Japan's Mao Asada, 23, is the 2010 Winter Olympic silver medalist and one of the favorites in the women's figure skating competition in Sochi. Allar's selection has no impact whatsoever on the team's ...

Crash Course: Mao Asada is one of the most decorated figure skaters in the world and a national hero in Japan. She has been skating competitively since the 2002-03 season and plans to retire after the ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) Mao Asada is still trying triple axels. More important at the Sochi Olympics, perhaps, is the renewed focus on the rest of her jumps. The Japanese star now does just one triple axel ...

TOKYO -- Japanese figure skater Mao Asada will take a season off from competitive skating and says there is a 50 percent chance she will return to the sport. Mao Asada said there is a 50 percent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's figure skater Mao Asada speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Asada announced ...

'Kim Yuna rival' Mao Asada (35) revealed that she is still beautiful these days. Mao was photographed watching the All-Japan Figure Skating Championships at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, ...

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada — Less than two months before the 2006 Olympics, Mao Asada of Japan became the first woman to land two triple-axel jumps in the same program. And Asada wasn’t a ...

Mao Asada is becoming an attractive young woman. I don't think it's so unusual for female figure skaters to go through a period of adjustment in their skating as their bodies change.

One of Japan's most popular athletes should have known she couldn't leave quietly: Mao Asada's press conference Wednesday to officially announce her retirement from figure skating attracted some 350 ...

The latest update on Mao Asada (36) of Japan, who was considered the rival of figure skater Kim Yuna during her competitive career, has been reported. It is known that she has established an academy ...