(Reuters) – Twice Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is not going to participate within the World Figure Skating Championships as a result of he has not recovered from an ankle injury sustained on the Beijing Winter Games, the Japan Skating Federation stated on Tuesday.
Hanyu sustained the ankle injury in apply on the Games, attempting the quadruple Axel, which he fell on within the free programme in Beijing.
“(Hanyu’s) sprain of the fitting ankle joint injured on the Beijing Olympics has not been utterly healed,” the federation stated in an announcement, including that Four Continents bronze medallist Kao Miura would substitute Hanyu on the March 21-27 occasion in Montpellier, France.
Hanyu gained the Olympic gold in Sochi in 2014 and Pyeongchang in 2018. He completed fourth on the 2022 Games.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru, enhancing by Pritha Sarkar)
