Growing up i always loved ice skating ,found this sport so artistic ,classy ,emotional but i never was a real fan ,i mean i didn't know the rules well neither the skaters ,yuri on ice was the reason i became a fan of this sport !
After yoi ,i remember watching vidéos on YouTube on pair skating i became a big fan of gabriella and guillaume cizeron ,than hanyu watched his performance in sochi 2014 ,and plushenko team event n his old programs ,it was an interesting ride to understand this sport more .
2018 winter olympics first ice skating event i watched live "online lol " , i was so happy he won again what a legend ! Since then i try to not skip any ice skating event !
Alina zagitova also caught my attention since then she is my fav .
So this is just an appreciation post to one of my fav athletes ever (next to plushenko and rafael nadal "am a huge tennis fan my fav sport ")
PS:lets not forget he is the reason that yuri on ice happened , the project was planned since 2010 but because ice skating wasn't a famous sport in japan, it wasn't accepted by any studio ,yuzuru winning gold in sochi made ice skating popular in japan ,and yoi was given a chance to happen !