World figure skating champion Alysa Liu plans to reincorporate the triple Axel into her programs for the upcoming Olympic season. In an interview with retired NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason, Liu was ...

Figure skater Mirai Nagasu came to this year’s Olympics to make history. On Monday at the PyeongChang Games, Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympics. Only two ...

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Grinning ear to ear from start to finish, 17-year-old Ami Nakai of Japan finished atop the women’s short program Tuesday. After nailing her signature triple axel jump, Nakai set a personal best to ...

In women's figure skating, which started on Tuesday, one of the toughest is the triple axel. One thing in particular makes it different from the other triple jumps. Very few women have it as part of ...

In late May, Trusova, 16, scored another entry into the Guinness Book of World Records as the first-ever female figure skater to land a quad flip jump MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s two-time World ...

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 ...

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 ...