Farewell, Mao Asada. Farewell and Thank You
April 10, 2017: Mao Asada announces official retirement from competitive skating. In just a couple of sentences on her website, she ends a fruitful career that spanned over 15 years – she won the Japanese…
For the first couple of seconds you only hear the cameras’ shutter buttons being pressed, and the piano. And see a feathery, black dress twirling and twizzling, and running away with your attention. Just like…
It’s the end of the second day of competition in Barcelona, one hour before midnight, and the press conference after the ladies’ short program has just finished – when this exuberant Italian journalist approaches Mao…