Yuzuru Hanyu is a Japanese figure skater. He is a two-time Olympic champion, a two-time World champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final champion, a Four Continents champion, the 2010 World Junior champion, the 2009–10 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time Japanese national champion.
Yuzuru Hanyu: Quad axel| What group is in| Did land a 4a
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Quad axel:
At a nondescript shrine in the southern Japanese province of Hyogo, 29-year-old Takada Chie closed her eyes and prayed for Japan’s Ice Prince, figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu.
Takada, who works in marketing, made the 326-mile pilgrimage from her home in Tokyo, all the way to Mikage, Kobe City, to seek blessings from the Yuzuruha shrine.
This was her second visit to the place of worship, which has become something of a hot spot among the figure skater’s super-fans. That’s because while the shrine is dedicated to Kumano-okami, a mythological three-legged crow, its name shares several syllables with Hanyu’s.
What group is in:
Eight years on, Hanyu, now 27, carries the weight of Japan’s hopes for a men’s figure skating gold medal on his shoulders. If he wins on February 10, he will cement his legacy in Olympic history and become the only other man since Sweden’s Gillis Grafström’s record in 1928 to win three successive Olympic men’s singles figure skating golds.
“When you put on the Japan jersey, you have to win,” Hanyu said after winning the Japanese national championships in December. “The Olympics isn’t a recital. It’s a place where you have to win.”
Did land a 4a:
While Chen might be a formidable opponent, Hanyu is looking to tilt the scales in his favor with a quadruple Axel, a jump that has never been pulled off before in any competition.
Hanyu has described the arduous three-year journey to attempt the risky jump — which would require him to rotate four-and-a-half times in mid-air before landing — as “walking through darkness.”
“I’ve been practicing thinking I might die from a concussion if I fall and hit my head on the ice,” he told Japanese news outlet Mainichi Shimbun.
