The annual release of the Grand Prix assignments by the ISU traditionally signals the start of the new skating campaign. It came last Friday, so the Olympic season has officially begun. With Yuzuru Hanyu being both the defending Olympic and world champion, Shoma Uno ...
It is rare for an athlete to make history the first time they embark on a new level in their career. Usually they settle in, bide their time, and work their way up. But one aspiring Japanese skater has a different plan for the ...
Yuzuru Hanyu’s greatness is unquestioned. Olympic champion, world champion, holder of multiple world records, he is quickly becoming the giant of his generation. Now the 22-year-old is planning for the future and examining how he can improve even more. Speaking to the media after ...
The news hit Japan and the skating world like a thunderbolt last Monday night when Mao Asada announced she was retiring from the sport. A true giant was departing. There was no other way to put it. The three-time world champion decided it was ...
It has been 12 days now since Yuzuru Hanyu’s epic free skate at the world championships in Helsinki won him a second title, and rather than receding into the memory banks of our minds, it continues to resonate. The more Ice Time watches it, ...
“Awesome.” One word from coach Brian Orser to his prized pupil said it all following Yuzuru Hanyu’s record-breaking free skate at the world championships in Helsinki on Friday. Facing immense pressure after placing just fifth in the short program, Hanyu roared back to capture ...
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 ...
Marin Honda saved her best for last. After struggling through a season in which she admitted that being the reigning world junior champion had created stress for her, Honda responded with two fine programs to earn the silver medal behind Russia’s Alina Zagitova at ...
Marin Honda’s recent trip to the Arctic Edge Ice Arena in Canton, Michigan, to prepare for defense of her world junior title with legendary coach/choreographer Marina Zoueva represented the continuation of a relationship that began two summers ago. Zoueva, a former ice dancer for ...
Reigning world junior champion Marin Honda traveled to Canton, Michigan, recently to spend time working with coach and choreographer Marina Zoueva at the Arctic Edge Ice Arena. Honda is tuning up for defense of her title at the world junior championships in Taipei this ...
What a difference a week makes. Two Sundays ago, Shoma Uno was earning a bronze medal at the Four Continents Championships in Gangneung, South Korea, behind American Nathan Chen and Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in impressive fashion. How impressive? So much so that a ...
It was another successful week for Japan on the international circuit. A week in which Yuzuru Hanyu does not win may not seem successful to some, but that is not the way Ice Time sees it. Japan took home half of the singles medals ...
