One of the great aspects of being a sportswriter is the people the job puts you in contact with. I have been blessed in my long career in sports media to work with, get to know or interview some of the all-time giants in different ...
Japan missed out on its third consecutive title at the Japan Open team figure skating competition on Saturday, settling for a runner-up finish. The host team, featuring Mai Mihara, Marin Honda, Shoma Uno and pro skater Nobunari Oda, scored a total of 614.93 points in ...
The ability of sports to glorify one moment and humble the next was on full display at the Autumn Classic International in Montreal over the weekend. Olympic and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu broke his own world record in the short program with 112.72 points on ...
Yuzuru Hanyu proved he was human after all, settling for second place in the Autumn Classic International figure skating competition after an error-filled routine in the men's free skate Saturday. The 22-year-old Olympic and two-time world champion, who led after Friday's short program with the ...
Olympic and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu opened his season by breaking his own world record in the short program at the Autumn Classic International on Friday night. The 22-year-old Hanyu pulled off an error-free routine to score 112.72 points, topping the 14-man field and adding ...
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 ...
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu hit four quadruple jumps in a record score to snatch a second career gold in style at the world figure skating championship on Saturday. The 22-year-old, so close to gold in the last two world championships, led a Japanese one-two ahead ...
Rising star Shoma Uno sits in second place behind two-time defending champion Javier Fernandez of Spain after the short program at the world championships onThursday. Yuzuru Hanyu, looking to reclaim the world crown he won in 2014, got off to a slow start, getting a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collecting her second straight European title with a world-record score last Friday, Evgenia Medvedeva emphatically reinforced that she is a prohibitive favorite for the gold medal in Pyeongchang next year. This is presuming that she and her fellow Russians will be allowed to compete in ...
Russian's Evgenia Medvedeva won gold at the European Championships with a world record score on Friday for her second straight title in the women's competition. Leading after the short program, the 17-year-old performed an almost perfect free skate. She opened in great fashion with a ...
