Beautiful music, smooth spinning, amazing jumping, figure skating, as an ice sport that combines technical beauty, musical beauty, and dance beauty, is known as "ice ballet". It requires high strength, speed, coordination, and flexibility from athletes. So today's Winter Sports Encyclopedia will take you to learn about figure skating together.

Figure skating originated in 18th century England and quickly spread to European and American countries such as Germany, the United States, and Canada. Figure skating is a winter sport that once entered the Summer Olympics and made its debut on the Olympic stage as early as the 1908 London Olympics. Figure skating was included as a competition event in the first Winter Olympics in 1924.

The figure skating events of the 14th National Winter Games include open group men's singles skating, women's singles skating, pairs skating, ice dance, team competitions, and youth group men's singles skating, women's singles skating, pairs skating, and ice dance.

Among them, pairs skating and ice dancing are both competed by a combination of one male and one female athlete, so they are often confused. As a mixed event, double skating tests the coordination and coordination of movements between male and female athletes. It not only requires synchronized single skating movements, but also requires the completion of unique double skating movements such as throwing, jumping, and lifting. Ice dance does not require the high difficulty of jumping, nor can it be lifted over the shoulder. It emphasizes dance steps, creativity, and musical interpretation. The two contestants maintain an international standard dance style at close range while performing complex and diverse footwork that closely follows the rhythm of the music.

On January 19th, the 14th National Winter Games figure skating (youth group) competition ended at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Ice Sports Training Center in the Hailar region. The Beijing team won all the gold medals in the men's singles, women's singles, and ice dance events.

According to the schedule, the figure skating (open group) competition of the 14th National Winter Games will be held from February 21st to February 26th. Interested spectators must not miss it!

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