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.

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 ...

Tomonobu Sakurai, a professor of exercise physiology at Toin University of Yokohama, analyzed Hanyu’s attempted quad axel at the Japan Figure Skating Championships in December. “His axis is ...

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 ...

Hanyu's jump was short of half a turn to complete a quadruple axel, which is such a difficult jump that no skater has ever landed one in an official competition. Still, Hanyu, 27, won the Japan ...

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. Hanyu. Yikes -- he singles the opening quad salchow, a major ...

"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 ...

While he did not successfully land the quad axel that he set as a goal at the Beijing Winer Olympics, the International Skating Union recognized Hanyu as the first to attempt the jump in an ISU ...

Hanyu sustained the ankle injury in practice at the Games, trying the quadruple Axel, which he fell on in the free program in Beijing. “(Hanyu’s) sprain of the right ankle joint injured at the ...

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 ...

Hanyu told reporters he had gone into the Games ... as one of the Games' highlights with buzz building around the quad Axel or "4A" attempt in his performance to "Ten to Chi to" or "Heaven and ...

triple axel and quad lutz-triple toeloop combo. The lutz is the most difficult quad jump being done out there, and performing it that late in his program gave Chen bonus points. He set a new world's ...