htmlOn July 19, the topic #Yuzuru Hanyu will not retire# has become a hot search on Weibo. According to Japanese media reports on the 19th, Japanese figure skating star Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement later that day and will switch to the professional figure skating field.
Kyodo News reported that internal insiders confirmed the news that Yuzuru Hanyu would retire. The front page of the paper media "Dianzi Sports" used the title "Hanyu retired" to review his brilliant career in a full page and revealed the news that he would switch to the professional circle.
At 5 pm local time on the 19th, Yuzuru Hanyu will hold a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo. According to Japanese media reports, he is likely to announce his retirement at the press conference.
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At the beginning of this month, Yuzuru Hanyu also hinted that he would not retire. At that time, he left a brief message on the website of the Japanese Skating Association, saying: "I will still do my best this season to achieve higher goals."
It is understood that in Japan, the name Hanyu Yuzuru has become synonymous with figure skating, and the surrounding products related to him often cause rush purchases as soon as they are released. Due to too many people booking online, the Japanese Post Office sales website was paralyzed. As some public opinion speculated that Yuzuru Hanyu might announce his retirement, the prices of related products have increased significantly on e-commerce websites, and even newspapers with photos of Yuzuru Hanyu were hyped up to more than 70 times the original price.
Hanyu Yuzuru won the men's singles skating championship twice in a row at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, and he ranked only fourth in the Beijing Winter Olympics. On May 27, Yuzuru Hanyu participated in an exhibition match at Makuhara Gymnasium in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. This was his first public appearance on the ice rink after the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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