Heavy US favorite falls twice in the free skate Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov claims shock title For nearly two years, Ilia Malinin has made men’s figure skating feel predictable in the most spectacular of ways. On Friday night on the southern outskirts of Milan, the Olympic Games reminded the sport, and...
Matt Weston slides to skeleton gold as Team GB finally win medal at Winter Olympics
Briton triumphs by nearly a second in Milano Cortina First British man to win individual winter gold since 1980 And on the seventh day, Great Britain finally won their first medal of these Olympics. At nine o’clock on Friday night Matt Weston, the man his teammates call “Captain 110%”, became...
Weatherwatch: The surprisingly complex science of ice skating
Pressure, frictional heating and a disordered layer of molecules on top of the ice make skating possible Ice skating is counterintuitive: why should a narrow blade make it easier to slide over the ice? The science is surprisingly complex, but unscientific people worked out the practical application a long time...