Figure Skating: Turin Olympic champion Shizuka Arakawa elected to Hall of Fame

Shizuka Arakawa, Japan's first Olympic champion in figure skating, was among the latest group elected to the sport's Hall of Fame, nominating chair Lawrence Mondschein said Tuesday.Arakawa, who won the women's singles title at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, is the third Japanese to enter the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. She joins Midori Ito, a silver medalist at the 1992 Albertville Games, and Nobuo Sato, a former competitive skater and coach.Also named as Class of 2018 inductees were the 1992 men's singles Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko (Ukraine, Unified Team, Soviet Union), the 1…READ FULL ARTICLE