Both champions won by wide margins over the second-place finishers.
American Vincent Zhou and Japanese teenager Mana Kawabe are both in second place heading into the free skate.
“Everything is improving now and technically spiritual,” Uno said. “The most important thing I have practiced is the quadruple salchow.”
Kagiyama was nothing short of spectacular in his Grand Prix of Italy free skate to music from “Gladiator” en route to victory.
“I have been working hard for the NHK Trophy, but I suffered a fall and got injured. I’m very disappointed,” said the two-time Olympic champion skating...
Their pairs figure skating medal was Japan’s first on the GP circuit since Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran claimed the silver at the NHK Trophy in...
With all of the variables that skaters have had to deal with during the pandemic, it was a respectable start for Kagiyama, the favorite to fill...
Orser and Tracy Wilson will try to refine Kihira’s jump arsenal, which includes a quadruple salchow, so she can compete with the Russians.
Medal hopeful Japan will face defending champion U.S. in a rematch of the 2019 worlds.
Coach Yuji Iizuka’s squad will be looking to improve on its eighth-place finish at the 2019 worlds in Finland, where it lost to the U.S. 4-0...
“The competition was so special and so fun for me. During skating it was like skating inside a dream,” Miyahara recalled.
The JSF will say the decision is all about safety, but that doesn’t wash with me. This is all about nobody wanting to take responsibility in...
