No, Figure Skating is a sport in the Winter Olympics only.
The first figure skating competition at the Olympics was at the 1908 Games in London.
Ice skating was first included in the Olympics in 1908. The US Figure skating association (aka USFSA) was formed in 1921.
Ice hockey and figure skating.Ice hockey was first competed in 1920 and figure skating in 1908. The first Winter Olympics were in 1924.
Some sports included in the Summer Olympics are swimming, gymnastics, and golf. Winter Olympic sports include luge, curling, hockey, and figure skating.
Prior to the creation of the Winter Olympics in 1924, figure skating and ice hockey were competed at the Summer Games. Once the Winter Games came into being, these sports were switched from Summer to Winter.
Figure skating was an event in the first Winter Olympics in 1924. (Prior to that, it was actually part of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1912.)
No, there weren't figure skating in the 2012 Olympics.
Figure skating and ice hockey. Figure skating and ice hockey debuted in the Olympics before the creation of the Winter Games. Figure skating's first Olympics was 1908 and ice hockey's was 1920. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924.
Summer Olympics: Swimming, Boxing, Volleyball, Gymnastics (Artistic and Rhythmic) Winter Olympics: Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Luge, Ski Jumping
Figure skating's first appearance in the Olympics was the 1908 Summer Games in London.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) makes the determination of which sports are to be included in the Olympics. The International Skating Union (ISU) petitioned to have figure skating included as a winter sport and it was, in time for the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924. For decades figure skating was the most popular Winter Olympic sport by far, but since 2010, TV audiences and streaming viewership of freestyle skiing and snowboarding have begun to outpace figure skating.