IN PHOTOS: Two-time Olympic figure-skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement from figure skating competition at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, July 19. 📸: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters
TOKYO, Japan – Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu, a two-time Olympic figure-skating champion whose attempt to pull off a third gold ended in a fourth place result at the Beijing Games in February, said on Tuesday, July 19, he would turn professional and retire from competition.
Making the announcement at a news conference in Tokyo, the 27-year-old said, however, that he saw the next stage of his skating career as a beginning, not an end. Nicknamed “Ice Prince,” Hanyu had built up anticipation for the Beijing competition by promising to attempt the quadruple Axel, or “4A” – a 4-1/2-rotation jump never before landed by anyone in competition – but fell short of that goal.
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