Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan is stepping away from competitive figure skating, he said Tuesday.
Hanyu seemed to leave the door open to a possible return of some sort. However, most of his focus seemed to be on skating professionally in exhibitions.
"I'm not going to participate in competitions from now on," he said. "Of all the things I've done so far, I think I've gotten what I should have in terms of results from competitions. I also feel that I will no longer seek these kind of evaluations." Hanyu has little left to prove. He has been the world's most watched skater for a decade and the sport's standard for excellence. He was the first Asian man to win gold in Olympic figure skating.
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