Tag: Yuzuru Hanyu
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...
FIGURE SKATING Preview: OWG champs Hanyu and Zagitova on the ice in Helsinki
It’s hard to believe, but the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating has already reached the halfway mark with the Grand Prix in Helsinki...
FIGURE SKATING: Tennell upsets Medvedeva, Hanyu wins in Oakville
The International Skating Union’s Challenger Series usually doesn’t get too much attention; it’s the ISU’s second-level series, below its well-known Grand Prix circuit. However,...
EXTRA: The Olympics is just different than any other event
TSX EXTRA – for Feb. 17, 2018: If look closely at the aerial shots from PyeongChang, you’ll often see quite a few – or...
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