TOKYO — After winning two Olympic gold medals, Yuzuru Hanyu wants to master a quadruple axel. “No one in competition has achieved successful quadruple axel jumps and there are very few people actually practicing even during training,” Hanyu said. He dropped his head to the podium, and said a quadruple axel is like jumping rope four times while revolving twice with one’s eyes closed. Scientists say humans can go as far as quintuple, Hanyu said, and his childhood coach is encouraging him to go for it. “I bet my life for this gold medal,” the 23-year-old Hanyu, who returned home on Monday, told the packed news conference.

Source: National Post February 27, 2018 09:20 UTC