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Figure skating: Malinin, Liu win Grand Prix Final as Japan fills podiums

Ilia Malinin rewrote his own free skate record with a formidable performance to claim his third straight figure skating Grand ...

Figure skating - World champions Miura and Kihara clinch ISU Grand Prix pairs title

Two-time world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the pairs title at the International Skating Union Grand Prix ...

Yuto Horigome leads Japanese skateboarders to world acclaim

Japan, which arguably boasts the best skateboarders in the world, shows them off to home crowds this week during a World ...
NBC Olympics

Women’s Short Program: Liu in 2nd after sharp skate as Chiba takes control

Alysa Liu is in 2nd and Amber Glenn is in 6th after the short program on Day 2 at the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Final in ...
NBC Olympics

Japanese teenagers Yoshizawa, Akama top women’s skateboard street

For the second straight Olympics, Japan led the women's skateboard street field. Teenagers Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama won ...
Yahoo! Sports

Japan's Mone Chiba wins Skate Canada, holding off Olympic hopeful Isabeau Levito of the U.S.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Mone Chiba of Japan held off American standout Isabeau Levito with a near-flawless free skate to win Skate Canada on Saturday night, while Deanna Stellato-Dudek and ...

Alysa Liu, with Olympics on deck, wins another major figure skating title

In a tight competition, the American won with an overall score of 222.49, ahead of two Japanese skaters on home ice in the ...
ABC News

Japan's Mone Chiba wins Skate Canada, holding off Olympic hopeful Isabeau Levito of the U.S.

Mone Chiba of Japan has won Skate Canada with a near-flawless free skate, holding off American Isabeau Levito SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Mone Chiba of Japan held off American standout Isabeau Levito ...