Looking ahead to the 2026 Winter Olympics, all skaters are eager to make an early impression.
What a difference a year makes. In the world of skating, this is the start of a new Olympic quadrennium; many top competitors retired at the end of last season, their hopes either fulfilled or dashed. Russia swept the gold at the 2022 Europeans and won six Olympic medals in Beijing despite ainvolving Kamila Valieva, the European women’s champion.
Looking ahead to the 2026 Winter Olympics, all skaters are eager to make an early impression, but none more so than the Italians. At yesterday’s pairs’ free skate at the European Championships in Espoo, Finland, Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii and Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini gave Italy its first medals in pairs since 2013—when Ghilardi and Ambrosini’s coach, Ondrej Hotárek, and his skating partner Stefania Berton won bronze.
Italy won another medal this afternoon, when Matteo Rizzo, in second place after the short program, maintained his position in the free skate. Frenchmen Adam Siao Him Fa and Kevin Aymoz remained in first and fourth, respectively, but Lukas Britschgi of Switzerland won bronze as Deniss Vasiljevs of Latvia moved from third to fifth place.
At 2022 Worlds, Loena Hendrickx, so promising for so long, rose in the standings to win the silver . She came to Espoo as a favorite for gold but now sits in second place, almost two points behind Anastasia Gubanova of Georgia. Kimmy Repond of Switzerland is now in third. Most of the 2022 U.S. Nationals medalists retired or returned to school at the end of the season. Now, the only defending champions in San Jose for the 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships are ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates, in first after last night’s rhythm dance.
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