalist Wakaba Higuchi of Japan and 2015 World champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, ...
Yevgenia Medvedeva withdrew from next week’s world figure skating championships due to a recurrence of a right foot injury that kept her out of competition in December, according to the Russian Figure ...
Training mates Evgenia Medvedeva, 18, and Alina Zagitova, 15, face off in training almost daily, and that constant motivation pushed them to take a risk that is stirring heated discussion in the ...
Russian athletes went one-two in the women's single figure skating competition. Alina Zagitova took gold and Evgenia Medvedeva the silver. Bradie Tennell was the top U.S. finisher in ninth.
As Valieva placed fourth and left in tears, she received a message of support from 2018 silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva. "I am so happy that this hell is over for you," Medvedeva posted on ...
Alina Zagitova, left, and Evgenia Medvedeva will compete for figure skating gold Friday in the free skate in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. (Bernat ...