Yuzuru Hanyu's present location and the future December 10th 18:30

The line of sight sometimes is strong and sharp, and sometimes it is gentle and calm.
The words you speak are always sincere.
Take the question of the listener from the front and try to express your thoughts accurately.
That word sometimes makes us feel relieved and sometimes thinks deeply.
Yuzuru Hanyu who finished the Grand Prix final in Turin, Italy. From his words this season, I will explore the present location of Yuzuru Hanyu and the future ahead.
(Sports News Department reporter Ryohei Taya)

“I ca n’t be Yuzuru Hanyu”

This season Hanyu often thought about when he was young.
As I was 9 years old, I seemed like a “lump of confidence” and continued to encourage Yuzuru Hanyu. And the current “muddy smell” is trying to respond to that thought.

“When I was a kid, I was very honest with my heart and love.
At that time, I was told, “You, you still don't.”
My roots are to really skate what I really want to do and what I can confidently do.
If you become an adult now and you think you can do anything when you are small, you can finally say “Yu Hanyu”.
That is my ideal image. ''

"I was a really muddy person and I haven't been a person who has been able to convince myself for dexterity.
I've been piling up over and over and polishing, and I've managed to get here.
I can imagine the ultimate polished Yuzuru, but I haven't realized it.
I spend a lot of time thinking I can't become Yuzuru Hanyu. ''

“I am overwhelmingly strong”

Although Hanyu has achieved the Olympic championship, he always aims for growth and maintains high motivation and continues to face himself.
What is the root of that motivation?

“After all, I want to win.
I lost the world championship, which was the biggest match (last season), and I couldn't win even if I thought I was out.
That regret is now my motivation.
I want to relieve this regret.
I always want to be overwhelmingly strong. ''

"My dream was Sochi's money, Pyeongchang's money, and I didn't draw any further.
Whether you really want to be strong now, you want to be overwhelming or overwhelming as an active duty thanks to your expectations. ''

“Because there is pressure…”

Standing on the link and continuing to fight is accompanied by pain.
If a player has achieved the Olympic championship, there will be great expectations and pressure from the surroundings.
However, it is said that because of the pressure, you can face pain.

“Sometimes it ’s painful and I want to run away or spill.
It ’s really hard, and I ’m driving to the point where I do n’t think I can make any more effort.
Still, even beyond that suffering, I want to make no mistakes.
I think that the driving force is the expectations of the people around me. "

“Things that seem to be responsible for not meeting expectations are very strong, and I want to meet somehow.
That is why there are many cases that are likely to be crushed.
After all, I think I have to do it in the game.
I think it's a pressure to be hard.
However, I think it really makes me want to respond to that pressure. ''

“Jump of the King”

This month's Grand Prix Final. Hanyu, who was second in the short program, suddenly repeated four-turn accelerator exercises on the link that he had set aside for free the next day.
In the game, a four-turn accelerator that no one has succeeded in the world.
I couldn't get ice, but the attitude to challenge the high walls was myself in my childhood.

“At the end of the short program, I thought it would be difficult to beat Nathan Chen.
Then, when I was young, when I saw myself, I felt like I was saying “I did something here with my chest stretched”.
When I thought something could be left here, I came up with a four-turn accelerator. ''

Since I talked to the 4-turn accelerator, my sincere thoughts about figure skating started.

“I think that even if I do my best with the 4-turn accelerator, I will add 5 points to my current score. Absent.
However, that doesn't make sense to skate in me.
For me, the four-turn accelerator is the “king's jump”.
There is a strong desire not only to jump but also to complete as a figure skater after doing a four-turn accelerator.

Yuzuru Hanyu's “Power of Words”

The Grand Prix Final missed the championship, but Hanyu is the world's top skater.
Many people are listening to his words, and the weight of one word is increasing.
What does he think about “words”?

“When I listen to music before the game, I always feel that the power of lyrics and the power of sound are tremendous.
I think the lyrics come in a lot, they become power, weight, sadness, and fun.
Because I feel that power, I think I have to be very careful with the words. ''

“Neither those who listen to their interviews, those who watch through TV, or the interviewers need to say anything that makes them sad.
If you try to say things that will ultimately make those people happy, happy, and forward, they will turn forward when they actually enter their ears.
I always think about that. ''

“After all, are you an expressor?
I think I like skating because I can't express it with words, I am "

High motivation that never loses.
Hanyu looks forward to the next step.
(Titles omitted)

Reporter of sports news department
Ryohei Taya