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

And Judge Quraishi said: If you’re letting this guy skate, you don’t get to pretend you care about victims’ rights.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 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

“Yeah, we skate hard until the security guards run us off,” Garrett was saying, “and then we do the parking lots until we get chased out of there, too. It’s a blast.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen