Hold off on that retirement party for Irina Slutskaya. The two-time world champion figure skater said...Russian figure skater and a two-time world champion Irina Slutskaya denied a report in her home country that she has retired...

...about her inconsistency with a huge victory in the Grand Prix Final on Saturday, beating reigning world champion Irina Slutskaya. Not even Michelle Kwan could defeat Slutskaya at the Grand Prix Final in the last three years, and Cohen did it...

...whose gold in women's figure skating Thursday night gave Japan its first medal of these games. For Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya, gold was theirs to grab but got away. Falls and mistakes pulled Cohen down to silver and left Slutskaya with a...

...going for a gold medal Thursday - along with the top two figure skating leaders, American Sasha Cohen and Russian Irina Slutskaya. The vast majority of Thursday's NBC prime-time package will go to the figure skating, where Cohen's teenage...

...change in 1996 on medical advice. Asada won the Grand Prix final at the same arena last week, beating world champion Irina Slutskaya. Asada was just third after the short program but jumped to second Sunday after the free skating, which Suguri won...

...believed she would be in that position - or even entered - after her third-place finish behind Hughes and Russia's Irina Slutskaya at the Salt Lake City Games. Then Kwan was second to Slutskaya at last year's worlds. But here she is, looking...

...women's free skate Feb. 21 and soared from fourth to first. The 16-year-old from Great Neck, N.Y., beat Irina Slutskaya of Russia and six-time U.S. champion Michelle Kwan. Hughes also did the toughest technical program, becoming...

...won silver in 1988. Rochette can do the math. She knows Olympic champ Shizuka Arakawa of Japan and bronze winner Irina Slutskaya of Russia aren't in Calgary. "I know five minus two equals three," she said with a laugh when asked about earning...

...time for happiness. I am not thinking about anything else," she said. "We still have time for the worlds." Irina Slutskaya beat Kwan the last five times they met in major competitions in 2001-02, but the Russian has not skated competitively...

...average at .509 and is slugging .809 for the season. Figure Skating Slutskaya drops out of world event Russia's Irina Slutskaya will not defend her title at next week's World Figure Skating Championships, withdrawing because of her mother's...