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BEIJING, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The 53-year-old Capital Gymnasium in Beijing is ready to hold the Asian Figure Skating Open and the Beijing leg of the ISU Short Tr

GLENWOOD, Ill. -- "I've been skating since I was six years old. My mom used to come during practice and let me come with her [and] I would see other skaters practicing as well. So one day my mom put me on skates and ever since then I've been skating," Darius Sanders said. The 18-year-old Glenwood native practices his skating skills most days after he's done with his freshman classes at Moraine Valley College. "What I really like about skating is the performance and the music. While you're skating, you have this feeling of being free out there, so it's like it's like kind of a therapy," he sai...

Count down with me, winter olympics start in all of 25 days, and you know what the medal podium looks like, it has a place for the top three finishers. and that's usually the way the trials go, the top three get to go. aggassu finished third in the trials but she is not headed to sochi, and the reason has stirred up some olympic sized controversy in the skating world. >> reporter: after falling twice in the u.s. figure skating championships in boston on saturday, ashley wagner thought her chances of making the sochi games were over. she tweeted after her performance, i am so sorry i let you a ...