The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop ...

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, competes in the women’s team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022.

What's the difference between ice skating jumps? From a toe loop to a lutz to the axel. Now make it a double, triple, quad and you have it mastered.

In edge jumps, the skater essentially just uses knee bend to launch," Hacker told The Wire. The takeaway here is that you can start to tell the jumps apart by looking how the skater is taking off.

Figure skating is not all about the jumps. But even the most diehard skaters and fans who will tune into the figure skating programs during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will tell you that it’s ...

Early last month, NBC aired the Progressive Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular, an annual show featuring Olympic athletes from the past and present. This year it was held in a skating arena in ...

Figure skating jumps are impressive, but fast—the differences can be tough to see. Olympian Jason Brown demonstrates in slow motion the six main jumps figure skaters pack into routines, and ...

Figure skating jumps are identified by the edge the skater takes off from, and whether or not they use a toe-pick assist (aka, the small ridges at the front of the skate) for takeoff.

The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop ...

Let's make no bones about it: the headlining sport in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. No other sport comes close to the drama, the athletes, the subplots, and politics that figure skating has.