Figure Skating

The Russia figure skating team still stands to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case. The International Skating Union has published an updated result. The United States has moved into the gold medal position and Japan has been upgraded to silver from bronze. But the demoted Russians get bronze by one point ahead of Canada. The ISU's amended standings from the Beijing competition strips Valieva's maximum 10 points from each of her two events but does not add a point to the other teams below her.

Ilia Malinin landed the quad axel, a jump only he has ever landed in competition, while winning his second consecutive U.S. figure skating championship. Malinin finished with 294.35 points, well below the world-leading score of 314.66 points he had at the Grand Prix Final in December. But it was well ahead of Jason Brown in second with 264.50 points, while Camden Pulkinen soared from fifth after his short program into the bronze-medal position with 262.33 points.

Amber Glenn won her first U.S. figure skating title on Friday night when defending champion Isabeau Levito fell three times during her own free skate. That dropped the 16-year-old all the way to third place and allowed Glenn to win the gold medal after mistakes in her own program. Glenn finished with a score of 210.46, while Josephine Lee jumped into second place and Levito was third. In the men's competition, the "Quad God" Ilia Malinin scored 108.57 points to take the biggest lead after a short program under the current scoring system in nationals history. Max Naumov was a distant second with 89.72 points and Jason Brown was third.

Loena Hendrickx has taken the lead at the European figure skating championships in the women’s short program as fellow Belgian skater Nina Pinzarrone follows close behind.