Kagiyama Yuma already has sights set on worlds - and Milano Cortina
Kagiyama Yuma is not resting on his laurels anytime soon.
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Figure skating-'I want to be like Chen', says Japanese medallist Uno
BEIJING : A day after taking a bronze medal at the Beijing Games, Japanese figure skater Shoma Uno said he would keep working to go higher "to be like Nathan (Chen)" without the baggage of expectation that has swirled around countryman Yuzuru Hanyu for years.
Kagiyama Yuma's silver lining playbook
As far as Olympic debuts go, Kagiyama Yuma's was about as good as it gets.
Youth Olympic champion Kagiyama seals silver in Beijing
Two years on from winning gold at the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Lausanne 2020, Japanese figure skater Kagiyama Yuma is back on an Olympic podium, having won silver in the men’s singles event at Beijing 2022.
Yuzuru Hanyu: Can Japan’s figure skating star beat Nathan Chen to Beijing Olympics gold? Will quad axel help?
Nathan Chen set a new short programme world record to blow apart the competition in the men’s singles – but it was a blunder from his biggest rival Yuzuru Hanyu that sparked the biggest gasps. Japan star Hanyu, the champion from Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018, blew his first jump – rotating just once when he was meant to attempt a quadruple salchow. Although he recovered to deliver the rest of his performance with his famed grace and poise, he sits eighth at the halfway stage.
Olympics-Figure skating-Left coachless by COVID, some skaters feel a void
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
Figure skating: Left coachless by COVID-19, some skaters feel a void
BEIJING: COVID-19 cases at the Beijing Olympics have sidelined some figure skaters but also rattled healthy competitors who have suddenly found themselves without a coach at the most important competition of their careers.