Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu enters this week’s world championships in Helsinki needing to get a big monkey off his back.
It has been three years since Hanyu won his last world title (in 2014 in Saitama) and people are starting to talk. The conversation does not center on the superstar’s ability, which is phenomenal, but on his consistency.
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