skate

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Earlier, US star Ilia Malinin won a third straight men's gold as he bounced back from missing out on an Olympic medal last month when he fell twice in the free skate.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

His aim, he added, had simply been to get through the free skate “in one piece.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

Forever it will live as instant happiness, a bad-mood buster: Alysa Liu’s climactic, wildly charismatic free skate at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

She’d choose her choreography and costumes, have control over her meals, skate when she wanted.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

I’d never seen anyone who could skate as fast, stop as quickly, turn and swivel like he was planting a cleat in the grass, not stabbing the ice with his skate.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely