Yuzuru Hanyu (羽生 結弦, Ha’nyū Yuzuru, born December 7, 1994) is a Japanese figure skater.

His father “Hidetoshi Hanyu” works as a junior high school principal, earning around 7.4 million yen a year, while his mother “Yumi Hanyu” is his manager now, living with him in Toronto, where he trains; but during his initial skating period, she worked at a department store and laundry shop to pay for the sport …

Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu insisted his asthma will not hamper his title defence at next year’s Beijing Games, despite losing again to rival Nathan Chen on Friday. “Honestly, I don’t have any problems with my asthma,” said Hanyu, who finished second behind Chen with a free programme score of 193.76.

The two-time Olympic figure skating champion graduated in September from Waseda University in Japan, where he studied human information science.

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No quadruple Axel has yet been ratified. No quadruple combinations (quadruple jumps followed by quadruple loop or toe loop) or sequences (quadruple jumps followed by any quadruple jumps except for quadruple loop or toe loop) have yet been ratified.

Even though the move that caused the leak was not Kubicka’s backflip, that may have been part of the reason that the backflip eventually was banned by the ISU. The official reason for the ban was because the landing is made on two feet instead of one and is thus not a “real” skating jump.

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No quintuple jump has ever been attempted in a competition before. Olympic silver medallist Uno told Japanese media, “I did say that I will not do more than four revolutions because of the risk of injury, including the lutz, but I want to practice with more revolutions in mind.”

To land a quadruple jump, skaters have to take off with a huge amount of momentum, often propelling themselves upward by striking the ice with the toe pick. Skaters have to jump high in the air while spinning fast enough to make four revolutions in well under a second.

Two-time world champion Nathan Chen said he hopes figure skaters can “take the sport forward” by attempting quintuple jumps. No skater has attempted five rotations in competition and for many it was once seen as an impossible task.

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The headbanger: It is a pairs skating move, and it involves a skater being picked up by the ankle and spun around quickly by their partner, up and down with their head often approaching the ice dangerously close. The ISU banned it because it was considered way too dangerous to attempt.

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There are two things that make the triple axel jump especially difficult: Since the skater must jump facing forward but land going backward, an extra half-rotation is added to every axel jump. They need to generate enough rotational velocity, to spin enough times while in the air.

The thing that makes the 3A more difficult than some quads — or at least more of a stumbling block for skaters — is that the jump requires balancing a number of factors: speed of entrance, size of the jump, rotational speed, etc.

As we were reminded throughout the (blessedly) brief season, Harding was the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition, which she did in 1991. But Harding was not the first woman ever to do this jump—that distinction belongs to Midori Ito of Japan.

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Only 15 female figure skaters have done a ratified triple Axel in competition: Midori Ito (the first one to do it), Tonya Harding, Yukari Nakano, Ludmila Nelidina, Mao Asada (the first one to land three triple Axels in one competition), Kimmie Meissner, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Rika Kihira, Mirai Nagasu, Alysa Liu.

In my experience, the average length of time to get an axel for a skater under 14 with reasonably good jumping ability is between 6 months and two years, but as other posters have said, the amount of ice time and the level of coaching is also a factor. It’s also not unusual to get a double sal or toe before the axel.

She jumped the feared triple axel – regarded as figure skating’s oldest and most difficult jump – in the 2019 Grand Prix Skate Canada, becoming only the 11th female skater to land a triple axel in an official tournament.

Apparently, in Russia, you can fall on your ass and still win gold. EDIT: In the interest of further discussion: Yes, it wasn’t Adelina who fell, she had some wobbly landings.