Tag Archives: Mao Asada Inside Skating

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…

Intriguing and addictive: Mao Asada’s programs for this season

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…

2015 Grand Prix Final: “Bellissima, bravissima Mao!”

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…