Fasten your seat belt. Stow your baggage underneath the seat in front of you. Put your seat and tray table in the upright position. It's time for takeoff of the Olympic season. That's right, it may be the middle of the summer, but the road to Pyeonchang begins ...
One of the benefits of covering skating for many years has been the high caliber of people I have continually come in contact with. Skaters, coaches, choreographers, executives and parents, they almost always seem to be open and approachable. The latest example came recently when ...
Mao Asada was presented with a special lifetime achievement award at the Japan Skating Federation's annual awards ceremony Thursday. It was the first award of its kind given out by the JSF. Mao, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics silver medalist and three-time world champion, announced her ...
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 his winning ...
The Aichi prefectural government said Monday it has created an honorary citizen award and selected recently retired figure skater Mao Asada as the first recipient. The 26-year-old native of Nagoya and silver medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, who announced her retirement earlier in the ...
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 ...
Mao Asada, the women's figure skating silver medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and three-time world champion, has announced on her blog that she is retiring.
Mao Asada graciously answered every question she was asked during a news conference on Wednesday, her first public appearance since announcing her retirement from figure skating two days earlier in a post on her blog. Speaking in a large ballroom at a Tokyo hotel, in ...
Three-time Olympic women's freestyle wrestling gold medalist Saori Yoshida said Tuesday she believes that retiring figure skater Mao Asada should be bestowed with the People's Honor Award. Speaking at an event in Tokyo a day after Mao announced she was calling time on her glittering ...
Fans across the nation expressed shock Monday night after hearing beloved figure skater Mao Asada, the 26-year-old long-time face of Japanese figure skating, was retiring as a competitor. "I'll never forget how she won a silver medal in the (2010) Vancouver Olympics," said 19-year-old university ...
The day after figure skating icon Mao Asada announced her retirement on her personal blog, news spread like fire across the country and was received with mixed feelings. On Tuesday, reactions and well-wishes came pouring in from all corners as the 26-year-old Nagoya native was ...
Figure skating icon Mao Asada announced Monday on her blog that she is retiring. The 26-year-old, three-time world champion and silver medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics — known affectionately by her first name in Japan — has been plagued by left-knee pain this season. "I've ...
