So perhaps it should come as no surprise that many of the figure skating and ice dancing pairs at the 2018 Winter Olympics are couples both on and off the ice — after all, partners that skate together, stay together.
Pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as compared with independent Single Skating.
illegal maneuvers include: spinning movements in which the man swings the lady around in the air while holding her hand or foot - obviously the headbanger. twist-like or rotational movements during which the lady is turned over with her skating foot leaving the ice.
Why is backflip ice skating illegal?
Even though the move that caused the leak was not Kubickas backflip, that may have been part of the reason that the backflip eventually was banned by the ISU. The official reason for the ban was because the landing is made on two feet instead of one and is thus not a real skating jump.