Yuzuru Hanyu feels the pressure and happiness of competing with rivals. (2ページ目)

In the Grand Prix Final in 2015After winning the Grand Prix Final in 2015 with a perfect performance, Hanyu talked about Fernández. When Hanyu started his free skate after scoring 110.95 points in the short program, this reporter was feeling more anxiety than expected.

Hanyu confessed that he was very tired before his free skate. As he always says, it is extremely difficult to complete both the short program and free skate without mistakes. If Hanyu had done so, his total score would have been more than the 322.40 points he scored at the NHK Trophy in November. But seeing his movement in the official training and considering the pressure he must have been under, I thought it would be hard for Hanyu to repeat that record performance.

Even when Hanyu perfectly executed the quadruple Salchow he had failed in the six-minute training and a quadruple toe loop, my anxiety remained.

I moved between relief and anxiety as he completed consecutive jumps and finally settled upon relief when Hanyu finely completed a triple Lutz, which he had failed at the Autumn Classic International and Skate Canada in the early part of the season.