With the addition of team figure skating to the Olympic manifest, I wasn't surprised to hear from my grumpy old pal the Sports Curmudgeon. "Hey, Frank,"… Double Axels And Death Spirals — Yes, Figure ...

Earlier in the Games, we defined what a twizzle is. With the pairs short program starting today, we look at two other oddly named figure skating moves: the twist and the death spiral.

The Olympic figure skating competition consists of five medal events: men’s singles, women’s singles, pairs, ... and a move unironically called a "death spiral." Ice dance is judged more stringently ...

Figure Skating Glossary. Axel: A forward-facing jump invented by Norwegian Axel Paulson in 1882. The Axel is the only jump in which skaters take off from a forward outside edge. The skater rotates one ...

For all the fans who love watching figure skating during the Olympics, but don’t know much more than falling = bad news, here’s a handy A-Z of the terms you’re likely hear to hear figure ...

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships have returned to the Twin Cities. We're here to help you figure out the lutzes from the loops and the spirals from twizzles.

Rising American skating star Ilia Malinin landed the first quadruple axel ever in competition Wednesday during his first event of the season at Lake Placid, N.Y.

Double Axels And Death Spirals — Yes, Figure Skating Is A Sport. It's not easy to qualify what makes a sport a sport. Commentator Frank Deford says his broadest, ...