“Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
Wakaba Higuchi could likely relate to the line by actor Hal Holbrook in Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic “Wall Street” because she was on the precipice of disaster when she took the ice for her free skate at the world championships in Milan on Friday night.
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Yuzuru Hanyu,
Oliver Stone,
Brian Orser,
Satoko Miyahara,
Hal Holbrook,
Shoma Uno,
Kaori Sakamoto,
Wakaba Higuchi,
Nathan Chen,
Kazuki Tomono,
Kaetlyn Osmond,
Alina Zagitova,
Ryan Bradley
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