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 ...

She’s been training this dangerous jump for years. And finally, under the bask of Olympic lights, Mirai Nagasu did something no other American woman has ever done at the Olympics: She landed a triple ...

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 ...

For Olympic figure skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes during the Winter games. Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a ...