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 time to ...
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, the ...
"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 his second ...
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 ...
The Japan Times is offering several readers the chance to win a copy of the recently released Japanese book "Team Brian 300-Point Legend" about coach Brian Orser's experiences teaching Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu and two-time world titlist Javier Fernandez. Orser, a two-time Olympic silver medalist ...
This season has seen the emergence of several young stars on the skating scene. Perhaps no one has made as big of an impact as South Korea's Cha Jun-hwan, who became the men's national champion on Sunday. Cha, a 15-year-old from Seoul, dominated at the ...
There is nothing worse than seeing a great athlete that has hung on too long. Struggling to regain their past glory in the glare of the spotlight and growing increasingly frustrated when they can't accomplish it, this can be a very humbling experience for even ...
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu topped the 300-point mark in a dominating victory at the NHK Trophy on Saturday night at Makomanai Arena. Hanyu put on an outstanding performance to "Hope and Legacy" in an ambitious free skate, displaying both his athletic prowess and excellent interpretative ...
Wakaba Higuchi made a successful senior Grand Prix debut by taking the bronze medal at the Trophee de France in Paris on Saturday. The 15-year-old moved up from fifth after the short program to make the podium behind reigning world champion Evgenia Medvedeva and ...
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu has made a habit of starting slowly during the Grand Prix season in recent years. But as the old axiom in sports goes: "It's not how you start. It's how you finish." Such was the case at Skate Canada on Saturday, when ...
Javier Fernandez couldn't practice, couldn't squeeze his foot into his skate, and all he needed was "the best program of my life." With some padding in his boot, ultrasound treatment for his inflamed heel and a lot of nerve, Fernandez swung a daunting deficit into ...
Yuzuru Hanyu, the star who trains in Toronto, started to answer a question in English about the pressure he faces and then had to stop himself. "I can't explain — I'm speaking Japanese, sorry," he said with a sheepish laugh. That was about the only thing ...
