Elite Figure Skating Competitions

The 2012 World Figure Skating Championships took place in Nice, France from March 26 through April 1, 2012. This article summarizes the competition.

The 2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships took place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from February 7 to February 12, 2012. This article highlights some memories of the event.

This article gives information about some of the skaters who participated in the 2007 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships which took place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from February 7 through 10, 2007.

This article shares some of the highlights from the 2012 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships that took place in San Jose, California in late January, 2012.

Most figure skating fans agree that the 2011 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships was one of the most exciting events ever. One of the reasons was that new skaters that figure skating fans never heard of appeared and skated well.

The 2010 Synchronized World Figure Skating Championships took place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from April 7 through April 10, 2010. About.com's Guide to Figure Skating, Jo Ann Schneider Farris, attended all of the competition. This article summarizes her experience.

Alina Adams was a figure skating researcher for network television. Her experience gave her a unique look inside the elite competitive figure skating world.

Skate America is an elite international figure skating competition which is part of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating series.

Some people say that what is going with pair skating in the USA is just not working. Something has to change. What can be done to improve pair skating in the United States?

The 2010 Synchronized World Figure Skating Championships took place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from April 7 through April 10, 2010. Here, About.com readers can share their own photos and memories from the event.

Universal Sports television and the Universal Sports website show Olympic and other world-class figure skating programs year round. Live and on-demand coverage is available. The Universal Sports website provides fans with figure skating news and information year round.

The 2010 World Figure Skating Championships will take place in Torino, Italy in March of 2010. 2010 also marks the 100th anniversary of the World Figure Skating Championships. This is the tentative schedule of the world figure skating events.

The top finishers at "Nationals 2010" became the members of the 2010 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team.

Ice skating fans don't always understand how figure skating jumps are scored. They can see a skater do a beautiful program with what seems like clean triple jumps. They think their favorite skater has won. Then the scores appear. Triples were only scored as doubles. Why? Should triple jumps be downgraded to doubles?

Due to the new judging system for figure skating, there is no way anyone can really predict which U.S. figure skaters will qualify for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, but certain figure skaters may qualify. Which figure skaters do you think will qualify for the 2010 Olympic US Figure Skating Team?

The 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships was held in Los Angeles, California, USA from March 22 through March 29, 2009. What memories do you have from the event?

The 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships was held in Los Angeles, California, USA from March 22 through March 29, 2009. About.com's Figure Skating Guide, JO ANN Schneider Farris, and her family attended. In this article, she shares some of her experiences and memories from the event.

This gallery includes photos by Kathie Fry, of SkateLog.com, from the 2009 World Figure Skating Championsiips in Los Angeles. Fry was About.com's Guide to Inline Skating for over five years.

The 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships was held in Los Angeles from March 23 through March 29, 2009. About.com's Figure Skating Guide, JO ANN Schneider Farris, attended the event with her family. This photo gallery includes many of the memories of the competition.

Eva Gottlieb is a ice skating fan. This photo gallery includes photos from her trip to Los Angeles to watch the 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships.

IceNetwork.com is a subsidiary of U.S. Figure Skating and has exclusive rights to U.S. Figure Skating's events. It is a web-based online subscription service that provides live and on-demand coverage of figure skating competitions and events. This article reviews the IceNetwork service.

Until recently, if a figure skater accepted money for teaching or performing, he or she was considered a professional ice skater. What is the difference between an amateur and professional figure skater?

The U.S. National Figure Skating Championships is a yearly ice skating competition. The event is called "Nationals" by the skating community.

The World Figure Skating Championships is the most prestigious of all figure skating competitions. The only event that is considered more important is the Olympic figure skating event.

The Four Continents Championships first began in 1999. For many years, there has been a European Figure Skating Championship, so it was decided by the International Skating Union to hold a similar event for all other countries outside of Europe.

The Grand Prix of Figure Skating is a series of international ice skating competitions.

In the past, the United States National Figure Skating Championships that is held just before an Olympic year, helps to give those involved in figure skating some idea about who may be competing in the Olympics, but instead, in 2009, the competition left everyone wondering what will happen in 2010.

After competing at the 2009 AT&T US Figure Skating Championships, the best figure skaters in the United States earned spots on the US Figure Skating World Team.

The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is a yearly figure skating competition sponsored by the Internationl Skating Union (ISU). The best young figure skaters in the world compete for the title of World Junior Champion.

The Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating is an elite ice skating competition series where top junior level skaters from more than thirty countries compete.

There is a new judging system for figure skating, called the ISU Judging System. A short explanation of this new system of scoring is summarized in this article.

Cécile Däniker Rüsch is an international figure skating coach and choreographer. In 2008, she gave About.com permission to publish her views on the state of the sport of figure skating.

Skating With Celebrities was a 2006 prime-time television show that partnered six professional figure skaters with six famous personalities. Paired with professional skaters, celebrities trained and competed in a live television skating competition.

What is the figure skating competition season? What time of year does the season for competitive figure skating begin and when does the season end?

This article was published on March 14, 1975 in the Colorado College Catalyst. It is written by About.com's Figure Skating Guide, Jo Ann Schneider Farris. She attended Colorado College at the time, and was asked by the editor of the college's newspaper to review the event since the 1975 World Figure Skating Championship took place in Colorado...

This link includes links to many different sites that discuss Olympic figure skating history.