Yuzuru Hanyu

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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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Yuzuru Hanyu's retirement marks end of an era for figure skating (Nikkei Asia)

TOKYO -- After a legendary career, Japanese figure skating superstar Yuzuru Hanyu is looking to achieve new heights as an artist away from the dog-eat.

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Japanese Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu stepping away from ... (ABC News)

The two-time Olympic ice skating champion says his focus will now be on skating professionally in exhibitions after finishing fourth at the Beijing Olympics ...

Hanyu has little left to prove. 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.

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