Olympics2/14/18Feb 14 20182Olympics2/14/18OlympicsThe Most Controversial Voice In Figure Skating Can't Stop Saying What's On His MindLucy Madison23Something odd was happening at Skate America and Dave Lease was all over it.
Feb 20 201462/20/14Was The Figure Skating Fix In? It Probably Didn't Matter.Lucy Madison173Russia's Adelina Sotnikova delivered a shocking upset Thursday, when she–not reigning world and Olympic champion…
Feb 20 201452/20/14Why Does NBC's Primetime Figure Skating Broadcast Suck?Lucy Madison98For the past few weeks, I've been having a problem. My job, such as it is, has been to watch the Olympic figure…
Feb 19 2014Save2/19/14Once Again, It's Yuna Kim Vs. The WorldLucy Madison15After weeks of hype surrounding 15-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya's gold medal Sochi prospects, the Russian rising star…
Feb 19 2014212/19/14The Coach Who Doesn't Care: How One Man Turns Skaters Into ChampionsLucy Madison64Gracie Gold was having a bad night. The 18-year-old figure skater was about a minute and a half into her free skate…
Feb 18 201412/18/14Three Reasons 15-Year-Old Yulia Lipnitskaya Could Shock The WorldLucy Madison24If you'd asked the figure skating hivemind before the Olympics to bet on the results of the ladies competition, 90…
Feb 18 201442/18/14Why Does Every Olympian Skate To Les Misérables?Lucy Madison101There are still two days left of Olympic figure skating, and I have officially maxed out my lifetime tolerance for…
Feb 17 201432/17/14Fixed Or Not, The World's Best Ice Dancers Won GoldLucy Madison67After four years of buildup, and at least a week of talk about possibly corrupt judges, U.S. ice dancing stars Meryl…
Feb 14 2014Save2/14/14Men's Figure Skating Was A DisasterLucy Madison28From start to finish, from Evgeny Plushenko bowing out moments before his short program to the eventual gold…
Feb 12 201412/12/14Olympic Figure Skating Pairs: Are They Humping?Lucy Madison43The pairs figure skaters performed their final Olympic programs today in Sochi and, as pretty much everyone…
Feb 9 201432/9/14Russia Is Dominant On The Ice; Can Team USA Get It Together?Lucy Madison27After weeks of almost exclusively embarrassing reports out of Sochi, Russia finally got some good news today, when…
Jan 17 2014281/17/14Confessions Of A Tonya Harding ApologistLucy Madison128I was 5 years old when I fell in love with Tonya Harding. The year was 1988, and I had just taken up figure skating.…