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hifrom2 t1_j69ojne wrote

Reply to comment by onduty in Levito wins first U.S. women's figure skating title by IslandChillin

it’s the national championships so it’s her first US nationals win

there hasn’t been a world champion from the US women’s since 2006 but the american alysa liu did win bronze at the 2022 world championships last year

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onduty t1_j6aei66 wrote

My perception of figure skating is through the Olympic lense and probably distorted by the 90’s. I thought US was dominant but I must be wrong. Has Asia/Russia been the force to be reckoned with?

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hifrom2 t1_j6bq15r wrote

the US has had a slump in women’s figure skating ever since Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen retired in the mid 00s. Before that the US was quite dominant ever since the 90s at least. But following Michelle Kwan/Sasha Cohen’s retirement, there was a long and legendary rivalry between a south korean and a japanese skater (mao asada and yuna kim) for a decade and then came the russian dominance, which recently if you recall has come under question bc one of their stars tested positive for doping at the 2022 olympics. This has seriously called all of the past results of recent russian skaters into question (and honestly it’s very likely that they’ve all been doping). Had it not been for the systemic russian cheating more American skaters probably would’ve been winning medals but probably not sweeping championships, as Japanese women are generally more competitive.

Anyway I digress, but the US has still had very great men’s and dance fields this whole time. Nathan Chen was very very dominant and American ice dance has many very high quality top teams, probably the most out of any country this era

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