Two-time Olympic champion Hanyu ends his sporting career

Figure skating fans around the world were shocked by the decision of two-time Olympic champion and two-time world figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu to end his sporting journey on the ice. However, the skater also noted at a press conference that he would not give up trying to perform a clean quadruple axel and create his own ice show.

Alexei Yagudin told Match TV that Hanyu had had a brilliant career, but everything comes to an end. And Maxim Kovtun said that together with Hanyu a whole era is gone from figure skating.