Crash Course: Mao Asada is one of the most decorated figure skaters in the world and a national hero in Japan. She has been skating competitively since the 2002-03 season and plans to retire after the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese figure skater Mao Asada will take a season off from competitive skating and says there is a 50 percent chance she will return to the sport. Speaking at a news conference Monday, ...

Almost as soon as Japanese figure skater Mao Asada finished her powerful free skate in Thursday's long program, she began to cry. Full, body-heaving sobs. Even though she knew she wasn't in the ...

TOKYO — The head of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic organizing committee has criticized Japanese figure skater Mao Asada’s performance in the women’s short program at the Sochi Olympics. The two-time world ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) Mao Asada is still trying triple axels. More important at the Sochi Olympics, perhaps, is the renewed focus on the rest of her jumps. The Japanese star now does just one triple axel ...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Mao Asada of Japan topped the free skate on Saturday to capture her third world figure skating title. Asada, who held a slim 1.42-point lead after the short program, ...

Reigning Olympic silver medalist and figure skating superstar Mao Asada currently sits in 16th place following Wednesday's ladies' short program at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi. Asada fell ...

Japan’s Mao Asada shows her gold medal during the awards ceremony of the ladies free skating competition at the world figure skating championships in Saitama on March 29, 2014. Japan’s Mao Asada won ...

Mao Asada of Japan reacts after completing her routine in the women’s free skate figure skating finals at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Sochi, ...

Mao Asada of Japan competes in the women's free skate figure skating finals at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Bernat ...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Mao Asada of Japan topped the free skate on Saturday to capture her third world figure skating title. Asada, who held a slim 1.42-point lead after the short program, ...