The second event in the Pairs competition for Figure Skating at the 2026 Milan Olympics takes place on Monday, Feb. 16.

With the team competition starting first, the physical and emotional cost can ripple right on through into the individual ones.

Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany took a sizable lead in the Olympic pairs figure skating short program in Milano-Cortina, topping a tightly contested field ahead of Monday’s free skate.

Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian says she is feeling "excellent" after a practice session at the Olympics with her controversial coach, seemingly dispelling injury concerns.

Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek made history at the Winter Olympics when she made her figure skating debut at 42 years old.

Especially because anything can happen in figure skating, which was proven by Team USA men's star Ilia Malinin's disaster in the men’s figure skating event. This caused him to finish in 8th place despite being the favorite to win gold. Regardless of whether she wins a medal, 18-year-old Isabeau Levito is clearly enjoying her time in Italy.

U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin was spotted in the crowd watching the pairs' short programs, two days after his brutal outing in the men's free skate.

Tara Lipinski broke a long-standing record in 1998.

Alysa Liu hasn't missed an Olympic cycle. But since the 2022 Games in Beijing, the Team USA figure skating star has traveled quite the career journey. After that competition, in which Liu finished seventh,

Ilia Malinin missed out on a medal in a stunning and dramatic men's figure skating final at the Winter Olympics today. The 21-year-old American fell twice in his final free skate to score 156.33 and finish eighth as Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold.

MILAN (AP) — The trio of U.S. women targeting Olympic figure skating gold Tuesday night are not the dainty ice princesses of yesteryear. There's Amber Glenn, a 26-year-old powerhouse and LGBTQ+ rights activist whose career took off just when most figure skaters are contemplating retirement.

One of these pairs has already made history, in that Kam and O'Shea have a nearly 14-year age difference, which makes them the team with the largest age gap for any U.S. pair to have competed at worlds since at least 1990, according to NBC News research.