St. Petersburg, Feb 10, Taras Barabash. The Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova noted in a conversation with that the Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, trying to make a four-turn Axel at the Beijing Olympics, acted in the name of the development of world figure skating. On Thursday, American figure skater Nathan Chen won a gold medal in the men's single skating at the Olympics. Hanyu fell while trying for the first time in history to perform an Axel in four and a half turns in a free program. The Japanese took fourth place. «Hanyu understood that he could fall on his head and on his hand, he could fall anyway. But the man had a goal, and he went towards it. This is precisely the development of figure skating. Hanyu wanted to show that you can jump and quadruples, and four and a half turns,» Tarasova said.
