Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara have announced their retirement from figure skating, two months after winning the Olympic gold medal with a record-breaking skate.

Small margins are deciding gold medals at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Figure skater Nikita Volodin is a medal contender for Germany with his partner Minerva Hase in pairs figure skating.

U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu led after the short program on the opening night of the world championships on Wednesday.

Amber Glenn of the United States has continued her breakout season in figure skating by taking the lead in the short program at the Grand Prix Final as world champion Kaori Sakamoto fell.