Yuzuru Hanyu

2022 - 7 - 19

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Japan's 'Ice Prince' Yuzuru Hanyu Retires From Competition (Bloomberg)

Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, a two-time Olympic champion, announced his retirement from competitive figure skating -- but said he plans to keep working on ...

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Yuzuru Hanyu: Japanese figure skating icon retires from competition ... (CNN)

Japanese all-time great figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement from competition on Tuesday, marking the end of a stellar career that included ...

His Sochi performance made him an immediate star and arguably Japan's His ankle injury prevented him from participating in the World Figure Skating Championships in March, according to the Olympics site. Afterward, he said in a news conference that his ankle had hurt so badly the morning of the final he had considered pulling out -- and would have "definitely" done so if it had been "any other competition," according to the official Olympics website

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Yuzuru Hanyu retires from figure skating: 'I stopped wanting to be ... (Home of the Olympic Channel)

Yuzuru Hanyu, a two-time Olympic champion and arguably the greatest male singles figure skater in history, announced his retirement on Tuesday at age 27.

In 2012, he took bronze at the world championships. I was terrified.” — and reportedly spent three or four days at an evacuation center before returning to his damaged family home. “I’ll no longer be able to be compared with other competitors,” he said in a Tokyo news conference, according to a Kyodo News translation. I stopped wanting to be evaluated.” “I had no time to put on the blade covers, so my blades were damaged. The epicenter of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami was 80 miles from his native Sendai. He was training at the time — “I ran out of the building in my skating boots,” he said then.

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Yuzuru Hanyu, Two-Time Olympic Champion, Says He Is Retiring ... (The Wall Street Journal)

TOKYO—Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who won men's singles Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, said Tuesday he was retiring from competition.

- ASOS:Asos coupon 20% Off over $50 You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. He said he would continue skating as a professional athlete.

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Legendary Japanese Figure Skater Yuzuru Hanyu Retires from ... (PEOPLE.com)

The 27-year-old walks away with two Olympic gold medals, two world champion titles, four Grand Prix Finals wins, and more than a dozen broken world records.

Hanyu stepping back from competition comes after a long and successful career. Hanyu's gold medal win at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang made him the first male figure skater since 1952 to win back-to-back Olympic golds, per the International Olympics Committee. The 27-year-old spoke at a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday to share the news and express his "deepest gratitude" to fans for supporting him during his career, CNN reported.

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2-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu steps away from ... (CBC.ca)

Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan is stepping away from competitive figure skating, he said Tuesday.

He has been the world's most watched skater for a decade and the sport's standard for excellence. "I don't feel particularly sad," Hanyu said. "I'm not going to participate in competitions from now on," he said. The 27-year-old Japanese skater is also a two-time world champion, and a four-time Grand Prix Final champion. However, most of his focus seemed to be on skating professionally in exhibitions. I also feel that I will no longer seek these kind of evaluations."

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Legendary Japanese Figure Skater Yuzuru Hanyu Retires from ... (Yahoo)

The 27-year-old walks away with two Olympic gold medals, two world champion titles, four Grand Prix Finals wins, and more than a dozen broken world records.

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Yuzuru Hanyu Retires and Figure Skating Won't Be the Same (The New York Times)

The Japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu retired from competition with two Olympic gold medals, two world championship gold medals and more stuffed Pooh bears than ...

And just as they did when he won his Olympic medals, those bears will turn the rink’s glassy white surface into a field of fuzzy gold Yuzu-Poohs to honor one of the best skaters ever. He came close to landing that axel but did not — and the fans gasped in unison when he fell. When he won the gold medal in 2014 at the Sochi Olympics, he became the first Asian man to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and, at 19, was the youngest winner since the American Dick Button won gold in 1948. While he could have played it safe in the free skate to try to win a medal, he did the opposite by attempting to become the first person to land a quadruple axel in competition. His goal was to appeal to all people, not just die-hard skating fans or fans from his home country of Japan, and he succeeded. In one corner of the arena, three generations of Hanyu fans — a teenage boy, his middle-aged mother and his gray-haired grandmother — sat on the edge of their seats, straining for a glimpse of him.

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