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I am worried about Kostornaia that her injury heals slowly that's why she keeps her SP. Curious about Haein's SP, love her music choice. Nathan choses a slow (and to me taste, a bit cheesy) song this time, I wonder if he'll skate to the French or English version of La Boheme (I haven't read any reports about it yet). Pic here: https://article.auone.jp/detail/1/6/12/17_12_r_20190727_1564213341884899 Not sure if this costume remains for competitions, but it looks similar to his first Caravan costume, vest + white shirt.

There were 38 gold medal ties so far at the Olympics, 29 at the Summer Games, other 8 at the Winter Olympics. Most of the time in gymnastics, sometimes in swimming at the Summer Games, and it happened in different sports in winter sports, including luge, bobsleigh, alpine skiing etc and once in figure skating too. (Today I read a story about a swimmer who lost the Olympic gold by 0.001 second in 1988 - imagine that! At that time it wasn't a tie, but it'd be today because times are measured to only two decimal places these days) In FS, it's clear if there's a tie in SP or FS, then TES and PCS counts, but it's more complicated if the total score is the same: The mathematical chance for any ties in fs is very low though, it was already a big surprise that Zagitova and Medvedeva had the same score in the free skate...but a chance for a total score tie, especially for medalists is like 0? I don't know what it could be. Only Yuzu knows it

I won't repeat what others have already said so far - if there's no media day this year threre is a good reason for it, and as long as he is healthy and he enjoys what he does, I am okay with it. I am glad that ACI has been confirmed though, we will see him already mid-September.

He performed well at Worlds this year, considering his situation. And he won both of his GP events with Origin, for the first time in his senior career. LGC was a difficult program and even if he had problems with it at Worlds or 4CC, he skated to it very well at GPF, and with the good score there he was able to win his fourth consecutive GPF gold medals. He also landed the first ever 4Lo during SP at ACI that season. Sometimes I am superstitious, too but it is not related to his hair To me his hair looks different in Seimei, Chopin, or H&L anyway.

Congratulations to Daria and Misha. Now I understand why Misha visited Budapest a couple of times in the past years, it was during the time when Daria skated with Magyar.

Thank you very much for sharing it. It's so beautiful! Amazing job!

It's early and Gogolev has a new coaching team but now his programs are empty without any complexity. And this with just triples, 2As. What is he going to do if he'll add quads and a triple Axel?

Gogolev's new free skate is a medley of Peter Gabriel songs (The Rhythm of the Heat, Darkness and Red Rain): ETA: On Youtube: Choreo by.... .... yeah, you guessed it right, Shae-Lynn.

Same here, I vividly remember those painful hours last year. It is still hard to process that he is gone. Rest in peace, Denis.

The pictures shouldn't be anywhere because it would be best if everyone respected his and his family's privacy.

It's better if those pictures remain on weibo. It's sad that someone follows him and his mother in Canada and takes pictures of them.

I still have one bar Ghana chocolate that I bought last February when I was in Korea. I bought it only because of Yuzu! I would like to melt it into a Hot chocolate like he did. Anyone knows the recipe? (I am sure I read one before but I don't know anymore where...).

Team Japan is going to be interesing! Kao apparently jumped 4T and 4S at the JGP selection competition, so I'm curious if he'll get a spot. It'd be the first time that Shun, Kao and Yuma compete against each other at JGP. I hope Nastya will be fine, too. It'd be great to see her in JGP series. Tarusina also stays in junior it seems. I'm also looking forward to Sinitsyna - she's a lovely skater. Valieva's and Alysa Liu's debut will be ofc exciting to watch. I also hope Alysa will focus more on the quality of her technique and overall improvement of her skating.

Han Yan's free skate:

Samodurova's new programs: SP: Bamboleo by Gipsy Kings FS: Roxanne from Moulin Rouge

New interview with Medvedeva on ISU's site https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/news/interviews-fsk/12658-evgenia-medvedeva-rus-embraces-changes-in-her-skating-and-her-life?templateParam=15

Only a bit more than a month and we'll have the first JGP Event! The assignments for JGP Courchevel will come out within a week or so (deadline is Friday this week). There are many skaters who're turning senior this season - the 3As of course, then You Young, Yelim Kim, Ting Cui, Koshiro Shimada, Mitsuki Sumoto, Tomoki Hiwatashi, Conrad Orzel, Camden Pulkinen, Roman Savosin, Ice Dancers Shevchenko/Eremenko, Lajoie/Lagha and Pairs JWC gold medalists Mishina/Galliamov so we won't see them in the juniors next season. But there'll be others who's not moving up and staying (at least partially) - Grassl will do the JGP series probably, Petr Gummenik and Andew Torgashev will also stay junior. I will also be curious how Gogolev will skate next season now that he's training with Raf. Samsonov, Eteri's wunderkid will debut in the juniors, he just turned 14 two days ago. I'm mostly curious about Shun, finally he will also debut in the JGP series should have happened a long time ago tbh .He'll have three quads and two 3As in the free skate (Romeo and Juliet ) - which will be a big weapon! I'm really looking forward how he'll do, and can't wait to cheer for him.

It's possible. The translation is short and maybe something got lost in it.

No worries, I moved some posts in the other thread and hid those that were duplicate. There are some promising music choices in Team Japan! Matrix could be a good choice for Kaori because it's modern and upbeat, also well-known but not really a warhorse (at least it was not used in the past few years too often). Not sure if this piece is Yuna's SP music, but if yes, it's very pretty: I'm curious about The Artist for Koshiro, the SP is very lyrical. Sherlock Holmes could be a good choice for Keiji. I am a bit confused because he said earlier that his choreos would be done in August? He doesn't talk about the music here but the programs. Maybe the basics of the programs are ready and he'd finish the choreo with them in August? I don't know.

New xylitol magnets and four different A4 pictures Not a coincidence that last year's and the new Ice Jewels Photobook have these two colours It was in his calculations!

I accidentally found this post from last year so I'm quoting it here on the occasion that Han and his glorious 3A is back

He really picks extremely fast and so light so that you can barely see it. If you can see the entry then it's easy to recognize the jump too. While doing the jump, his body position and also the rhythm of the jump looks different too. His left leg in 4S looks more bent, during 4T it's more straight. Some comparison from Olympic practice: 4S 4T [own gifs] In original speed: 4S, 4T

Thank you for the translation! I hope his work with Camerlengo was fruitful, the bits they showed were very promising. It's just so nice to see him improving and growing as a skater. If he can land 4Ts and 4S next season hopefully the results will come, too. Good luck Sota!