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I watched a few minutes of Alexia Paganini's instagram live today and someone asked her about her opinion on Yuzu's 4A and she said (paraphrasing) that it is great that Yuzu is doing it, she respects him and if she were so successful like him with 2 OGMs she'd also do something that she really wants to achieve. It was nice to hear it from her. 😊

Fingers crossed for Olga in Beijing. Her grandmother and mother make costumes for her. And her German is excellent!

Armenia Ice Dance - Tina Garaberdian/Simon Senecal Australia: Men - Brendan Kerry Women - Kailani Craine Austria: Women - Olga Mikutina Pairs - Miriam Zielger/Severin Kiefer Azerbaijan: Men - Vladimir Litvintsev Women - Ekaterina Ryabova Belgium: Women - Loena Hendrickx Bulgaria: Women - Alexandra Feigin Czech Republic: Men - Michal Brezina Women - Eliska Brezinova Pairs - Jelizaveta Zukova/Martin Bidar Ice Dance - Natalie Tascherlova/Filip Taschler Estonia: Men - Aleksandr Selevko Women - Eva-Lotta Kiibus Finland: Ice Dance - Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis France: Men: Kevin Aymoz, Adam Siai Him Fa Ice Dance: Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron Georgia: Men: Morisi Kvitelashvili Women: Anastasiia Gubanova Pairs: Karina Safina/Luka Berulava Ice Dance: Maria Kazakova/Georgy Reviya Germany: Women - Nicole Schott Pairs - Minerva Hase/Nolan Seegert Ice Dance - Katharina Müller/Tim Dieck Men - TBA - Team Event only (it'll be decided on 18 January but Paul Fentz is nominated) Great Britain: Women - Natasha McKay Ice Dance - Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson Hungary: Pairs - Ioulia Chtchetinina/Mark Magyar Israel: Men - Alexey Bychenko Pairs - Hailey Kops/Evgeni Krasnopolski Italy: Men: Matteo Rizzo, Daniel Grassl Women: Lara Naki Gutmann (Team Event only) Pairs: Nicole Della Monica/Matteo Guarise, Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini Ice Dance: Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri Latvia: Men - Deniss Vasiljevs Lithuania: Ice Dance - Paulina Ramanauskaite/Deividas Kizala (?) Mexico: Men - Donovan Carrillo Netherlands: Women - Lindsay van Zundert Poland: Women - Ekaterina Kurakova Ice Dance: Natalia Kaliszek/Maksym Spodyriev Spain: Ice Dance - Olivia Smart/Adria Diaz Pairs - Laura Barquero/Maurizio Zandron Sweden: Men: Nikolaj Majorov Women: Josefin Taljegard Switzerland: Men: Lukas Britschgi Women: Alexia Paganini

Emily Bausback has retired from competitive skating https://www.instagram.com/p/CYt4xn0FGz9/?utm_medium=copy_link

Hi everyone, all the talk about US Nats performances including Chen's and Dmitriev's 4A attempt belongs to the US Nationals thread, please post about them here Thank you!

Papadakis/Cizeron will miss Europeans to protect themselves from Covid ahead of Beijing Olympics

Yes, in 2015, so it was a long time ago. And yeah without a doubt, figure skating isn't the same without audience.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think it's that good that tickets will be allocated. It's okay to allocate certain % of the tickets to public companies/sponsors but that if none (or almost none) of the fans will be able to go is just sad. It's always good if there are fans who know what to look for in the performance, when to clap, when to stay completely silent etc. And it'd have been great for Chinese fanyus to go the Olympics and give their support for Yuzu. It's been seven years since Yuzu skated in China for the last time and his fans there are always so loyal and supportive...they'd have deserved to support him in the arena.

I haven't heard about Ting Cui since summer where she competed at Skate Milwaukee. She had lot of problems with her jumps then... There is a promising junior Lindsay Thorngren who did junior GPs this season and went to Warsaw Cup too, plus there's Amber as well...But I think Alysa, Mariah and Karen have the most chances to go.

Bradie Tennell has withdrawn from Nationals due to ongoing foot injury https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKwuCmMPol/?utm_medium=copy_link

Happy New Year! I wish everyone a healthy and happy 2022! May Yuzuru be healthy and make his dreams come true in the year of tiger.

😊 This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

I'm not too fond of his hairstyle this time and while the costume itself (the colour and details) is pretty, it feels like the chocker doesn't really go well together with the costume. The costume also reminds of Otonal a lot and to this piece of music maybe something else would go better. re the chocker: I think because of the deep V-neck cut without a choker Yuzu's neck would look even longer so they wanted to make it look a bit shorter. Which is fine, but the overall result could be much better imo But it is really not the most important after how wonderfully skated to this great program.

Regina Schermann will represent Hungary at European Championships according to the selection criteria (2 best results of Budapest Trophy+Volvo Cup+4 Nations Championships). http://hunskate.hu/hirek/szovetseg/4-nemzet-bajnoksaga-eremeso-a-szombati-zaronapon

So it's confirmed Yuzu will participate at Nationals! Ah, this week will be such an emotional rollercoaster but I'm here for it! I'm very curious to see what the changes will be in the choreography in Ten to chi to and how the layout will look like, and also very excited to see his short program (though it's TBD on Fuji TV's website ). I hope Yuzu will have a great weekend, and that he'll have skates that he'll be satisfied with, but first and foremost I wish him to stay healthy and well. I can't really wait to see him compete again, it's been such a long time. I missed seeing him so much in these past months, it is just never the same without him but the drought is finally over this week. The 24th will be so busy because that's Christmas day for us here, with lots of preparations for the evening where we have family dinner. On top of that we also renovate the house and I should clean a lot, too but won't have much time until Friday because I work until Thursday. At least thankfully the last groups of men's SP will be midday/early afternoon on Friday, not in the evening On the 26th I'll arrange family lunch...later in the afternoon or if that's not possible I will hide in the bedroom and watch the free skate

Sui/Han brought back the quad twist in a test event in China. Source: x I think their 3S is not so reliable so they might have want a plus against M/G and others even if they make a mistake on the jump.

Thank you to the whole team for organising the streaming party! It was very nice to read all the warm messages to Yuzu Happy birthday to Yuzu once again

I wish I could join in the afternoon, but it is a working day for me and I'm too busy. 😪 Hope everyone will enjoy the streaming party 💕 ETA: ah I realised it's tomorrow! Maybe I will make it then!

It seems there won't be Nationals in China? Maybe there will only be a skate off between the 3 skaters in the men and ladies. Anyway it's nice to know Han Yan is still competing, though the federation will probabpy sent Boyang to the Olympics.

It was obvious at the Rostelecom Cup that the Schindler's list program wasn't really working. If Mishin knew that the free program wouldn't be on the same level as The White Crow then maybe it was the plan from beginning that they'd bring back the program later. In this way Kolyada could get even higher PCS than before (especially if he skates clean) because everyone knows the White Crow is a better program.

I won't miss the overscoring and the subsequent media hype of certain skaters that usually happens, but I feel bad for some skaters (Rika and Ryuichi, Kaori, to name a few)-, and it's a bit strange to think about GPF is canceled while other competitions with a lot more skaters like Golden Spin, or Santa Claus Cup with more than 300 competitiors happen these days. But governments act differently and better cancel this than other, much bigger competitions.