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Deniss' participation at Europeans seems to be safe.

It's a beautiful picture of Mai, and her kimono is lovely. I hope she had a great Coming of Age day. Thinking of her often and hope she gets better soon.

It's nice to know that he had some well-deserved rest after Nationals.

I haven't seen this picture before. It was taken in the summer of 2010 when Natalia Bestemianova and Igor Bobrin visited Japan.

Stolbova performing without her partner at Plushy's show. There are many other fancams from the same show on this Youtube channel.

Yes, there'll be a thread, we'll open it soon!

Congratulations to Yuzu.

The ISU has revised the TES minimums for the World Championships and they raised it for the Ladies, in the SP from 29 to 30, in the Free Skating, from 49 to 51. https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications/23319-isu-communication-2302/file 12 Ladies are affected after the changes, most of them don't have either the SP or FS minimum now. One of them is Dasa Grm, who is not happy about the change. I think it's really late to change the minimum in the middle of the season, since most of them reach the required points earlier in the Season, in Challenger or smaller events, and not later, shortly before Worlds.

Thanks for everyone's patience when the site was down, hopefully it won't happen often. About Music with Wings~: it's sold online on Axelstore again It's really considerate that there's a proxy option for international fans to buy the guidebook on their site which just makes things easier. The content looks really interesting with Yuzu's thoughts about the music he's skated to so far, and words from the choreographers as well...not to mention the 80 pictures. And the design is beautiful, it's like CiONTU 2.0 It looks like the concerts were very well attended, too- I can't wait for the broadcast! And about Sakura Pooh/yuzu Pooh/etc: as long as Yuzu doesn't see a penny from those products I don't really agree with Disney's marketing strategy tbh...

I didn't see it coming either since Shoma seemed to be back to better form compared to GP Series and he usually does lots of competitions in a season. No competition between Nationals and Worlds seems to be a long time, though he might choose to do a senior B competition later like he did in 2017. Challenge Cup could be a choice in February, it is also close to Switzerland.

Entries for European Championships are out http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111953.htm Pairs have almost 2x as many entries as last season. Ladies and ID have more entries too, only the men have less.

2011 European Champion Sarah Meier gave birth to her first child yesterday. Congratulations!

Cocaine can show up in the system for approx. 2-3 days (given that the sample they used was urine), so I think it'll be difficult for her to prove that she used it outside of competition. Her career is likely over, whether she gets banned or not...

It is a prohibited stimulant according to the World Anti-Dopping Agency: https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/wada_2020_english_prohibited_list_0.pdf

I also wonder what happened with him and TomZ last season and now with Tammy. Lee Barkell has quite a few bigger names now in Granite Club. I think it won't be easy to get back to shape after 4 months without competing and with a new coach (not sure how much time he spent with Hamada in the past months, probably not much), but we'll see I guess.

Laurine Lecavelier has tested positive for cocaine

Oh. I didn't expect this. o_o

Wakaba Higuchi has turned 19 years old today. Good luck to her at 4CC and Worlds!

Does anyone else have the same problem?