“He is in a completely different status than I am as a skater, I will always respect that.”
“I always say a multigenerational athlete like that, that’s like all-universe status, that’s difficult to find,”
"To be able to have a honor to compete against him well compete with him, not even against him it's just a dream come true for me."
"I really respect him because he has wonderful jumps, wonderful axis for the jumps and then you know he can play with the music. It feels really good when I'm watching him."
The Rivalry Cum Respect
As we all know that there's huge rivalry between the two. They both are arguably the G.O.A.T. We are blessed to live in an era with two incredible athletes who have revolutionized the sport of figure skating in only a few years: Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen. Their styles are polar opposites, but they have two things in common: insane talent and genuine respect for each other.