WinForPooh

Yuzu is so nice. I'd be tempted to put them in a harness and spin them and chuck them. Or get somebody like Ondrej to just pick them up and throw them and demand that they rotate.

Quint. Just stop.

Precious, precious young man with excellent, intelligent and still diplomatic answers.

Asian pride. Go Yuzu!

He just said his foot hurts like hell. Why would he even ask this. I want to kick him.

What does he want? Do a 4A on land? What? Of course he's more comfortable talking about skating in English than anything else.

A reduction of pain by 20 to 30 percent. Good God. Go home and put that foot up, you beautiful, exasperating skating overlord!

During translation of questions, we should guess his answers. We could probably make decent guesses.

Yes, YUZURU HANYU SKATES FOR WORLD PEACE!!!

Oh God, more crying.

Cue crying.

I'm getting suffocated just watching that. Boy has poise.

Sound is on, FCCJ stream. Not having sound so far was not a loss, can confirm.

Which one has sound now?

hahaha A dude is picking his nose. #goals

Yes, this is absolutely not making me question my life choices at all. Watching a youtube stream without sound, of a bunch of people sitting and talking and staring at an empty stage, is my childhood dream/goal.

Wow, that was an insightful read! Thank you for all that work, it must have taken you ages. What he said about an era or a gold standard, it made me think. All that talk about a technical programme and an artistic one might be representative of another change. Other than Yuzu, there aren't that many skaters who can be both technically and artistically excellent. The strongest feds don't have anybody who can follow all the current rules for difficulty in skating skills and transitions as well as land those high BV jumps. Yuzu might be the last of his kind, and really the only one of his kind. The one who bridges two completely different eras, being so good at both. He is caught in the middle between the uncles with the superlative skating skills and the quadsters who often prioritise jumps over the rest of their programmes, isn't he? Especially when both Nathan and Vincent are from the US, that might be the direction in which the sport is heading.

This is too complicated for sleep-deprived and stressed out fanyus!

Does anybody have anything on the youtube stream now? I've got nothing.

I wonder if being a Fanyu could be a paid gig because my actual paid gigs are suffering from me being a fanyu.

Who else is relieved that somebody apparently conditioned Shoma's hair? Possibly when he was asleep.

The gala practices and performance had a feeling of him getting as much out of it as he could, living every moment as much as he could. Might be because he's not too sure what will come next. He made the choice to risk a lot to win his second Olympic gold. It was worth that much to him. Now we can all cross everything, touch wood, whatever superstition we believe in, and hope that whatever he thought he was risking, his ankle held up better than he expected it to, and it's not as bad now as he feared it would be. But it does sound like he was told his treatment would be longer-term than preparation for Olympics would allow, so he decided to make the best of it and forget treatment after a point. But that does imply that he does have a treatment plan open to him. So he will heal, just more slowly than he'd like. And less painfully than he expects, I hope.

Shoma is too short even up on the higher step?

What was all that about short track and ski jumps? What? He's talking about stuff he likes watching, I hope. Or saying nice things about other athletes.

Doesn't he look fed up? He's so cute. Like 'this is not what I was promised, I won a medal'.