Yuzuru Hanyu will head to the Grand Prix Final next week in Marseille, France, at the top of his game. His performance at the NHK Trophy here over the weekend reaffirmed his place at the pinnacle of his sport. Hanyu's training partner Javier Fernandez has ...
Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the title in ice dance with a record showing in the free dance at the NHK Trophy on Sunday at Makomanai Arena. The duo was in first place after Saturday's short dance and retained the lead with a ...
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 ...
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu vaulted into first place at the NHK Trophy on Friday night behind two booming quadruple jumps in the short program. Skating to "Let's Go Crazy" before a full house at Makomanai Arena, Hanyu opened with a quad loop that though fully ...
Reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu will essentially be competing against himself at this weekend's NHK Trophy. After setting three world records in two nights a year ago at this event, the final leg of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series, the fans at ...
It was a revelatory weekend at the recently concluded Japan Junior Championships at Tsukisamu Gymnasium. What stood out most? Three things — Kaori Sakamoto's grit, Yuna Shiraiwa's grace, Marin Honda's fragility. This is what Ice Time took away from the events of the past few days. Sakamoto's determination ...
Reigning Olympic and world all-around gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura won his eighth consecutive NHK Cup on Thursday. As usual, Uchimura was in a league of his own, totaling 184.650 points to finish comfortably ahead of Ryohei Kato (180.100), who beat Yusuke Tanaka by just 0.100 ...
Sometimes in life we are in the right place at the right time. Saturday night was one of these cases for Ice Time. What Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu did that evening at Big Hat was nothing short of incredible. It was the perfect meshing of athleticism ...
Americans Maia and Alex Shibutani won the ice dance at the NHK Trophy on Sunday with a solid performance in the free dance at Big Hat. The duo led after Saturday's short dance and retained their position with an energetic routine to Coldplay's "Fix You." ...
Just when you thought he couldn't get any better, Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu gave a performance for the ages on Saturday night. For the second night in a row, Hanyu established a new world record on the way to victory at the NHK Trophy. Not ...
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu grabbed the lead in the short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday night with a world-record score of 106.33 points. Skating before a packed house at Big Hat, the dynamic Hanyu opened with a quadruple salchow, then landed a beautiful ...
Rika Hongo jeopardized her chance to make the Grand Prix Final for the second straight year after struggling through a poor free skate at the Cup of Russia in Moscow on Saturday. Hongo was the defending champion in the event and entered the free skate ...
