A: The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics just opened in Italy last weekend. Nineteen-year-old Li Yu-hsiang has successfully qualified for the event, becoming Taiwan’s second figure skater to compete in the Winter Games.
B: I love to watch figure skating. Who are the most notable male figure skaters this time?
A: Two-time world champion Ilia Malinin of the US, Yuma Kagiyama of Japan and Adam Siao Him Fa of France are the top contenders.
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B: And Malinin is the only skater to land a fully rotated “quadruple Axel” (4A) jump during an international competition. How about the female figure skaters?
A: The front-runners include last year’s world champion Alysa Liu of the US, Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto, as well as Russia’s Adeliya Petrosian competing as an “Individual Neutral Athlete.”
A: 2026年米蘭─柯蒂納冬奧上週末在義大利開幕，19歲小將李宇翔是台灣史上，第2位滑進冬奧的花式滑冰選手唷！
B: 我最愛看花式滑冰了，男單選手有哪些亮點？
A: 花滑世錦賽2屆金牌、美國的伊利亞馬里寧，以及日本的鍵山優真、法國的蕭傳文都很強。
B: 馬里寧可是唯一在國際比賽完成足圈「4周半跳」（4A）的「四周跳之神」。那女單選手呢？
A: 花滑世錦賽去年金牌、美國的劉美賢，以及日本的?本花織、獲准以「個人中立」身分參賽的俄羅斯小冰后阿德蕾亞佩卓西恩也都很強。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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