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Executive producer Jane Rosenthal explains how the Nine for IX series is a gripping showcase of what it means to have the will and hunger to prevail over the limitations of the body and objections of a still-sexist society.

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.

Bobsledder Nick Cunningham, ice skater Agnes Zawadzki, hockey player Karen Thatcher, speedskater Pat Meek and skeleton racer Seun Adebiyi share their journey to Sochi, one year out.

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.

Boxing will continue to spiral down into irrelevance unless it cleans up its judging the way figure skating did.

Jeremy Abbott will get to enjoy being the king of U.S. men's figure skating for a few months after winning his third U.S. title this weekend, but the marquee may soon begin to get very crowded.

John Coughlin and Caydee Denney rallied to capture the pairs event at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday with a nearly flawless skate.

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.

Ashley Wagner won her first U.S. championship Saturday night with a mostly clean, lovely skate to the soundtrack from the movie "Black Swan."

Meryl Davis and Charlie White are the U.S. national champions in ice dance for the fourth straight year.

As the men's short program was being contested in the U.S. Championships on Friday night, Johnny Weir was in town to get reacquainted with the sport he walked away from in 2010.

Siblings Alex and Maia Shibutani were looking to spice up their ice dancing routine before U.S. nationals. So, what better place to turn than "Dancing with the Stars"?

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

The lack of an elite pairs team on the world stage has been a sore spot for American figure skating. But could the problem begin to be remedied this weekend 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.