No doubt the reason True Visions is not showing the Winter Olympics is because it regards the broadcast fees as too high. Maybe I'm in a very small minority but I love watching winter sports, especially the ice-skating. 4 years ago we were all mesmerised when the pencil-thin and gorgeously cute teenage Japanese skater, Yuzuru Hanyu, took the Gold Medal in the Individual Freestyle event.
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Yuzuru Hanyu - Photo: Getty Images
Now there are many more young Asians in the event, including the USA's 18-year old Nathan Chen. Called the Quad King - on account of his dazzling quadruple spin jumps - Chen was tipped to be Hanyu's main rival, the more so as he beat him in two competitions last year. Then Hanyu fell awkwardly on his right ankle early last November, a serious accident that kept him out of all skating for 2 months and seriously jeopardised his hopes of a second Olympic Gold.
If anyone saw Hanyu yesterday on one of the websites, he took to the ice and skated the most amazing, energetic, flawless, graceful and beautifully sublime Short Programme to Chopin's Ballade No. 1. It was as close to perfection as you'll get. Not surprisingly he beat the Olympic record.
As for Nathan Chen. nerves had been obvious in the Team Event earlier in the week. Yesterday he fell on every jump. But in the Second Round today he did something no-ne has ever done before - he landed no less than 6 Quad jumps (although on the final one he briefly had to touch the ice with his hand) to bring the roaring crowd to its feet and put him into medal contention.
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Nathan Chen - Photo: Getty Images
Last on to the ice was Hanyu. Another flawless performance! Not quite as many marks as Chen but the combined totals gave him the Gold. He thus becomes the first back-to-back Olympic Skating Gold Medalist since 1952. Chen hauled himself up to 5th. But his day will come.
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Yuzuru Hanyu - Photo: Getty Images
Just out of interest, Hanyu trains in Toronto with the openly gay skater Brian Orser and often wears costumes by a gay designer. That has led to lots of speculation about his being gay. There have even been tales of romance with a fellow skater in Orser's stable. Given his massive following of young Japanese female fans, should he happen to be gay it's unlikely he'll come out - for quite some time.