Adam Rippon, Ashley Wagner, and Sarah Hughes
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Sharp skating talk with chaotic rink lore.
The Runthrough treats figure skating like a sport, a soap opera, and a group chat happening at full speed. Competition previews, World Championships recaps, costume arguments, and audience bits all share space without losing the skating thread.
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The Runthrough is figure skating commentary with the social velocity of a private chat and the memory of a dedicated fan forum. It knows the sport cold. It also knows that skating is never just elements and placements. Recent episodes frame the World Championships through medal math, clean-skate likelihoods, absences, contenders, and dark-horse picks. Then the conversation turns sideways. A jacket in the kiss and cry becomes a costume. A program skated to blue while wearing red becomes a hill worth defending. Gold blades in a Tonya Harding clip become the origin story for a superstition. The annual Rosie Awards let the show turn real moments into fake categories, mock-serious verdicts, and audience-participation canon. Live episodes add another layer: Gwinnett, Adult Nationals, family in the room, skaters in the audience, and a closing note of sincere admiration under all the jokes. The panel's rhythm is quick and interruptive, but the looseness rarely means emptiness. A preview can still land on actual contenders. A recap can still explain why a short program changed the field. A tangent about a tiny microphone, a med spa, a mouse problem, or the Intrusive Thoughts hotline mostly works because the skating context is already sturdy. The show is blunt, ridiculous, and affectionate in the same breath. It is best for listeners who enjoy figure skating as a technical sport and as a messy cultural ecosystem. The Runthrough does not sand off the oddness. It turns the oddness into the archive.
Made for: For figure skating fans who want competition analysis, recurring bits, costume discourse, and affectionate bluntness in the same feed. It especially suits listeners already fluent in skating names, events, and kiss-and-cry mythology.
What sets it apart: The show pairs figure skating fluency with a live-wire panel rhythm that can turn jackets, blades, microphones, and fake awards into shared canon. It is serious about performances without becoming solemn about the culture around them.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner join forces with Sarah Hughes (no relation to 2002 Olympic Champion, Sarah Hughes) to tackle the most important questions figure skaters have been asking themselves for years. Questions like: “Why does this short program feel so long?” or “Is there such a thing as your costume being too tight?” and the most important question of all: “Will changing my hair color fix all my problems?” Join the team as they cover all the news, competitions, and drama of the figure skating season. Will they kiss? Will they cry? There’s only one way to find out. Follow us...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Technical explanation, candid predictions and unruly humor make The Runthrough a lively guide to figure skating results and performance.
The Runthrough turns figure skating results into animated conversation, with Adam Rippon, Ashley Wagner and Sarah Hughes moving between technical scrutiny, competitive stakes and sharp comedy.
A popped jump becomes forensic evidence, then somehow the Pope gets called in to steady your nerves.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A live skating awards show built on chemistry, crowd energy, and committed bits.
The third annual Rosies plays like a live awards-night hangout in Gwinnett, with Sarah Hughes, Adam Rippon, and Ashley Wagner steering the conversation through fake awards, skating jokes, and a room full of family and friends.
A loose, funny preview that still knows where the medals are.
This segment feels loose in a way that works more often than it slips. It starts with tiny-mic jokes and the med-spa backdrop, then settles into medal talk with a clear question underneath: who can skate clean when the pressure spikes?
A lively reaction show that makes pairs skating feel immediate.
The conversation keeps its footing by moving briskly from medal stakes to jump math to the messier reality of popped elements. Adam Rippon, Sarah Hughes, and Ashley Wagner make the scoring feel legible without turning it into a lecture, which is the main strength here.
A funny, frantic Pairs reaction that turns Olympic nerves into communal pleasure.
This episode leans hard into reaction mode, mixing skating talk with jokes about cursed Olympics energy, papal blessings, Team Ashley, and the strange pleasure of watching difficult elements land cleanly.
A chaotic medal-night recap that keeps the skating real and the room loud.
The episode treats the 2026 Olympic men’s free program as both a scoreboard and a pressure cooker. Mikhail Shiderov takes gold, Yuma Kageyama lands his second straight Olympic silver, and Shun Sato takes bronze, while Ilya Malinin, who led after the short, becomes the night’s…
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The Runthrough’s “GP France Recap: Wakanda, Wisconsin” contrasts praise for Georgian pairs with jokes about costumes and camera choices.
The Runthrough previews Grand Prix France in Angers, where Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron are expected to contend in ice dance.
The Runthrough returns after a month-long break with Ashley, Adam, and Sarah assessing early-season figure skating programs.
The Runthrough records the third annual Rosies live in Gwinnett, Georgia.
This is a special crossover episode between two podcasts where the host shares stories and messages from listeners for Ashley.
Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss the 2026 World Championships figure skating event and review a previous podcast episode.
This episode is a preview of upcoming figure skating podcast content, including an ISU awards recap and world championships coverage, while announcing multiple episodes over the next two weeks due to Adam's absence.
Chaos first.
This episode of The Run-Through figure skating podcast discusses Tonya Harding's gold blades in a clip, leading into a recap of the Oscars and other skating topics.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss figure skating news and share a humorous story about a mouse in an apartment.
Olympians and a host discuss figure skating news, competitions, and personal anecdotes with humor.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Sarah Hughes discuss figure skating news and banter about skiing and injuries.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss the women's figure skating event at the Olympics, praising the skaters and analyzing the competition.
Hosts discuss the women's short program results from a figure skating competition, highlighting top skaters and their scores.
The Run-Through opens on Olympic figure skating and quickly gets tangled in a Sarah Hughes identity mix-up.
The Run-Through reacts to an Olympic pairs skate with the kind of energy only the Olympics can pull out of people.
Olympians and a host discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama with humor.
The men's free skate at the 2026 Olympics delivers a medal rundown and a lot of reaction.
Olympians and a host discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama with humor.
The hosts recap the men's short program at the 2026 Olympics, discussing skaters' performances and reactions.
Hosts discuss the rhythm dance event and their commentary on ice dance, with humorous tangents about Ricky Martin.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner preview the men's figure skating event at Milan Cortina with humorous personal anecdotes.
The hosts discuss day two of the team figure skating event, sharing personal anecdotes and reactions to the cold weather at the venue.
This episode previews the ice dance event at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games with hosts Sarah Hughes, Ashley Wagner, and Adam Rippon, who are figure skating fans but not ice dancers, sharing humorous anecdotes about their lack of expertise.
The hosts preview the 2026 Olympic figure skating team event in Milano, sharing personal stress and anticipation while discussing their thoughts before Adam leaves for the games.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama with humor and insider perspective.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner, along with Sarah Hughes, discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama in a humorous roundtable format.
Olympians Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama with humorous commentary.
Olympians discuss figure skating news, competitions, and drama with humor and personal anecdotes.
Olympic figure skaters Adam Rippon and Ashley Wagner discuss their observations of St.
The hosts reminisce about a past U.S.
Hosts Ashley Wagner and Adam Rippon, joined by Rosie, count down the top 10 figure skating moments of the year.
The hosts preview the Japanese Nationals figure skating competition with humorous banter.
The hosts discuss a recent figure skating event, the Grand Prix Final, after sharing a humorous anecdote about blue candy staining teeth.
The hosts discuss recent travels and Thanksgiving, setting up a casual figure skating news episode.
The hosts kick off a live show ticket week with banter about social batteries and introduce their fantasy league draft for the figure skating preseason.