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2015 Europeans: with every year, Javier Fernandez gives Spain more reasons to celebrate

Until Javier Fernandez won his first European gold, in 2013, in Zagreb, there hadn’t been any Spanish male figure skater among the medalists of the European Championships since its inaugural edition in 1891, Hamburg. It…

2014 Grand Prix Final: my personal list of (mostly Japanese) joys

What a roller coaster of a week this has been – and I loved every second of it. Of course, through the thousands of seconds spent in Barcelona, at this year’s edition of the Grand…

Yuzuru Hanyu, the embodiment of joy, and a night to remember in Barcelona, at the Grand Prix Final

What if I told you that after the medals ceremony Yuzuru Hanyu went off-stage and, after giving an interview to a Japanese television, took off his gold medal and put it around Brian Orser’s neck?…