On a recent afternoon tinged by the honeyed summer sun, skateboards clattered as kids carved through a timeworn skate bowl in central Vancouver. Nearby, Steven and Christina Suarez watched with pride.

In poker, three of a kind always beats two pairs even if it's a pair of aces and two kings. In ice hockey, things aren't quite so clear cut.

For most of Lucia Nanda’s life, she has been spending as much time on the ice as her mother could get for her. She started skating when she was 5 years old, starting out mostly with singles-style ...

These skating legends have been gliding through life together for nearly 60 years.

The couple were working at a training camp in Connecticut when the Boston club reached out to them. Evgenia Shishkova, left, and Vadim Naumov were figure skating coaches at The Skating Club of Boston.

Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday ...

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the ...

Figure skater Maxim Naumov boarded a flight out of Wichita just days before his parents were killed when their American Airlines plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in ...