Tag Archives: Wenjing Sui and Cong Han

Wenjing Sui: “As a veteran athlete, I feel responsible – I want to be a source of strength, to help push the younger generation forward”

On June 6th, when the International Skating Union announced the highly anticipated Grand Prix assignments, many of us might have felt the need to double-check what they were seeing: Olympic champions Wenjing Sui and Cong…

Wenjing Sui and Cong Han. Olympic gold, to crown a fabulous career

Embed from Getty Images For once in the last couple of days, the noise surrounding the figure skating competition at 2022 Olympics fell silent – and all people, skating fans, observers and skaters altogether joined…

Torino 2019: the culmination of the Grand Prix Series. A photo-story.

We’ll start with a warning: this story features more than 200 photos of the 24 individual skaters, pairs and ice dance teams that qualified for this edition of the (senior) Grand Prix Final – so…

Yuzuru Hanyu: return with laurels at NHK Trophy

The last time Yuzuru Hanyu had competed in NHK Trophy was in November 2016, in Sapporo – he won the gold medal in Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena, more than 30 points over Nathan Chen,…

Hot & spicy skating in Chongqing, at 2019 Cup of China. Plus: the emotional comeback of Han Yan

Embed from Getty Images To the enthusiasm of the audience gathered in Chongqing arena, the fourth event of the Grand Prix Series had everything: the passion in Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ skate to “Too…