Coaches Reflections
BRIAN ORSER
Were you surprised that Yuzuru decided to leave the competitive arena?
I don’t know if I was surprised. I was feeling that maybe after the 2022 Olympics he might re-evaluate what he was doing. I got a call the night before, so I knew what was going on.
In my opinion, he has done everything you could possibly do in the sport. Now he is shifting gears. He still wants to contribute in a very athletic way, but now we are not going to see him at these eligible competitions, which will be unusual. But he has done everything.
What part do you think injuries played in his decision?
He always wanted to move the sport forward but was always injuring himself whenever he was working on a new technical element. The injury before PyeongChang (in 2018) was on a quad Lutz and this time it was on a quad Axel.
He keeps striving to be better. That is just
