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Katarina Witt may have been one of East Germany's most famous athletes at the height of the Cold War, but "The Diplomat" shows how the figure skater ended up being a beneficiary and victim of the socialist regime.

Ashley Wagner, Jeremy Abbott and Meryl Davis and Charlie White are back to defend their titles at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and Gracie Gold is just one of the newcomers looking to make a splash in Omaha, Neb., this week.

Gracie Gold made the jump to the senior circuit this season and had worked hard to show her skating is about more than her prodigious jumping ability.

Rachael Flatt landed 11 jumps, including four triples in her free skate Saturday night at HP Pavilion, capping a difficult season with her best performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Stanford freshman Rachael Flatt tumbled to ninth place after the short program at the U.S. figure skating championships.

It's been a year of setbacks for 12-year-old Jin Baseman, a rising star in figure skating, but her passion helps her take it all in stride.

With or without those Olympic gold medals, Michelle Kwan's body of work makes her upcoming induction into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame a foregone conclusion.

Reflecting the changes in her life and her skating, Rachel Flatt will unveil a more mature look at next week's nationals, where she hopes her artistry will shine.

In our latest Rachael Flatt profile, the U.S. champ talks about her freshman year at Stanford and her vacation plans. On tap: skating shows and a lot of practice.

In the third installment of espnW's series following Olympian and U.S. skating champion Rachael Flatt, she discovers her best-laid plans need some adjusting.

On paper, the 6-foot-2 John Coughlin and 5-0 Caydee Denney look like a mismatch as a pairs skating team. But it all comes together on the ice.

In Part II of our series following skating champion and Stanford student Rachael Flatt, she hopes to score well at Skate Canada -- and get her homework done.

Skate America kicks off the 2011-12 season, bringing out some of the biggest stars -- except for Evan Lysacek.

In the first of espnW's series following the Olympic-hopeful figure skater, Rachael Flatt works to balance her training with college life at Stanford.

The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.

espnW looks back at 2010, which saw Joannie Rochette win an Olympic figure skating medal days after a devastating loss; Maryland's lacrosse team complete an impossible comeback; and Serena Williams dominate Wimbledon to earn her 13th career major title.