Olympic Events
Figure Skating
Pacific Coliseum
An American, Jackson Haines, is considered to be the founding father of modern figure skating in the 1860s - established not in his home country, but in Vienna, Austria, where audiences loved his carefully choreographed ballet-influenced style.
Figure skating was an Olympic sport before there was an Olympic Winter Games. Figure skating first appeared at the London 1908 Olympic Summer Games with events for pairs and singles (indoor ice rinks could be kept cold even in hot weather). Ice dancing joined the Olympic Winter Games in 1976, when the Games were held in Innsbruck, Austria. The compulsory figures competition was dropped from the figure skating program prior to the Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games.
Competition Events
Ladies'
Men's
Ice Dance
Pairs
