Olympic Champion Evan Lysacek impressed the judges in his second week of competition on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Performing a jive set to Avril Lavigne’s “Best Damn Thing,” Lysacek and partner Anna Trebunskaya scored an eight from each of the three judges, bringing his two week total to 47 points of 60. Three of figure skating’s top bloggers and a group of fans called the action for Figure Skaters Online.

Olympic Champion Evan Lysacek will make his dancing debut tonight on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. He and partner Anna Trebunskaya, a Russian dancing pro who has finished as high as second place in previous seasons, are vying for the Mirror Ball trophy.

U.S. Figure Skating announced today the selection of Portland, Ore., as the host city for 2010 Skate America. The competition, presented by U.S. Figure Skating, the Oregon Sports Authority and the Rose Garden, with support from Travel Portland, will take place Nov. 11-14 at the Rose Garden Arena, which also served as the site of the 2005 State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

No American men medaled at the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, as overnight leader Grant Hochstein and Keegan Messing, who was second in the short program, faltered on the triple Axels. Hochstein took fifth while Messing placed fourth overall.

Fresh-off competing at the Vancouver Olympic Games, Johnny Weir and Rachael Flatt will fulfill the dreams of 100 Chicago-area junior skaters as they perform together in this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Also participating in the show are former Olympians Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov as well as 2008 and 2009 national pairs champions Rockne Brubaker and Keauna McLaughlin.

Naperville, Ill., is proud to announce “Evan Lysacek Day” on March 26, 2010, when Evan Lysacek, the 2010 Olympic gold medalist in men’s figure skating, will be visiting his hometown of Naperville. Lysacek is also the 2009 world champion, two-time U.S. champion and the Grand Prix Final champion.

Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China skated to the gold in the pairs event at the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague, Netherlands. Japan’s Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran claimed the silver and the bronze medal went to Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia. Reigning U.S. Championship silver medalists in junior pairs Britney Simpson and Nathan Miller finished fifth with a score of 138.00 points, the highest among the American pairs.

Grant Hochstein won the men’s short program at the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, coming in ahead of teammate Keegan Messing and Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu. Armin Mahbanoozadeh is in eighth place.

Johnny Weir issued a statement about his withdraw from the 2010 World Championships.

Three-time U.S. champion and 2008 World bronze medalist Johnny Weir has announced he will not participate in the upcoming 2010 World Figure Skating Championships, which will take place March 22-28. “I have decided that it is not advantageous for me to partake in the World Championships in Torino, Italy,” Weir said. “While I understand the importance of competition, I feel that a short break at this time would be personally beneficial to me.”