During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, a French figure skating judge was caught vote-swapping in the pairs competition, and two years later, the International Skating Union changed its 6.0 judging system.

The International Skating Union issued a defense of a controversial Olympic judge after Madison Chock and Evan Bates fell short of the gold medal by a narrow margin to the French duo in ice dance.

Were the United States of America duo Evan Bates and Madison Chock robbed of gold in the ice dance competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano

The International Skating Union (ISU) issued a pre-emptive statement on Monday after controversial Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze was present at practice alongside neutral athlete Adeliia Petrosian.

Saturday's exhibition gala that closes out figure skating competition at the 2026 Olympics will feature an appearance from the "Quad God" himself.

U.S. Figure Skating does not intend to appeal the results of the highly controversial Olympic ice dance competition, effectively cementing a silver medal for Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

The term ‘figure’ in the sport’s name is not unique to English, as several languages, from Irish to Polish and Russian, also translate the name literally as ‘figure skating.’ In contrast, Japanese and Korean adopt ‘figure’ as a phonetic loan word, preserving the English sound.