Tag: Yuzuru Hanyu

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan skates to gold in the men’s free skate final at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi. Photograph: Darron Cummings/AP The 19-year-old Japanese star Yuzuru

Daisuke Takahashi admitted that rapidly improving young teammate Yuzuru Hanyu had helped inspire him towards silver at the world figure skating championships. National champion Takahashi, 26, finished runner-up