We May Never See Another Skater Like Yuzuru Hanyu

The Japanese skater retired from opposition with two Olympic gold medals, international championship gold medals and more

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stuffed Winnie the Pooh bears than all of us can count Yuzuru Hanyu introduced an extraordinary showmanship,

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artistry and energy to the ice.Credit...Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press Yuzuru Hanyu, two champion, stated Tuesday

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that he would now not take part in competitions, and the landscape of the sport of discern skating means be the identical.

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To get an concept of how lots he has intended to his game for the beyond dozen years, remember a number of the enthusiasts

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who watched him compete at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics In one corner of the area, 3 generations of Hanyu

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enthusiasts — a teenage boy, his center-aged mom and his gray-haired grandmother — sat on the threshold in

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their seats, straining for a glimpse of him They wore fuzzy Winnie the Pooh hats that made them look as even though they

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had strapped large crammed Pooh bears to their heads, and all of them clutched Pooh bears they deliberate to throw

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on the ice after his performance Dotting the stands have been masses of enthusiasts just like those three,

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We May Never See Another Skater Like Yuzuru Hanyu all wearing Pooh equipment and on a paparazzi-like project to follow Hanyu’s

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each circulate. In skating circles those enthusiasts are referred to as Fan-yus, and the bears they throw onto the ice are Yuzu-Poohs,

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cute and snappy evidence that the cult of Yuzuru Hanyu took figure-skating fandom to a degree never visible before.

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We May Never See Another Skater Like Yuzuru Hanyu gear once they first saw him with a Pooh-themed tissue field on the rink in 2010,

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