The Winter Olympics are rolling around, and everyone is excited to root for their favorite athletes and teams. Pairs figure skating consists of partners:
Armenia – Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakkhmanin
Australia – Anatasiia Golubeva and Heektor Giotopoulos Moore
Canada – Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps
China – Sui Wenjing and Han Cong
France – Camille Kovalev and Paavel Kovalev
Georgia – Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava
Germany – Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel
Great Britain – Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby
Hungary – Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko
Italy – Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii, Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini
Japan – Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, Yuna Nagaoka and Sumitada Moriguchi
Netherlands – Daria Danilova and Michel Tsiba
Poland – Ioulia Chtchetinina and Michał Woźniak
USA – Emily Chan and Spencer Howe, and Ellie Kam and Daniel O’Shea
The teams to keep an eye on this year are Japan, Germany, Italy, and Georgia, who are the top medal contenders. The 2026 Olympic Champions were Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara from Japan. You can find the Pairs Figure Skating Olympics on NBC and USA Network, and stream live on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms! It began airing on February 6 and ended on February 16 with a free skate.
