Vern Taylor arrived at the Riverside Skating Club in Windsor, Ontario, on Sept. 15 to do what he has done at that rink for the last three decades: coach figure skaters. But this day was different.

In women's figure skating, which started on Tuesday, one of the toughest is the triple axel. One thing in particular makes it different from the other triple jumps. Very few women have it as part of ...

The two-time Olympic champion’s goal in Beijing was to conquer skating’s hardest jump Yuzuru Hanyu came to Beijing hoping to pioneer the most difficult jump ever attempted in figure skating: the ...