“Let’s get this party started!” That was Ilia Malinin’s message to the ticketholders on the Hub Vision screen before he took the ice at TD Garden on Thursday afternoon. The men’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships had been underway for five and a half hours and more than three dozen competitors already had skated.

BOSTON — Alysa Liu is the first U.S. women’s singles figure skater to win a world title in 19 years, capping a comeback season after a two-year retirement. Liu, 19, had the top short program and free skate scores for 222.97 total points. She prevailed over three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan by 4.99. Mone Chiba of Japan earned bronze.

Alysa Liu becomes the first U.S. woman to win a world figure skating title since 2006, and two other Americans finish in the top five in a promising showing.

Max Naumov reflects on his final moments with his parents, and their legacy, two months after their plane crashed over Washington, D.C.

The new star of figure skating, Ilia Malinin, put on his typically dazzling routine Thursday at the world championships in Boston.

The United States qualified for two pairs spots in the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games and has an opportunity to go to Beijing in September to qualify a third spot.

Ilia Malinin claimed a second consecutive world figure skating title, landing six quadruple jumps in a jaw-dropping peformance.

The moment was wildly celebrated in the skating world, especially because it came in Montreal, where Stellato-Dudek had moved after returning to skating years after quitting the s