A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills.

Guests at the annual fashion extravaganza known as the Met Gala embraced this year's theme of “Fashion is art” with outfits and costumes showing off artistic references.

Guests ascended the famous steps of the Metropolitan Museum and entered a lobby transformed to resemble an Italian garden, with a huge moon hanging from the ceiling.

Kaori Sakamoto bids farewell to figure skating with a fourth world championship title before retirement as one of the most decorated skaters in decades.

Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.

Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu have turned the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics into a debate about identity and loyalty for Chinese Americans.

Olympic champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world figure skating championships, and the U.S. team is replacing her with Sarah Everhardt for the competition beginning March 24 in Prague.

With 116 medal events over 19 days in five different clusters, what a spectacle the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics were.

Women are powering Team USA’s medal surge at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and they are setting records along the way.

Alysa Liu won Olympic gold in women’s figure skating by skating loose, smiling and doing it her own way.

On a night of American comebacks at the Milan Cortina Games, Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years.

It’s day thirteen of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and the lineup is packed with must-see events. Here’s the Olympic schedule for Thursday, Feb. 19, on Local 4:

Alysa Liu won Olympic gold for the U.S. in women’s figure skating, ending a 24-year drought.

Alysa Liu is left to carry the hopes of the United States into the women’s free skate at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Japan has upstaged the United States in the short program of the women's figure skating competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Madonna has surprised U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn with a good luck video before Glenn skates to “Like a Prayer” at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The three U.S. women who will be going for Olympic gold when their figure skating competition begins Tuesday night are role models for a whole new generation.

Nathan Chen's phone buzzed with a special text after he won Olympic gold in figure skating.

Handle with care.

Amber Glenn wins Olympic gold in the team event but faces backlash over her political and LGBTQ+ comments.

Ilia Malinin helps the U.S. defend its team figure skating gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates set the tone for the U.S. Figure Skating team at the Milan Cortina Olympics with a high-energy rhythm dance to Lenny Kravitz music.

Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate faces a major challenge just days before the Milano Cortina Olympics.

Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik led an American sweep in the rhythm portion of the ice dance competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.

Ilia Malinin and the ice dance duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates will lead a strong U.S. Figure Skating team at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Olympians can teach us to redefine what it means to be successful.

Amber Glenn wins her third consecutive U.S. Figure Skating title with a stunning free skate performance.

Two-time defending champion Amber Glenn has set the record for a women’s short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Yuma Kagiyama has upstaged world champion Ilia Malinin of the United States to lead the men’s short program at the figure skating Grand Prix Final in Nagoya.

A new app designed by a pair of computer scientists aims to revolutionize the way figure skating is judged.

World figure skating champion Alysa Liu is changing her short program for this season.

Alex and Maia Shibutani are making a comeback with an eye on competing for the U.S. figure skating team at next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics.

The Americans had arguably the best world championships in their long and distinguished figure skating history, and now they are pointing toward next season and the Olympics.

Ilia Malinin defended his world title with free skate that earned a standing ovation inside TD Garden on Saturday night, capping a memorable home championships for the Americans.

Alysa Liu became the first American women's figure skating world champion in nearly two decades Friday night, dethroning three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant free skate that earned her a standing ovation inside TD Garden.

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

Amber Glenn defended her title as the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, landing a massive triple axel early in the program and then watching in stressful anticipation as Alysa Liu came up just short of surpassing her.

Alysa Liu returned after two years away from figure skating to take the lead after the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

U.S. Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu — a former political refugee — were targeted in a spying operation ahead of the Beijing Olympics that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese government, the elder Liu says.

Some figure skaters are hoping an Olympic doping scandal that is fueling a push to raise the minimum age of competitors will also focus attention on what they see as the sport’s most pressing issue: body image, body shaming and disordered eating.

The U.S. figure skaters are advancing to the free skate but struggled to break through in the short program on Tuesday night at the Beijing Olympics.

Kamila Valieva, the ROC skater who tested positive for Trimetazidine on Dec. 25, leads the event by almost two points.

Thirty women's skaters from across the world began Olympic competition with the short programs.

Nathan Chen is in good hands with his coach Rafael Arutunian. But he credited the expertise of Italian skater Massimo Scali, the former coach of teammate Alysa Liu, for adding soul to his Elton John free skate. The results are undeniable.

Ralph Lauren will once again be outfitting Team USA for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Figure skating schedule for the 2022 Winter Olympics: when, where and how to watch or stream every event via NBC, Peacock, USA Network and NBCOlympics.com.

Figure skating's 2022 Winter Olympic team was announced Saturday afternoon.

Results for the pairs and women's short programs at the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Team USA's national champion figure skater Alysa Liu seeks to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships will help determine who goes to the upcoming Winter Olympics.

A look at Nathan Chen, Alysa Liu, Auston Matthews, Maame Biney and other notable athletes expected to compete for Team USA at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Bradie Tennell performs during the women's free skate at the U.S. (AP Photo/John Locher)LAS VEGAS – Bradie Tennell is back on top of American figure skating. They sure missed an edge-of-your seat women's free skate. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier have a six-point lead over Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson headed into the pairs free skate, and the free dance wraps up the evening session. “We're really confident in our free dance,” Hubbell said after watching Chock and Bates perform Friday, “and it's not over till it's over.