Q 01/05

In 2012 Hanyu moved to a Toronto club named for skating, curling and which other sport?

A) Cricket

B) Tennis

C) Golf

D) Rowing

Answer · why

A) Cricket

Cricket. When he joined the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, his mother moved to Canada with him while the rest of the family stayed in Japa...

Q 02/05

Which relative did Hanyu follow onto the ice at four?

A) Sister

B) Brother

C) Mother

D) Father

Answer · why

A) Sister

His older sister Saya was already taking lessons at their local rink, and four-year-old Yuzuru wanted to do the same.

Q 03/05

Which chronic condition, diagnosed at age two, hampered Hanyu's stamina especially as a junior?

A) Anaemia

B) Diabetes

C) Epilepsy

D) Asthma

Answer · why

D) Asthma

Asthma, school and scarce ice time held his training to an hour or two a day until he moved to Canada, where it doubled.

Q 04/05

Which sport did Hanyu's father, a junior high school teacher, recommend to him instead of skating?

A) Sumo

B) Judo

C) Football

D) Baseball

Answer · why

D) Baseball

Baseball. His father had advised a school baseball club; Yuzuru stuck with skating, though he considered switching to baseball when practice got tough...

Q 05/05

Which Olympic silver medallist did a young Hanyu challenge to a spin battle when the star visited his home town?

A) Evgeni Plushenko

B) Stephane Lambiel

C) Brian Joubert

D) Johnny Weir

Answer · why

B) Stephane Lambiel

Stephane Lambiel, the 2006 Turin runner-up, was famed for his spins; Hanyu later wrote that taking him on made him resolve to improve his own.