Beijing's National Indoor Stadium has become an icy playground for the world's top skaters as the 2026 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships kicked off this week! Athletes from over 30 countries and regions are competing in what's being called the 'warm-up to the Winter Olympics' ❄️🔥
This year's event features jaw-dropping quadruple jumps from Japanese teen sensation Yuki Tanaka and a highly anticipated debut of the Chinese mainland's new pairs team, the 'Flying Dragons' 🐉. Fans are already flooding social media with clips of the opening ceremony's drone light show that mapped out a giant skating figure above the stadium ✨
With temperatures outside hitting -10°C, the real heat is coming from the ice where Canadian defending champion Liam Chen told us: 'The energy here is next-level – you can feel China's passion for winter sports growing every year' 🇨🇳🇨🇦
