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World champion Evan Lysacek gave the United States their first Olympic men’s figure skating title in 22 years with a risk-free performance on Thursday.Yevgeny Plushenko of Russia had to settle for silver with Daisuke Takahashi giving Japan their first ever Olympic men’s podium finish taking bronze after the free skate final.

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Olympics Menâ—-s Figure skating won by an American Figure skater, Evan Lysacek won the gold medal in Olympics Menâ—-s Figure skating and become the first American to won the Olympics Menâ—-s Figure skating after 22 years.

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News Media

How to make skating a sport – Daily Comet
His decision to forego the fur puts off a weird moment at which the seemingly isolated worlds of figure skating and animal cruelty could have collided. …

Figure skater Nobunari Oda dragged down by his bootlaces – Washington Post
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Nobunari Oda's hopes of winning a medal in the Olympic men's figure skating competition came undone when he suffered …

Slideshow: Shani Davis wins gold in Olympic speed skating (photos) – Examiner.com
Vancouver Olympics gold medal winner Shani Davis, a member of USA's speed skating team, trains solo in his hometown of Chicago rather than the USOC facility …

Winter Olympics 2010: Vladimir Putin weighs into figure skating debate – Telegraph.co.uk
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has added his voice to furious backlash in Russia after Yevgeny Plushenko failed to defend his men's figure skating Olympic …

Evan Lysacek drives himself hard in pursuit of figure skating gold – Los Angeles Times
Sasha Cohen, the 2006 Olympic figure skating silver medalist, has been Lysacek's friend for 13 years. She once spent two months as his guest while taking …

After 1st gold, Canada’s Nesbitt readies for 1500 – Washington Post
The Americans placed two skaters in the top 10. Four-time Olympian Jennifer Rodriguez finished seventh and Heather Richardson was ninth. …

Skating icon Eric Heiden still part of Team USA – CNN
Eric Heiden powers his way toward a gold medal in the men's 1000 meter speed skating event at the 1980 Winter Games. …

Abbott finishes ninth in men’s figure skating – Snowmass Sun Online News
While Abbott, who now resides in Detroit, fell attempting a quadruple toe and stumbled on his triple flip during the free skate portion at Vancouver's …

TV ratings: Olympics skate to another win Thursday – Zap2it.com (blog)
Evan Lysacek's gold medal in men's figure skating at the Olympics carried NBC to another ratings win Thursday, driving "Grey's Anatomy" to …

Olympic Men S Figure Skating: Latest News Updates

Olympic contenders: Men’s figure skating
Media machine Patrick Chan, who finished second at worlds in 2009, is Canada’s best hope for a medal. Currently ranked ninth in the world, Chan was stunned when his coach quit just last month..

Olympic preview: Pairs figure skating
Canadian pairs champions Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison want a spot on the Olympic podium, but they’ll have to outskate German world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, not to mention a pair of standout Chinese pairs skaters..

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Morning world! Off to mad chef with mamma! our house is gonna look so awesome! Still pissed about figure skating
@ApoloOhno Have you ever thought about trying figure skating– You can skate, and you can dance so put them 2gether and you would be great!
Tiger’s televised series of man hugs: still more interesting than figure skating
I’m going ice skating and pizza hut on ma friends b-day!!!
@afrobella there are many adult groups for ice skating and it is AMAZING exercise. I need to get back into it.
Thank God "Men’s" Figure Skating at the Winter Olympics is over. The boys can go back to West Hollywood. #Curling can rise again. #p2 #tcot
The first question in my non-skating related conference call right now. "Did everyone watch figure skating last night–"
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@adivianna Hi! The full vid will be up soon on AO anyway. Did you enjoy the figure skating yesterday–
@scotta_yoga I’m afraid I already tweeted a Highlander joke about couples skating decapitation. #himsa_girl
the Olympics last night was amazing! Congrats to Australia 4 the win in snowboarding! Germany 4 Skiing! USA for figure skating!Congrats!!!!
This is why I don’t really like figure skating. Too much emphasis on judges and everyone biches about them. http://bit.ly/dvd2vk
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Jeremy Abbott: Figure skater from Detroit Skating Club finished ninth overall after earning 149.56 points in the men’s free program.
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Evan Lysacek upsets Evgeni Plushenko to capture figure skating gold medal – ESPN
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