Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi expressed hope Tuesday that more skaters in their country will take up ice dance and pairs. A day after announcing their retirement in a social media post, the duo told a press conference in Tokyo that the training environment for the two events has created a gap between Japan and the world's leading nations. Takahashi's transition to ice dance in 2020 cast a spotlight on a figure skating discipline that had previously received little Japanese media attention.

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