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US figure skaters set to get team gold medals at Paris Olympics after ruling in 2022 doping case
PARIS (AP) — The U.S. figure skating team was formally confirmed as gold medalists from the 2022 Beijing Olympics by a sports court ruling Thursday, opening the way for the team to get its medals at the Paris Summer Games. “We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible...
Canadian Olympic figure skaters get court date for medals appeal in Valieva doping case
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final appeal hearing to decide medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be heard days before the Paris Olympics open. A hearing on July 22 for eight Canadian skaters seeking to get team event...
Frank Carroll, figure skating coach who led Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek to stardom, dies at 85
Longtime figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over the course of a 60-year career helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games, including Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, died Sunday. He was 85. U.S. Figure Skating, with whom Carroll worked for decades, said in a statement...
Sjoukje Dijkstra, the first Dutch athlete to win a gold medal at Winter Olympics, dies at 82
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Sjoukje Dijkstra, the figure skater who in 1964 became the first Dutch athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, has died at the age of 82. Dijkstra's daughter, Katja Kossmayer Dijkstra, said in a Facebook post that her mother “passed away...
