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born 1994 Japan
Yuzuru Hanyu (羽生 結弦, Hanyū Yuzuru, born December 7, 1994) is a Japanese figure skater and the first in 66 years since 1952 to win back-to-back Olympic gold in the men's singles discipline. In recognition of his historic and inspirational achievements Hanyu received the People's Honour Award in 2018.
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I always open my heart. If you don’t open your heart, you cannot absorb anything and it’s not interesting. The driving force for growth is to have an open heart.
If you’re going to set goals, it’s better for them to be big. If you write them down decisively, it’s easier to succeed. Indeed, my way of thinking is quite mathematical.
I managed to win twice, but the Olympics are something special. The Olympic Games are what every athlete and figure skater wants to win. Winning them makes you a true champion.
Costumes are important tools for me to express the story in my program. I also think that costumes are one of the things that serve to highlight the uniqueness of Yuzuru Hanyu, the skater.
I try to find challenges after every competition and overcome them the next time.
That so-called balance between [technical] difficulty and artistry, to me that doesn't actually exist. Artistry is founded upon absolute technical prowess, that's what I think.
The chance to overcome another challenge is simply, as I always feel, a blessing.
I am me. No more, no less than Yuzuru Hanyu. I want to be myself and do what I can do to the full at the Olympics as well.
I don't dislike adversities. What I dislike is myself being weak. I really hate it, but I think being weak means that you have the potential to become strong.
I believe that if you focus on what you should do, the road ahead will open up naturally.
Efforts will lie, but they will not be in vain.
I am an athlete, and as an athlete it’s normal to keep challenging to do more and more.
My strong point is that even if I don’t do well in a competition, I don’t really get depressed. On the contrary, my motivation goes up 100% after a competition where I’ve failed.
I hope to keep on living the present in a way that I can always be proud of myself in front of tomorrow's me.
My strength is, I’m able to really analyze myself and have that image and try to match that with the physical skating.
People think that I am in a position to support people around me. However, on the contrary, I realized that I was the one who had been receiving so much support.
I'd like to overcome more barriers. I'd like to be in the position where, no matter what happens - even if they skate their free skate clean - if I skate clean, I will win.
I often feel that things you take for granted are not always guaranteed. Everything exists just by luck. Because I almost lost a lot of things, I came to feel this way.
I don’t feel like I’ve hit my limit yet. Rather, it’s a question of how I overcome moments in which I may feel like this is my limit.
It’s thanks to Javi, if I beat my pressure. When I feel nervous, he’s usually talking about something funny. So I think, I owe what I won to him.
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