If you were inspired by the figure skating artistry at the 2026 Winter Olympics, you may want to keep your eye out for two local skaters.

At 20, Alysa Liu had become a skater for this age and for the ages. Philip Hersh, who has covered figure skating at the last ...

As the Bay Area celebrates the Olympian’s homecoming, young skaters at Oakland’s Ice Center dream of following her path.

Gold medal figure skater Alysia Liu talks about her intense early training, quitting the sport for two years, and what she learned along the way.

Bay Area tops St. Croix 5-4 in the WIAA state girls hockey title game. It's the second straight title for the Ice Bears and third in four years.

How did figure skaters – and hockey players, too – look so effortlessly graceful as they swooped over the ice? I felt like a stumbling, bumbling ox. And I’ve been ice skating for most of my life!

The free-spirited figure skater spoke to our dance critic about her approach to performing, the role of music and more.

When Alysa Liu realized she had won the women’s figure skating final, she ran to one of the Japanese skaters she just outperformed. She and Ami Nakai, who was in the lead heading into Thursday’s ...

Figure skating has become a sport that awards athletes for achieving speed, spins and jumps – and the ability to land with grace on a steel blade 4 mm (0.16-inch) wide on a notoriously slippery ...

Editor's note: Follow Olympics figure skating live results and updates from the 2026 Winter Games. MILAN — For most of the 21st century, U.S. pairs figure skating has been an afterthought. While the ...

*** Sacramento couple used to laugh at people who followed figure skating like groupies. Now they are those people. Michael Butler has wanted to take his husband Eric Ostean to an Olympics ever since ...