Olympic figure skating is often seems to take athletes to the very edge of perfection, but even the greatest stumble and fall. How do they pull themselves together again on the biggest world stage? Toughness,

Estonian figure skater Aleksandr Selevko opened his short program brilliantly at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics Tuesday and is through to the free skate stage.

On the 11th, short track analyst Kwak Yoon-gy posted a video on his YouTube channel of a conversation he had with Stoodard, whom he happened to meet in front of a hamburger shop. Kwak Yoon-gy asked, “How are you feeling after the fall?

With winter here, i have found myself cooling off a lot of parents who have questions about their children’s safety when ice skating — both indoors and outdoors. Almost 20,000 children are being seen for skating injuries on a yearly basis,

For all the fans who love watching figure skating during the Winter Olympics but don’t know much more than falling = bad news, here’s a handy A-Z of the terms you’re likely hear to hear figure skating commentators use during the competition. You might not be a natural on the ice, but you can make discussing the skating second nature!