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    Shiseido Cup of China Ice Dance Free Dance
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    Shiseido Cup of China Pairs Short Program
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    Shiseido Cup of China Men Short Program
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    Shiseido Cup of China Ladies Short Program
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    GP Shiseido Cup of China Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
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    Pairs Short Program Internationaux de France de Patinage 2019 – Grenoble
  7. Bit late for this one but about TSL: I wouldn't have much of a problem if they were seen as what they are, the juicy tabloid show of the skating world. Instead they're seen as some kind of authority on quality and tech, mostly because of their name when people first get into the sport and start looking for information. Call them The Skating Scoop or something and I wouldn't care much. The Skating Lesson sounds like what they say is objective facts like lessons. I still wouldn't like them but at least they'd be on brand for what they are then. Now it's misleading until you really understand quite a bit about the sport.
  8. We know this person was at CoR the last two times Yuzu was there though, so most of our footage is from outside Japan. And we don't know about Yuzu's bodyguards and stuff because he doesn't release information about any of that, we just know about this woman because she has such distinct dressing and mannerisms.
  9. Yeah, it is odd. She seems to make no effort to not be noticed as the same stalker every time. And the way she does that tippytoe hurrying thing. Well between the stalker who is bad at being unnoticed and the ones who're good at stalking, I suppose this is actually easier to handle? Much easier to keep an eye on this one.
  10. lol One of those filter masks. The same one we've seen hurrying after him in airports and when he's walking from lobby to bus so often, we've seen her in so much footage.
  11. No idea, can't speculate. I don't think restraining orders can cross jurisdictions internationally though and she seems too close for any restraining order I've heard of. Very creepy, I wish she would stop and I wish we could do something. Ugh.
  12. I think everybody knows and they make sure she can't get close to Yuzu but she's always in public places and I don't think there's ever been a report of her actually doing anything that might get her in trouble - anything threatening, or physical contact. Pretty sure Yuzu's team knows but seriously it must be unsettling to have her following him around like this. Always a bit too close for comfort, but just far enough away for plausible deniability.
  13. Apparently that woman in the long coat and white mask was stalking Yuzu again.
  14. Between PR and UR, I would think UR hurts joints far more. I'd guess that since you can control your body more on takeoff, whatever you do during takeoff (unless you really wrench your joints around) causes less damage than landing problems - the wrenching of ankle for UR, the twisting of knee, stiffer knees that absorb too much of the shock. I think the solution is first to start compiling data already available plus establish a study with a medical research centre to follow athletes competing now and who've competed in the past, a long-term study that'll get us some answers. Second part of the solution is obvious to me, fix the judging. Use slow-mo and more cameras for PR, so that quads with 3.25 revolutions get scored as an over-rotated triple which should be less than a clean perfect triple. If there's less than 3.5 revolutions in toe jump, 3.25 in an edge jump, call it an overrotated triple. The 3.5 to 3.25 revolutions get called UR, hit heavily on the score. We don't need to see such quads, we can see good triples instead. They cause less damage, there would be fewer quads being tried, and the ones being tried will be those who have the right technique. @andchipzzThat is a good point, I didn't think of that. Yuzu has been collecting ISU sponsors, too. @shanshani Maybe ISU realised that a lot of people watch skating during the Olys and fall for a skater, so for them to capitalise on that and make money and popularise the sport, they need their Olympic champions to keep skating after that. A lot of people fell in love with Yulia, too, but she was too hurt to go on much longer and that really hurt interest in ladies. Casual Olympic viewers who get attracted to the sport by somebody like that don't become fans of the sport unless the skater keeps skating long enough to get them sucked into the sport itself. They have no idea what a treasure they have in Yuzu like that, two Olys and STILL going! Maybe a third now! Maybe sponsors have figured that out and have told them to stop pre-empting the dark day of r*****ment until it actually comes. Now there's a lot of novelty in the ladies jumping quads thing, but once six or seven of them start jumping quads, it's no longer novel, and they need more interest than just the 'oooooh look girls jump quads' thing.
  15. Well they're not as insulated as all that. I have seen an ISU official on another skating forum, for instance. And a lot of the newly appointed assistant tech specialists and so on are much younger and have social media presence. And after ACI and SkAm I read something about judges who were on social media turning comments off because they were spammed with tech questions? So people like Lakernik and Fabio might not have much of a clue but a lot of people do see what's going on. And longer term? I don't think Skate Canada is fully on board the American hype train. They have their own skaters to sell by Beijing. Scoring Yuzu properly is good for them for that, right now.
  16. I'm not questioning that. However he is held to different standards for scoring. They might shrug and whistle at empty programmes and give them 9s because that's what they do and in the same breath turn around and dock Yuzu points for it. If they didn't hold him to a different standard, the first two spins and the step sequence and the 3Lz and the solo 4T and the 4T combo in Origin should all have got +5s across the board, and I'd add the 4S to that except the axis wasn't perfect but it was perfect by other skater standards. All those elements hit the mandatory three bullets plus at least two of the extra bullets, and no negative bullets, so that's textbook +5. But he didn't get it. If Yuzu takes noticeable number of TR out, he might very well get penalised for it even if nobody else is.
  17. Could also be that they could see Yuzu was beginning to get pretty angry about all of this, angry enough to say something. Him being angry enough to go back into his cave and drill 4Lz and 4A until he can land them? Good for them all, plenty to talk about, pushes the sport forward. Him being angry enough to do exactly what the rules say he should and then actually talk about it and the scores and judging and technique? Not quite so good for them. They can't write his words off as inconsequential. There's pretty much nobody in the sport with more right to speak about all of that than he does. He is the global ambassador of the sport whether they like it or not, him saying all of this, even if not in English, actually matters.
  18. I think they realised that there's no point hyping up a rivalry if they push one so high and another so low that it sounds as if there is no rivalry. If you'd listened to them a couple of weeks ago, it sounded like Yuzu was done for and old news and stale bread. I think what they really want is a high stakes rivalry, and most of them have their corner, of course, but a rivalry is not high stakes if it doesn't sound like either could win. Also Yuzu didn't leave them much room to say anything negative. He knocked it out of the park. If he gives them the slightest excuse to call him old news has-been, they take it. He gave them none this time and they all want the clicks. There's no clickbait better than fanyus in figure skating. Plus fanyus are legion, maybe the reaction after ACI was brutal enough that they really didn't want to risk it again by making up false narratives. We did not really hold back on any social media. I think they might have rethought a few things, generally English-speaking fanyus have stuck with semi-polite (by Internet standards) technical talk, a lot of previously diplomatic fanyus did go 'oh, really, is that how you wanna play' directly at them after ACI.
  19. I wonder what would happen if Yuzu did take out a lot of his transitions. Would he get scores according to the letter of the rule unlike others who have no transitions? His jump consistency would definitely get better if he took out his transitions. Would that keep him at a constant 9.5-9.75 in components with easy +4 GOEs?
  20. Absolutely, he kinda said something along the lines of he was wondering if he was doing things wrong but the scores he got reassured him or something very roughly like that, that is good.
  21. But it totally is a relevant question though, we should never put our words in his mouth, However I think this does quite literally mean rotating on the ice.
  22. Well the way judging is going, they could probably submit a form signed by their fed rep saying they completed one rotation out in the parking lot and it might count. Sorry, sorry I'm just very annoyed that things have got so bad that that extremely sweet boy who's always respected ISU and their rules has had to say that.
  23. Well, there's air and there's ice, there are no other options for where to rotate, is there? I really cannot see another option at all.
  24. I think he literally means below where he rotates it. He rotates in the air, therefore below it is ice. I think he's talking about rotating anywhere except in the air. Another translator seems to think so.
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