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The team event is the newest Olympic figure skating event, first contested in the 2014 Games. It combines the four Olympic figure skating disciplines (men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance) into a single event; gold is awarded to the team that earns the most placement points.
In London, figure skating was presented in four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's special figures, and mixed pairs. The special figures contest was won by Russian Nikolai Panin, who gave his country its first ever Olympic gold medal. [4] He remains the event's sole winner, as it was subsequently dropped from the program.
The medal ceremony for the team event, where the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) won gold, originally scheduled for 8 February, was delayed over what International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams described as a situation that required "legal consultation" with the International Skating Union. [56]
Nine U.S. figure skaters received gold medals at the Paris Olympics, 2½ years after their team event at the Beijing Games. Japan got silver and Russia bronze.
Michael Reaves/Getty Images Team USA’s 2022 Olympic figure skating team finally received their gold medals during the 2024 Paris Games. During a special ceremony on Wednesday, August 7, Evan ...
U.S. Olympic figure skating team that competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing received its gold medals at the 2024 Paris Games following controversy.
This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold.) It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
Members from the 2022 U.S. Olympic figure skating team are being awarded historic gold medals nearly two years after the Beijing Olympics thanks to a Russian doping scandal.