America’s Ice Queens: Then and Now

For years and years they practice and train in obscurity and then become the country’s darlings when they twirl and lutz their way into Americans’ hearts during the Winter Olympics.  Female figure skaters who make it to the Olympics are part of a small sorority and after the Games are over, some, like Kristi Yamaguchi and Dorothy Hamill, continue to bask in the spotlight. Others, like Tonya Harding, fade away, not always as gracefully as they skate.  Click through to see America’s most famous female figure skaters in all their Olympic glory and where they are now.