Yuko Kavaguti and partner Alexander Smirnov holding up their bronze medals at last year’s Worlds. When a combination of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster upended Japan’s plans to host the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships, a Japanese-born skater who competes for Russia was touched in more ways than one. Yuko Kavaguti was scheduled to compete in the pairs competition in her homeland in late March. But the catastrophe […]