The prize, Artur Dmitriev has been told, will be in his making history. Dmitriev can become the first man to win Olympic pairs figure-skating medals with two different women. That is not why this ...

Artur Dmitriev during the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. (John David Mercer/USA TODAY Sports) BEIJING—The idea of a quintuple jump in figure skating—five rotations in the air—has ...

It happened 30 seconds into the long program of a Russian-turned-American named Artur Dmitriev Jr. at the U.S. championships in January. Half the people in the crowd didn’t believe their eyes.

The only good thing about the pairs competition at the World Figure Skating Championships was the return to prominence of a couple including Artur Dmitriev, the powerful Russian with the emotive ...

NAGANO, Japan — A skating ballerina named Oksana Kazakova stood up to her man yesterday.She matched Artur Dmitriev move for move in a 4 1/2 -minute duet on ice. Whatever he did, she did better.

The last time Soviets or Russians didn't win the pairs title was in 1960, when Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul finished with the gold medal in Squaw Valley.

Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342. Their son Maxim Naumov ...

It is the longest unbroken streak in Olympic history. For ten straight Olympics, from 1964 in Innsbruck through 1998 in Nagano, Russians have captured the figure skating pairs.

Sochi Olympics: Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia are favorites to win gold in pairs figure skating. Russia was blanked at 2010 Games.

He had always been such a puzzle, too many pieces, not enough places to make them fit.By last fall, Artur Dmitriev was smoking a pack a day. He was overweight and pasty. He wanted to stop. He ...

ALBERTVILLE, France — Later, they would tell you how strange it all was, this business about the flag and the anthem. She wanted to see the Soviet hammer and sickle and hear the familiar song… ...