Pairs figure skating competition began on Feb. 9, 2002, dominated the early headlines.

The Sporting News gives you a full explanation of Olympic figure skating and its storied past.

Ilia Malinin comes from a family of Olympic legends ...

Before Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir were broadcasters for NBC at the Winter Olympics, they both had impressive figure skating careers.

This kind of surprise ending happens now and then in figure skating, when pairs or singles not even in the last group leapfrog others to win gold.