COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP)—Caroline Zhang, 2007 junior world champion and bronze medalist at this year’s Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, has ended her five-year partnership with coach Li Mingzhu.

Zhang announced Tuesday that she will now train with Tammy Gambill, saying she looks forward to continuing to grow and mature as an athlete while working with Gambill.

EDMONTON '€” The love affair is over, at least off the ice.

Olympic gold medallists in pairs figure skating, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, have decided to end their marriage. They will, however, continue to skate together in exhibitions and shows.

NEW YORK (AP)—Ice dancing once was the ugly stepchild of figure skating, so scorned that there was discussion of dropping it from the Olympics.

Now, particularly after the sensational showings by the Canadians and Americans at the Vancouver Games, skating fans are clamoring for more.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White are ready to give it to them.

TOKYO (AP)—Olympic bronze medalist Joannie Rochette of Canada will return to the ice in Japan this weekend with a new program paying tribute to her late mother.

Rochette is in Tokyo to take part in a Stars on Ice tour along with world champions Daisuke Takahashi and Mao Asada of Japan, and compatriot Kurt Browning.

Rochette, who won her bronze in Vancouver four days after her 55-year-old mother, Therese, died of a heart attack, will be skating to the Evanescence song “My Immortal.”

MOSCOW (AP)—Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has banned two top sports officials from preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The decision stems from the nation’s poor performance at the Vancouver Games.

Medvedev said Thursday that figure skating president Valentin Piseyev and cross country skiing head Vladimir Loginov have been removed from the government council on Olympic preparations. Both officials said this week they will resign.

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP)—Michelle Kwan is adding commencement speaker and honorary doctor to her impressive resume.

The nine-time U.S. champion and winner of two Olympic medals will be given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Southern Vermont College on May 8, when she addresses the graduating class.

Kwan is attending graduate school for international affairs at Tufts University and has served as a diplomatic envoy for the U.S. government.

TURIN, Italy (AP)—Olympic bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi dazzled the judges with huge jumps and speedy steps on Wednesday to take the lead after the short program at the world figure skating championships.

Canada’s Patrick Chan was second with a clean, well-polished tango, followed by France’s Brian Joubert, who rebounded from a disappointing Vancouver Olympics with an impressive skate that started with a quad-triple combination.

As much fun as Johnny Weir is having off the ice, he’s not sure he’s ready to call it quits.

Weir took a pass on this week’s World Figure Skating Championships and is doing some commentating work instead. But he says he’s already told U.S. Figure Skating officials which Grand Prix events he’d like to do next season.

TURIN, Italy (AP)—Kim Yu-na returned home to South Korea from her majestic performance at the Vancouver Olympics and, for the first time, found it hard to get motivated.

She didn’t want to go to practice and she didn’t want to work—even with the World Figure Skating Championships in Turin, Italy, just a few weeks away.

Yet she didn’t get a hard time for that.

NEW YORK (AP)—Evan Lysacek is headed for the airport. Again.

It’s time for another cross country flight—not that the Olympic gold medalist needs an airplane to be flying high these days. He’s traveling back to Los Angeles for rehearsals for “Dancing With The Stars” after a whirlwind couple of days in New York.

All part of the spoils from Vancouver.