30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu

Sendai –

“You have no more than 30 minutes.”

That’s the stern reminder I’m given before being ushered into a room to speak with Japan’s “Ice Prince.”

The clock starts ticking, and the first six minutes are spent on a photo shoot in a conference room turned into a makeshift studio in his hometown of Sendai, about 350 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.