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Fabrice Guy
Fabrice Guy (born 1968, Pontarlier) is a French nordic combined skier, 1992 Albertville Olympic champion, the first French Olympic medalist in the sport, with six World Cup wins and 1998 Nagano team bronze.
Falko Zandstra
Falko Zandstra (De Gespierde Spijker), Dutch speed skater born 1971 in Heerenveen; 1992 Olympic 5,000 m silver, 1994 1,500 m bronze, 1993 world and European allround champion, small- and big-combination world record holder.
Fan Kexin
Fan Kexin (范可新, born 1993) is a Chinese short track speed skater who won gold in the mixed team relay at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and five 500 m world titles.
Fanny Smith
Fanny Smith, born 1992, Swiss ski cross racer; three Olympic medals (silver 2026, bronze 2018 and 2022), three world titles, four Crystal Globes, 37 World Cup wins.
Far East Cup
The Far East Cup is the FIS alpine skiing Continental Cup for East Asia, run since 1994/95, whose winners earn guaranteed World Cup starts the next season.
Federico Pellegrino
Federico Pellegrino, born 1990 in Aosta, Italy, is an Italian cross-country skiing sprint specialist who won the 2017 world title and Olympic sprint silvers in 2018 and 2022.
Felix Endrich
Felix Endrich (1921–1953), Swiss bobsledder; Olympic two-man gold with Fritz Waller at St. Moritz 1948, world two-man champion 1949 and 1953; killed in a four-man trial run at Garmisch-Partenkirchen days after his 1953 title.
Felix Gottwald
Felix Gottwald, Austrian Nordic combined skier born 1976 in Zell am See, SC Saalfelden; seven Olympic medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze), 11 World Championship medals, 23 World Cup wins; shares the record as most decorated Nordic combined Olympian with Eric Frenzel.
Felix Loch
Felix Loch, German luger (Rennrodler) born 1989 in Sonneberg, three-time Olympic champion in men's singles (Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014) and team relay, youngest ever luge World Champion.
Femke Kok
Femke Kok, Dutch speed skater (born 2000), 500m specialist, world record holder 36.09s, 2026 Olympic 500m champion and 1000m silver medalist, three-time world 500m champion, first woman to sweep all four races at a World Sprint Championships.
Figure skating
Figure skating: judged ice sport with singles, pairs, ice dance, and synchronized disciplines, governed by the ISU since 1892, scored under the International Judging System (TES plus PCS) introduced after the 2002 scandal.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City: pairs gold first went 5-4 to Russia's Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze over Canada's Salé and Pelletier; a French-judge vote-trading scandal led to duplicate gold medals and the Code of Points judging system.
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
Pair skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the pairs figure skating event won by Russia's Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze over Canada's Salé and Pelletier in a 5-4 vote, later annulled into dual gold medals after French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne's vote-trading fraud, prompting the ISU's International Judging System.
Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics: five events including the debut team event won by Russia; Adelina Sotnikova, 17, beat Yuna Kim 224.59 to 219.11 for ladies' gold, sparking a judging controversy and South Korean ISU complaint.
Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, held 9–25 February 2018 at Gangneung Ice Arena: five events (men's, ladies, pairs, ice dance, team), ISU judging system with nine-judge trimmed mean, Zagitova's record 82.92 short program, and Chen's five quadruple jumps.
Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: five events at Capital Indoor Stadium, ROC won six medals, and the Kamila Valieva trimetazidine doping case canceled team medals and led to 2024 re-ranking.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina 2026), February 6–19 at the Milano Ice Skating Arena: five events, USA won team gold and Alysa Liu women's gold, Mikhail Shaydorov men's gold, Japan pairs, France ice dance.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Ice dance
Ice dance at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, held February 9 and 11, 2026. Gold: Fournier Beaudry/Cizeron (France, 225.82); silver Chock/Bates (USA, 224.39); bronze Gilles/Poirier (Canada).
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's singles
Men's singles figure skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 10 and 13 February 2026 with 29 skaters; Ilia Malinin led the short program at 108.16 but finished eighth after popping his quad axel.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Pair skating
Pair skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 15-16 February at Milano Ice Skating Arena; Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan's first Olympic pairs gold with 231.24, ahead of Georgia's Metelkina/Berulava and Germany's Hase/Volodin.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Team event
The mixed-gender figure skating team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina ran February 6–8, 2026; the U.S. won gold, Japan took silver, and Italy won bronze.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's singles
Women's singles figure skating at Milano Cortina 2026, held 17 and 19 February at Milano Ice Skating Arena; 29 skaters from 21 NOCs. Alysa Liu (USA) won gold, Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai (Japan) silver and bronze.
Figure skating at the Olympic Games
Figure skating at the Olympic Games: five medal events (men's and women's singles, pairs, ice dance, team event) under the ISU Judging System; debuted at the 1908 London Summer Olympics, permanent since Chamonix 1924.
Figure skating jumps
Figure skating jumps: the six ISU-recognized jumps (toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip, Lutz, Axel), split into edge and toe pick-assisted takeoffs, with quad base values 9.5 to 12.5 points and the Axel as the only forward-takeoff jump.
Figure skating lifts
Figure skating lifts: partner-carrying elements in pair skating and ice dance. Pair lifts use five grip-based groups (armpit, waist, hand-to-hip, hand-to-hand, lasso) with base values 1.40-7.00; ice dance lifts are non-overhead, classified as stationary, curve, straight line, or rotational.
Figure skating spins
Figure skating spins: rotational elements in upright, camel, and sit positions, scored under the ISU Code of Points with base values and GOE; sit spin credited to Jackson Haines.
Figure skating spirals
Figure skating spirals: a glide on one foot with the free leg extended behind above hip level, derived from ballet's arabesque. Also called spiral sequences; distinguished from spins by gliding without rotation; defined in ISU regulations and showcased by Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen.
FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships
FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships, since 2025 the FIL Alpine Luge European Championships: continental natural-track luge titles first held 1970 in Kapfenberg; 31st edition Laas 2026; Italy leads the medal table.
FIL Junior and Youth Luge Championships
The FIL Junior World Championships are the International Luge Federation's title events for junior lugers on artificial tracks, first held in Lake Placid in 1982.
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships, now Alpine Luge World Championships: world titles in natural track luge since 1979 at Inzing; 25th edition 2025 in Kühtai, Austria; never an Olympic event.