Tara Jevrosimovic
2/24/2014
7B Humanities
Mr. Calic
Yuzuru Hanyu and the Amazing New World
Record
Have you ever thought of things that
can go in the record book? Well, in these three paragraphs you will find out the
brand new broken record of a 19 year-old man.The new broken record in short
programme man’s figure skating, was set by Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu at the Sochi
2014 Winter Olympics. Hanyu served up a quad toe-loop, triple axel, and a
triple lutz-triple toe-loop combination. Those word probably don’t ring a bell
to most of the reader, but they represent the various body compositions on ice
skates.
Yuzuru was skating to the song
“Parisian Walkways” by Gary Moore, his performance was 3.93-points ahead of
Patrick Chan (of Canada) the three-time world champion (in men’s ice skating).The
young man was very proud of his ice magic, he said it himself. “I was just
trying to turn in the best performance I possibly could, and I did,” said Hanyu.
I was very, very surprised by the score.”
There were the top 5 places. Yuzuru
Hanyu (from Japan) was in first place with a total score 0f 280.09, he is also
the youngest contestant. Patrick Chan of Canada was second place with a total
score of 275.62. Denis Ten from Kazakhstan was third place with a total score
of 255.10. The fourth place went to Javier Fernández from Madrid/Spain, and the
fifth place went to Tatsuki Machida who is also from Japan, with a score of 253.42.
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