International Figure Skating

UNEXPECTED SUCCESS

or China’s Han Yan, competing at the 2021 World Championships was akin to making a comeback. The last time the popular skater contested a global event was in Boston in 2016, where he finished 26 in the short program and failed to make the cut for the free

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