Saturday night, figure skating's stars and medal winners gathered for one last time in Milan, bidding farewell to the Games in what's become a beloved tradition: the Olympic Gala.

The 2026 World Figure Skating Championships promise to be a celebration of figure skating, hot on the heels of the Winter Olympics which brought the highs and lows of competition to a massive worldwide audience.

All of figure skating's biggest stars took the ice one more time at the 2026 Winter Olympics, showing off at the exhibition gala that stunned.

The term ‘figure’ in the sport’s name is not unique to English, as several languages, from Irish to Polish and Russian, also translate the name literally as ‘figure skating.’ In contrast, Japanese and Korean adopt ‘figure’ as a phonetic loan word, preserving the English sound.

Adeliia Petrosian’s fall in the 2026 Olympic women's singles competition didn't stop a judge from awarding gold-medal marks. An inside look at the data and the enduring judging bias in figure skating.

Mikhail Shaidorov, the gold medal figure skater from Kazakhstan, tells of how he surprised even himself by ending up on the Olympic podium.

Alysa Liu’s skating comeback came with new boundaries and a fresh mindset ahead of her 2026 Olympic return and rise back to the top.