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Just two weeks after snapping his leg, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is back on his board. He’s not shredding yet, but a major session is in his near-term plans.

A former Olympic figure skater has been arrested on charges that he ripped off a program to help struggling small businesses harmed by the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Tuesday.

A former USA National Team figure skater has filed a lawsuit alleging a coach sexually assaulted him on numerous occasions, including at a U.S. Figure Skating event in San Diego.

Former Olympian Ashley Wagner says she was sexually assaulted by another figure skater in 2008 when she was 17. The three-time national champion wrote in USA Today on Thursday that John Coughlin climbed into her bed after a party at a skating camp and began kissing and groping her. Coughlin was 22 at the time and took his life in January at 33.

After Alysa Liu accomplished a feat last week that no U.S. women’s figure skater had ever achieved, she gave away her gold medal. Liu, 13, became the youngest women’s U.S. champion in history on Friday and then gave the winning medal to her father, Arthur, in thanks for all he has done for her. “He just helps me so much...

Olympic figure skating medalist Denis Ten was killed on Thursday, and prosecutors in Kazakhstan said they were treating the case as murder. Ten was stabbed after a dispute with people who allegedly tried to steal a mirror from his car in his home city of Almaty, Kazakh news agencies reported. Doctors in Almaty say he died in hospital there. He...

“Dancing with the Stars” cast members Jenna Johnson and Valentin Chmerkovskiy are engaged. Johnson on Thursday tweeted photos of her 32-year-old fiance on his knee popping the question in Venice. The next photo shows the 24-year-old kissing Chmerkovskiy.

“Dancing with the Stars” cast members Jenna Johnson and Valentin Chmerkovskiy are engaged. Johnson on Thursday tweeted photos of her 32-year-old fiance on his knee popping the question in Venice. The next photo shows the 24-year-old kissing Chmerkovskiy.

Adam Rippon, who became the first openly gay figure skater to make the U.S. Olympics team, was honored on the steps of New York City hall.

“Dancing With the Stars: Athletes” revealed its line-up of sports stars that will compete in the reality hit’s first-ever all-athlete season when it returns on Monday, April 30. The 10 contestants and their professional partners appeared on “Good Morning America” Friday, with fans learning who they’ll be watching battle it out in the ballroom in season 26.

Director Sam Greisman finally met his Olympic crush, Adam Rippon, at a Human Rights Campaign gala in Los Angeles last night, all thanks to the sly help of mom Sally Field. During the Olympic Games, Greisman was not holding back his thoughts on Twitter about Rippon as he continuously tweeted his support and made his crush for the 28-year-old clear.

A celebrated figure-skating coach has been suspended nearly 20 years after male skaters first leveled sexual misconduct allegations against him, NBC News reported. Richard Callaghan, who coached Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski, was suspended by the U.S. Figure Skating Committee and the watchdog group U.S. Center for SafeSport amid a new investigation. Callaghan did not immediately respond to a request...

Luis Kjeld of the Netherlands may have won the gold medal in the men’s 1000m speedskating competition, but the real highlight of the event was a tutu-wearing streaker that graced the ice. Professional streaker Mark Roberts, who has previously crashed other Olympics and sporting events around the world, dashed onto the ice after the men’s 1000km race and quickly disrobed....

A German figure skater’s free skate will be remembered, but not for being an exceptional Olympic performance. Nicole Schott, who finished 18th in the event in Pyeongchang, chose part of the score from the 1993 Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List” as her skating soundtrack, and this had some Twitter users expressing shock and disapproval online. “German figure skater performing to music...

Just 26 days older than a 15-year-old Tara Lipinski in 1998, Alina Zagitova’s back-loaded, point-gobbling programs and seemingly unbreakable teenage nerve earned the Olympic Athletes from Russia team its first gold medal of the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Karen Chen was the last U.S. figure skater to make her PyeongChang debut (and her Olympic debut for that matter). A mistake on her opening jump in the short program left her in 10th place going into the free program. Two days later, her free skate also had technical mistakes, and she finished 11th overall. While Team OAR won its...

An American judge for Adam Rippon’s free skate gave him a score that was 15 percent above the mean for the panel of nine judges. Earlier in the short program, the judge also scored American skater Nathan Chen more favorably than all but one judge on the panel, NBC News reported. But none of this sets her apart from the...

After the Dutch speedskating team botched its men’s team pursuit race and had to settle for Olympic bronze, things might have gotten even worse.

Yevgenia Medvedeva is going for gold on Thursday. She’ll get the chance to rock out to her favorite band in person a few nights later.