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 ...
Nathan Chen put on quite a show at the U.S. national championships in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday. He made history by becoming the first skater to cleanly landed five quadruple jumps in competition in his free skate on the way to a huge victory, ...
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 ...
Freed from the constraints of competition, retired athletes often change directions. Some go into business, a few into TV, others into coaching or various endeavors. For two-time world champion Miki Ando, it is all of the above. The former skating star looks to be more popular ...
There is nothing in life like a moment of serendipity. Ice Time had one of these recently and it could not have worked out better. On my way to the second day of the Japan Junior Championships in Sapporo last month, I walked down to the ...
Yuzuru Hanyu's victory at the Grand Prix Final in Marseille, France, on Saturday made it five straight years that a Japanese man has won the title at the event. Daisuke Takahashi began the streak back in 2012, and Hanyu not only kept the run going ...
