A quad axel involves four-and-a-half revolutions. No one has ever cleanly landed it before. In the years that followed the PyeongChang Games, Hanyu and Chen built up an exciting rivalry.

Of the six figure skating jumps, the axel is the most difficult and earns the highest score. Yuzuru Hanyu attempted a quad axel jump at the Beijing Olympics on Feb. 10, exactly 140 years after ...

BEIJING--Yuzuru Hanyu made history with his quad axel jump at the Beijing Olympics. Only, it wasn’t the record that he has long sought and obsessed over. The International Skating Union ...

"I am determined to go on trying to reach new levels, including the quad-axel, and fulfill my vision of the ideal skater." Hanyu attempting a jump no one has ever successfully landed in ...

11:18 p.m. ET: Great opening quad-triple combo for Mozalev, then it gets messy with a fall on a quad, a single axel. Into 13th - and the free skate - with 77.05. 11:26 p.m. ET: The time has come.

His only other “public interaction” of any sort since winning the Japanese Championships in late December had been a 38-second message on the Japanese Skating Federation’s website, in which Hanyu ...

However, Hanyu has long been a crowd favourite in ... Many users praised his attempt to land a world-first quad axel in his free skate routine -after a poor result in his earlier short programme ...

Japan’s “Ice Prince” Yuzuru Hanyu must recover from serious injury and see off the challenge of American quad sensation Nathan Chen if he is to claim the first back-to-back Olympic men’s ...