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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2016 22:47:40 GMT
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu topped the 300-point mark to win the NHK Trophy on Saturday and qualify for the figure skating Grand Prix Final. Hanyu landed three quadruple jumps to finish with 301.47 points, the highest score on the GP circuit this season. Hanyu, who was second behind Patrick Chan at Skate Canada last month, secured a berth at the Dec. 8-11 Grand Prix Final next month in Marseille, France. "I'm actually very relieved that I can advance to the Grand Prix Final," Hanyu said. "I was able to land the (quad) loop cleanly for the first time in a competition."
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2016 22:15:08 GMT
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu will not pursue his fifth straight national championship, pulling out of this week’s event due to the flu, according to Japanese media. “I cannot apologize enough for being a bother and causing concern,” Hanyu said in a statement, according to Kyodo News, which added Hanyu came down with the flu last week. “I will focus on resting and treatment so I can come back fully fit.” Hanyu, 22, won his first national title in 2012, days after turning 18 years old. He since became the first Japanese man to win an Olympic title, claimed a world title and four straight Grand Prix Final titles while breaking the records for highest-scoring short and long programs.
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2018 19:25:38 GMT
Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu, figure skating’s biggest star, completed a dramatic comeback from injury in the most satisfying way imaginable, defending his Olympic gold medal to become the sport’s first two-time men’s champion at the Winter Games since Dick Button of the United States in 1948 and 1952. Skating third-to-last behind deafening support that amounted to a home-ice advantage, Hanyu finished with an overall score of 317.85 in his first competition in four months after suffering a right ankle injury that prompted questions over his fitness entering the Olympics. Those doubts proved unfounded as the 23-year-old landed two quadruple jumps and all of his combination jumps in the back half of his program, where skaters are awarded additional points as an incentive for performing through fatigue. While the two-time world champion’s performance was not as flawless as the short program that earned him an Olympic-record score of 111.68, it was more than enough to capture gold. “I just had to do what I could do,” Hanyu said. “My injuries were more severe than I thought and I could not practice as much as I wanted to. If you are a protagonist of a comic cartoon then the setting has been made. Now I have been cheered by so many people. I really am in bliss.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2018 19:13:33 GMT
Yuzuru Hanyu is the 12th PyeongChang Olympic medalist to withdraw from the world figure skating championships later this month, citing a right ankle injury that kept him from November until the Winter Games. Hanyu needs “two weeks of rest and three months of rehabilitation” for ankle ligament damage and other injuries, according to the Japan Skating Federation via Agence France-Presse. “As the result of medical diagnosis, I am not able to compete in the world championships, but I will focus on treatment and rehabilitation so that I can return to full health as soon as possible,” Hanyu said in a statement, according to AFP. “I will continue to do what I can, little by little.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2018 19:15:38 GMT
What Makes Yuzuru Hanyu Great? - Coach Brian Orser's Exclusive Insights Evgeni Plushenko has won four Olympic medals and he was the first male skater who performed the Biellmann spin in the senior competitions. We talked with the icon of Figure Skating about Yuzuru Hanyu, the current Russian women's skaters as well as the evolution and the future of this sport.
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