(Reuters) – Yuzuru Hanyu’s hopes of successful a 3rd Olympic determine skating gold medal for Japan have suffered a blow after he pulled out of a match in Tokyo resulting from an ankle damage.
With the Beijing Winter Video games three months away, the nation’s skating federation mentioned the 26-year-old had suffered ankle ligament injury and would miss the Nov. 12-14 NHK Cup.
The 2022 Winter Olympics start on Feb. 4.
“I really feel very disenchanted that I used to be injured in only one fall,” Hanyu mentioned in an announcement.
“I’ll do my greatest to shorten the time to return to the competitors as a lot as doable via rehabilitation on the ice whereas controlling ache.”
Hanyu, who received gold within the males’s singles at Sochi 2014, additionally injured his ankle within the buildup to the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games, an damage which saved him off the ice for 2 months.
Nonetheless, he returned to health in time to grow to be the primary man in 66 years to win back-to-back https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-figs-m-idUSKCN1G104P determine skating titles.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, further reporting by Yuka Obayashi in Tokyo; Enhancing by Peter Rutherford)
