Kunstskøjtning

Japan's Olympic pairs figure skating champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara revealed on Tuesday that they decided to retire immediately after winning gold at February's Milan Cortina Winter Games, vowing to raise the profile of pairs skating in Japan.

29. marts 2026 Rapporteret af AI

Kaori Sakamoto won her fourth ISU Figure Skating World Championships title and announced her retirement. Mone Chiba took silver, while Belgium's Nina Pinzarrone earned bronze.

ARD-kunstskøjtningskommentatoren Daniel Weiss har undskyldt for en kontroversiel bemærkning om forholdstatus for den georgiske skøjteløber Anastasia Gubanova. Kommentaren under det olympiske kortprogram traktede hård kritik. Weiss beskrev sit udsagn som «absolut upassende».

19. februar 2026 Rapporteret af AI

ARD-kommentator for kunstskøjtning Daniel Weiss har undskyldt for en kontroversiel bemærkning om forholdstatus for den georgiske kunstskøjteløber Anastasia Gubanova. Den 57-årige kaldte sin kommentar «absolut upassende» og fortrød den kritik, den vakte. Atleten havde opnået personlig rekord i det olympiske kortprogram.

At the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin took the lead with 80.01 points in the pairs short program. Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, two-time world champions, dropped to fifth after a rare mistake.

15. februar 2026 Rapporteret af AI

The women's singles figure skating competition begins Tuesday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, with South Korea's Shin Ji-a and Lee Hae-in set to compete. The 17-year-old Shin Ji-a follows her Olympic team event debut with her first individual appearance. The 20-year-old Lee Hae-in, a 2023 world silver medalist, makes her Olympic debut.