Winter olympic games 2010 figure skating

Today: Long divorced from the husband at the center of the controversy, Harding remarried in for a third time, and has a son.

She's always going to be known as the woman who was somehow involved in the whack heard 'round the world. Said Harding in the film: "Just having my life with my husband and my son, that's what I need, and want, and have. Olympic moment: One of America's sweethearts, she won gold in , after two world and one U. But when daughter Emma wanted to skate, Mom did enlist her former pairs partner Rudy Galindo, the U.

I see it as a different experience for her, but I'm fine with it. Yamaguchi's own passion now: advocating child literacy through her Always Dream Foundation, and via the books she's written through the years.

Olympic moment: The "Battle of the Carmens " ended with Thomas taking bronze in behind East Germany's gold-winning Katarina Witt, after both skated to music from Bizet's opera. The win made Thomas the first Black athlete ever to earn a medal at the Winter Olympics. Today: "Everyone said it was impossible to go to college and win a world championship. I was just too stupid to think it was, so I did," Thomas said years later, after graduating from Northwestern and becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

Today: "I don't skate, I don't teach, I don't commentate. I don't really have anything to do with skating anymore, which is kind of nice," said Sumners, who married in and now works in interior design after stints in home building and running retail shops. But I miss the performing. Olympic moments: The Winter Olympics in Calgary turned into the Battle of the Brians — Boitano versus Orser, two exceptional figure skaters competing for the gold medal.

In the end, Boitano's triple jumps and axels edged out Orser's, and he landed in first. Today: Though the champ still performs in exhibitions and teaches skating to disadvantaged youth, he is also focused on another creative pursuit — cooking!

In , he came out as gay. I've never been ashamed of who I was. Olympic moments: The striking pair won silver in ice dancing in and gold in We're going to be as diligent as we can be to do our best and represent Team USA with honor. Skip to content. Beijing Winter Olympics. Download our local news and weather app for iOS or Android — and choose the alerts you want. Beijing Olympics Oct 27, US Curling 1 hour ago.

Figure skater Jason Brown talks about the creative ways he stayed in shape during lockdown. Back to Article. The winner is the competitor who obtains the highest marks. A short programme of 2min 50sec maximum 8 required elements, free choice of music , followed by a free programme of 4min 30sec. The winners are the pair who obtain the highest marks. Imposed dance, original dance 2min 30sec and free dance 4min.

The three sets of marks are combined to determine the winners. Marks from nine judges chosen at random for each event awards each skater two scores, one for technical achievement, the other for artistic impression.

Anna Jurkiewicz. Patrick Chan Vaughn Chipeur. Cynthia Phaneuf Joannie Rochette. Florent Amodio Brian Joubert. Elene Gedevanishvili. Carolina Kostner. Abzal Rakimgaliev Denis Ten. Artem Borodulin Evgeni Plushenko. Alena Leonova Ksenia Makarova.