During the figure skating team competition on Sunday night, 24-year-old Mirai Nagasu became the first American in history to land a triple axel jump at the Olympics. She also became just the second ...

Yuzuru Hanyu attempted a quad axel jump at the Beijing Olympics on Feb. 10, exactly 140 years after Paulsen’s inaugural jump.

Even casual fans of figure skating have likely heard of the triple axel. And now, thanks to U.S. men’s champion Ilia Malinin, you’ll be hearing a lot about the quadruple axel, or quad axel, too. What ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics is fully underway in Italy, and it's once again time for figure skating to take center stage. One of the biggest stars on this year's U.S. team is Ilia Malinin, nicknamed the ...

She’s been training this dangerous jump for years. And finally, under the bask of Olympic lights, Mirai Nagasu did something no other American woman has ever done at the Olympics: She landed a triple ...

With Yuzuru Hanyu seeking to become the first to successfully land a quadruple axel in figure skating competition at the ...