BOSTON (WWLP) - Top figure skaters from around the globe competed for gold and spots for their country at the 2026 Winter Olympics. A historic weekend for U.S. Figure Skating with Team USA earning a gold medal in three of the four events. The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships sold out the TD Garden not once, but multiple days. Fans packed the arena, some traveling from as far as Montreal. "It was about fun for us, but it's turned out to be everybody comes up to us and talks about what does it mean and we've been saying it's because we want to be together," shared Bernice Sharp from Montreal. Figure skater pays tribute to late parents at World Figure Skating Championships Even hockey players decided it was time for a change of scenery and attended the Sunday Exhibition of Champions, a show put on after the competition is completed. Medalists from each event perform a show routine. Special guests like the Haydenettes, Maxim Naumov, local athletes from the Skating Club of Boston and the 2025 National Development Team also took part."I'm like excited to see the nice costumes," shared a local hockey player. "For the ice skating, I'm here just for the ice skating," said Laura Poloski from Pensacola, FL. The Exhibition of Champions was the last opportunity for Baystaters to see the medalists skate and many Olympic hopefuls for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, Italy. "I'm really excited! I just started to ice skate myself and my friend has told me which skaters to keep an eye on," shared Gwyneth Davies. Some of the skaters who attended the national development camp in Wichita, Kansas, with the athletes who lost their lives, got the chance to skate in their honor Sunday afternoon. "One of the main reasons why we're here today is because of them, and I definitely want to make sure we perform for them and have a great time for them," shared Roman Wyzik, who currently trains in Charlotte, North Carolina. The World Figure Skating Championships were last held in Boston in 2016.With the winter Olympic games less than a year away, locals got the chance to get a glimpse at what's to come. Local News Headlines Northampton Elks Lodge donate funds to Veterans Food Panty Two injured during Tesla protest in Watertown, police investigating World Figure Skating Championships sells out TD Garden multiple days Figure skater pays tribute to late parents at World Figure Skating Championships WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com. ...read more read less