TOKYO — Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan is stepping away from competitive figure skating, he said Tuesday. “I don’t like the word ‘retirement’ so I don’t really want to use it.” Hanyu won back-to-back gold medals at the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. There were only a few thousand fans allowed inside the tightly controlled …
Reigning Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu returned to competitive action at the Japanese national championships in Saitama, where he took the lead after the men’s short programme in his first competitive skate in eight months. The 27-year-old landed a quad slachow, a quad toe-triple toe combination and triple axel to help him to a score of 111.31, leading reigning …
