Olympics Articles Tagged Skating

While the games of the Summer Olympics can be traced back 3,000 years, Winter Olympics history covers only a fraction of that time. While it was sometimes considered inferior to...

Checking online is how to find figure skates for sale, sometimes at a price you may not be able to get from a local store. Have your foot measured before...

A lot of new skaters want to know how to clean their speed ice skates. It is a pretty simple process if you have had some experience in well, you...

Learning how to do a two-footed spin in figure skating is easy and fun.  The two-footed spin is one of the easiest figure skating elements to master, and is the...

Here is a quick intro to the 1968 ladies figure skating Winter Olympics. The 1968 Winter Olympics were held in Grenoble, France from February 5 to February 18, 1968. The...

The 2002 Winter Olympic ice skating judging controversy would forever change the sport of competitive ice skating. The story begins with Russian pair skaters named Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze....

For the avid figure skater, figure skating equipment essentials have become common sense, but for the beginning or casual figure skater, it can be helpful to have select items to...

If you always wanted to learn how to do figure skate jumps like an Olympic skater, this article can get you started. These are the basic seven figure skate jumps....

When learning how to pack a figure skate bag, its hard to know what the essentials are. Having a bag that is bigger than the recreational skate bag is a...

By keeping some basic guidelines in mind, you can learn how to make figure skating outfits. By making figure skating outfits yourself, you can save much of the cost associated...

The Olympic Hockey rosters 2010 included some of the best players currently in the National Hockey League as well as the top hockey stars from around the globe.  While each...

People have been ice skating for centuries, but modern figure skating history began in the mid-1800s. An Englishman, Robert Jones, produced the first known account with “A Treatise on Skating”...

Before listing 10 ice speed skating tips to help you improve your form, the most important thing to mention is safety. Remember, you are dealing with sharp blades which can...

It’s not difficult to name the 5 best U.S. speed skating Olympic gold medalists. Though speed skating doesn’t get much attention in the United States, every four years the athletes...

Need to know how to clean ice figure skates? Cleaning the ice skates that you use for figure skating is actually a very simple and quick task. Although cleaning your...

The 5 best Olympic figure skating champions come from around the world and have represented their countries in more than one Olympic game. These athletes have pioneered and re-invented the world...

The 10 most famous Winter Olympic athletes found a balance of greatness both in sport and away from it. 1. Eric Heiden.  The American speed skater became the only Winter Olympian...