Two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu did a quad axel in training before the Japanese Championships. Reported by journalist Jackie Wong in Twitter.
The skater performed a jump on two legs and with an under-spin, but was able to avoid falling. The Japanese planned to jump the axel at one of the stages of the Grand Prix of the current season, but was forced to withdraw from the competition due to injury.
At the moment, not a single athlete has been able to cleanly execute a quadruple axel. The only figure skater in history who attempted to perform a jump in a competition was Russian Artur Dmitriev. However, the athlete could not land the jump even in training.
Alexei Mishin, previously honored coach of the USSR in figure skating, who worked with two-time Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko, assessed the prospect of athletes performing a quadruple axel. He called the element unattainable for all skaters in the world and clarified that no one can purely perform a quadruple axel during his lifetime.
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