Tag Archives: Daisuke Takahashi

2024 EduSport Trophy in Romania: the dance edition. Zoom in on a historic debut

EduSport Trophy in Otopeni, Romania, has always been about single skating, with all its categories – the six previous editions are all here to prove it. And while the seventh edition was about single skating…

Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: following the gold fish

Taking the time to reassess Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi’s second season as a team – the one in which they missed the much-desired trip to the Olympics, but went to Four Continents and Worlds…

2017 Worlds: the illustrated story of the men’s event

Three-year distance from his first gold medal at Worlds, Yuzuru Hanyu got crowned again – in the presence of thousands of fans and their loud enthusiasm in Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. It was sheer joy…

2017 Worlds: a journey through the highlights (and the shadows) of the pairs event

At the end of day one at 2017 Worlds, no less than 11 pairs, out of the 28 performing in Hartwall Arena, had scored minimum 70 points – an indicator speaking mountains of the competition…

#TheCave. My ode to practice rinks

Simple as that: the practice rink at 2017 Worlds, aka #TheCave, holds some of my best memories from the week in Helsinki – so I decided to honor it in a story. Can you blame…