Tag: Yuzuru Hanyu
FIGURE SKATING: Chen sensational in third straight Figure Skating Worlds win; Russians sweep the...
Going into Saturday's Free Skate, two-time defending World Champion Nathan Chen of the U.S. was in a hole.
He had finished only third in the...
THE TICKER: Olympic Torch Relay is off and running; Brisbane City Council approves 2032...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The Olympic Torch Relay began...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Get our 709-event calendar for 2021; Russia’s “sanction” for IHF Worlds...
(★ Friends: In such a difficult time, so gratifying to receive 29 donations toward the December bill for server and support costs; with the...
HIGHLIGHTS: Where no man has gone before! Duplantis clears world-record 20-2 3/4 in Torun!
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● ATHLETICS ● Saturday was one of those dream days in track & field, where athletes around...
HIGHLIGHTS: Superb Chen routs Hanyu to win ISU Grand Prix Final by almost 44...
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
“Stunning” is probably the best way to describe the dominating performance by two-time World Champion Nathan Chen...
HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin wins 41st career Slalom in Levi, names reindeer for Ingemar Stenmark
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● ALPINE SKIING ● The annual Slalom competitions in Levi, Finland, ended with a fourth reindeer for...
TSX REPORT: UCLA names Drake Stadium track after Rafer Johnson; Kiwi teen Robinson surprises...
≡ TSX REPORT ~ 28 October 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● UCLA dedicates famed Drake Stadium track to Betsy & Rafer Johnson
Anyone connected with UCLA sports since...
FIGURE SKATING: Hanyu overwhelms field in sensational Skate Canada Int’l victory
Two-time Olympic champ Yuzuru Hanyu scored a lifetime best of 212.99 in the Free Skate and put up the second-highest score ever under the...
TSX REPORT: The World Beach Games came and went; did you notice? + Paris...
≡ TSX REPORT ~ 24 October 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● What was all the fuss about the World Beach Games, anyway?
Although a major topic of discussion...
FIGURE SKATING Preview: Hanyu highlights Skate Canada International this weekend
The ISU Grand Prix is in full swing, with the North American segment finishing at Prospera Place in Kelowna, B.C. this week before moving...
FIGURE SKATING Panorama: Nathan Chen’s “transcendent greatness,” but Yuzuru Hanyu is also no. 1...
Has it been only a week since the brilliant showdown between American Nathan Chen and Japan’s double Olympic champ Yuzuru Hanyu?
Chen’s dominating victory at...
FIGURE SKATING: Sensational Chen out-points Hanyu to defend World title, with Zhou third
You would think that a World Championships in the year following the Olympic Winter Games might have a little less excitement,. But that was...
FIGURE SKATING: Zagitova wins women’s title, Chen leads U.S. men to 1-2-4 in Short...
Russia’s Olympic champ Alina Zagitova confirmed her preeminence at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama City (JPN), while the American men’s trio...
FIGURE SKATING Preview: Is Hanyu injury free? Is Chen ready to defend his title...
There are plenty of attractive story lines at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama City (JPN), but the headline is the expected...
GLOBETROTTING by Phil Hersh: Who will win 2019 figure skating worlds? My gold medal...
Yuzuru Hanyu reacts after his free skate at the 2018 Olympics, when he won a second straight Olympic gold. (Getty Images.)
March 15, 2019
There are...
GLOBETROTTING: Hanyu, Ledecká rise above it all in a year when world sport needed...
by Phil Hersh
(For 28 years the Olympic Games specialist for the Chicago Tribune, Hersh is one of the true experts in the field and...
LANE ONE: The top Olympic-sport stories of 2018, part I: Thrills, yes, but also...
As the calendar runs out on 2018, it’s worth looking back at the stories that were the most compelling, the most exciting and the...
FIGURE SKATING: Hanyu & Zagitova win easily; Gold stuggles in Rostelecom Cup
The Rostelecom Cup in Moscow (RUS) featured the reigning Olympic champions and both Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN; pictured) and Alina Zagitova (RUS) won easily, sending...
FIGURE SKATING Preview: Gracie Gold returns; Hanyu and Zagitova headline Rostelecom Cup
The 23rd edition of the Rostelecom Cup, the Russian stop on the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix, is on this week at the Megasports...
FIGURE SKATING: Hanyu and Zagitova good as gold in Helsinki
The 2018 Olympic champions, Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) and Alina Zagitova (RUS), looked the part once again at the ISU Grand Prix of Helsinki with...
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