GraceAndPower

Hi everyone! I thought a thread where we share tips and tricks about where and how we follow skating, how we search for things, etc., would be cool. A bit of background on why I'm doing this: Right now, I'm focused on managing to watch Olys... especially on demand, due to the timezone that's far from ideal for Europeans. I imagine finding live links won't be too hard; but for those of us who can't watch live, finding full archived streams of the events, and opening them without spoiling ourselves in the process might not be so easy. So I'm hoping if we pool our ideas, it'll be as painless as possible! I also remember the time the WTT gala was pulled due to a copyright claim last year. The scramble to find it was... not fun. And that was not even a time-sensitive competition! I had only managed to get my hands on it thanks to kind Russian- and Chinese-speaking posters here and elsewhere; so I'm including a section on searching in other languages. Last year during Worlds, I had already asked how everyone was keeping up on here, and then posted my own answers after googling a bit more. Since then, I had kept compiling more links and tips with the intent of posting them... and never did... so I'm doing it now. Better late than never! Especially as I imagine there's gonna be a big influx of newcomers during and after the Games. So hopefully, you guys will find this useful, and then they will too Without further ado... let's get into it! Where to find info https://www.soyouwanttowatchfs.com/navigation https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/ https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/2021-worlds-practice-reports-videos.88053/ (providing this old link as an example; I'm not seeing a Beijing thread, oddly) http://absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=1&id=reports https://twitter.com/fskatingtimes/status/1483146761795366912 https://twitter.com/fskatinglinks/status/1485682551830487040 http://olympicsstreams.carrd.co/ https://skate-calendar.com/ Some Twitter accounts, more on the media side AFAIK. (Two disclaimers: 1) I don't follow any of them, so I don't know how "spammy" they are. 2) This isn't me endorsing anyone! I'm just copy-pasting what I found in Paul Péret's mentions. I'm aware some of those are not Yuzu-friendly, if not outright nasties. Don't @ me!) https://twitter.com/AnythingGOE https://twitter.com/InTheLoPodcast https://twitter.com/rockerskating https://twitter.com/sywtwfs https://twitter.com/SkatingScores https://twitter.com/SkatingLesson/ https://twitter.com/fs_gossips https://twitter.com/ifsmagazine https://foller.me/absoluteskating https://twitter.com/@paul_peret https://twitter.com/@olympicchannel https://twitter.com/@europeonice https://twitter.com/@olyphil https://twitter.com/@LynnRutherford https://twitter.com/@NBCSports https://twitter.com/@insidethegames https://twitter.com/@SarahandDrew https://twitter.com/@skatingpj https://twitter.com/@BevSmithWrites A comment I saw on Reddit last year about update accounts: General info during the Olympics: during Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Channel was doing a daily live-blog. It was just someone finding stuff on Twitter remotely, and not an insider, but it was still interesting. I imagine they'll be doing the same for Beijing. Where to find more info about a skating event: PH: fluff thread, Team Russia, Team Japan, etc. GS: individual fan fests, (event) general info, (event) pre-game chat Reddit FSU, probably? Facebook (I don't know the exact groups, though) tags on Twitter and Insta Photo banks https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/beijing-olympics https://www.imago-images.com/photos/skating https://www.aflo.com/ja/editorial-images/search?package_id=158139893 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_image_archives Twitter tips and tricks Explore page You can follow the "figure skating" topic to have the most popular tweets on your Explore page (yes, I know this is probably obvious to most people; although I don't know exactly how it works...). Twitter lists You can create lists of users to follow a certain topic more easily. A list can be about: only TCC skaters only French skaters only Japanese ladies only pairs anyone associated with FS in Spain and Portugal only FS journalists only FS bloggers only FS coaches only Kosto update accounts only discourse type accounts only scoring analysis only informative accounts like wtficedance only Yuzu ubers only Yuzu antis (can be useful to gauge the mood on something) etc. The possibilities are endless! Lists can be public or private. I don't have any myself, but I'm welcoming recommendations, especially if they're not too overwhelming. Related tweets If you follow an embedded tweet to Twitter, Twitter provides all the tweets it deems related underneath. If you follow a tweet on Twitter itself, however, it doesn't. But you can force it to, by copying ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw at the end of the URL! Research skills: using boolean operators Try this: [worlds OR world] "figure skating" ["practice reports" OR "practice report" OR "practice notes" OR "practice update" OR "practice updates" OR "run-through notes" OR "runthrough notes"] (I'm told this kind of search doesn't work when you're not logged in. It only takes a second to create an account with a throwaway email!) Using Tweetdeck to do filtered searches With http://tweetdeck.twitter.com/, you can perform a filtered search. Some examples: only tweets in Italian only tweets with at least 50 likes only tweets with links You can also keep several of them as ongoing searches to keep tracking a topic if you wish; business intelligence, basically. Searching in another language Sometimes you're desperate for a link and English doesn't yield any results... In that case, searching in another language can help. You can find the translation of the competitions' names on Wiki. But for more specific titles like "WTT gala", it's harder, especially with Japanese, Russian, Chinese, etc., that use a different writing system. To help us, I created an Excel spreadsheet where posters speaking various languages can add translations for a number of terms. Also, the names of the skaters themselves! Check it out / contribute here. (A small disclaimer here too: I feel like I mostly hear about "Chinese" in the fandom, so that's what I wrote. My apologies if that's wrong/insensitive/inappropriate. If "Mandarin", "Cantonese", "Simplified Chinese", etc., would be better column headers, please do feel free to change this!) Using all the right keywords / synonyms / abbreviations to get all the results I put that in the Excel spreadsheet as well. Again, feel free to contribute. Getting to know other countries' social media platforms If anyone wants to write a primer on what the non-Western social media sites are... Like, I know VK is the Russian Facebook, and Weibo is the Chinese Twitter. But that's about it. So I added that to the Excel spreadsheet too! Well, a very incomplete version, anyway. Have at it! Getting to know the channels and websites that air the Olympics I feel like there are four main options: watch on TV: depending on your broadcaster, you'll have either great or terrible commentary, and your coverage could show a heavy nationalistic bias; more importantly, you might not see all the groups, your channel might cut back to the studio a lot, add commercials, etc. I think finding the OBS stream online is a better bet if you want to see the warmups and all the other "in-between" bits. watch a full OBS stream online on a TV broadcaster's website: you'll get to see everything, including the VCs, usually. A number of websites offer all the OBS streams, in Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Australia... If we take 7Plus and France TV as examples: the former has the official English-speaking OBS commentators; the latter has no commentary. subscribe to a dedicated service like Eurosport (I'm not very familiar with that option yet, although I think that's my best bet this time around. Need to look into it!) watch another stream online (http://live.qq.com/10012776, https://vk.com/video/@figure_skaters_ru, etc.); QQ is live only. I'd be interested to know if any others allow you to watch the events later. Tbh, I'm hoping full events will be available for download somewhere. Feels safer having the video on my laptop, and I like fast-forwarding through the slower parts sometimes. Also, if people find on-demand videos during the Games, could we maybe have a dedicated thread where those links get shared? That would allow us to access them without getting spoiled. For now, I'm just sharing those two links: https://olympics.com/en/beijing-2022/where-to-watch https://old.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/ozf0ly/olympics_day_fifteen_megathread_saturday_august_7/h81zvxu/ For more information, maybe a separate "How to watch the Olympics" thread could be good? If someone from every country shares their intel, that's quite a lot of material Best Olys resources in general / for other sports Just a few: The daily write-ups in the https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/ megathreads are quite good. Olympics subreddits aggregated: https://www.reddit.com/user/cycleanalyst/m/olympics/ I find this schedule clearer than others: https://7plus.com.au/competition-schedule A Google Calendar: https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/rzbflf/i_made_a_google_calendar_for_all_beijing_2022/ [Technically, this is off-topic here. Should I post it in the "other sports" Fluff thread, or create another separate thread? I wasn't sure where to put this whole post either, btw; but I saw "Accessing Japanese TV online" was here, and figured there would be more visibility too. May I suggest a dedicated Resources/Howtos/Meta/Whatever subforum, to group all those, the glossary, etc.? I think it could be quite convenient. ] Your tech setup Even outside of skating, if you're an Olys addict like me, how do you make sure you have as little FOMO as possible during the Games? Some examples of my own tips: I use the wifi on my previous phone in order to have one more screen. For my (desktop) browser, I prefer Firefox: it has a feature where you can "detach" the video player and it displays on top of your other windows/tabs. Ideal to do something else during the replays and still not miss one second of the action! And you can also resize it to your taste. For VPNs, I only have experience with Opera's so far... It offers 3 options in theory, but the "Americas" option has never worked for me. *** Okay, I'm done for now! What are your tips and tricks?

https://japan-forward.com/ice-time-new-book-on-alexandra-trusova-a-compelling-read/ The book sounds pretty interesting. They're even talking about turning it into a movie! This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

A follow-up on the GS stuff under spoiler.

GS "drama" under spoiler.

Comment regarder les Mondiaux en France : Et tant que je suis dans le coin, une autre bricole qui m'avait fait rire l'autre jour : Bonne semaine tout le monde

Upsetting thoughts under spoiler.

Thank you! Thought this was very interesting: Seems the C*pr*s stuff had already opened the floodgates... Good!

They're lucky this exploded after Euros and not before... Annick D., one of the three commentators officiating on public TV, is Gailhaguet's ex-wife... Pretty awkward! Do you have links for those two interviews, or remember on which station they were? Following the various cases is not so easy, what with so many of the articles being paywalled...

Is there no thread to chat about ～Music with Wings～ yet? The first concert was a few hours ago. Three hours of Yuzu music and lots of new content... Seems amazing! Apparently they'll show some of it on TV on the 15th. I hope they'll broadcast a good chunk of it, including the Yuzu videos.

OT but, have there been no full uploads of the stuff that aired on Dec 29 in Japan? I feel like we're still missing some MOI stuff, aren't we?

While we're on the topic of stamina, etc., I have been thinking about this clip: And these comments by Sweetwater: The way Ghislain just goes "Sure" immediately in the video... This is something that has happened before, right? I wonder what can cause such a reaction. Is it the adrenaline just crashing??

Does anyone know what this is / where it came from?

Apparently Alina will make an announcement in about an hour:

Skipping the million pages I still have to read for now, cos I had an idea I just needed to share! Hope it hasn't been posted yet. Hold on to your hats, it's pretty crazy! I know the axel is Yuzu's dream, but they've told us several times now that quints are easier than the 4A... So if he has a quint ready (a big "if", I know...) as well as a sufficient lead to be able to afford having an element count for 0 points, I think he should jump the 5T at Jnats. Crazy?! Hear me out: what a surprise that would be! "Coming out of nowhere" indeed... He'd terrify the rest of the field, and I know I'm always here for that! that would make a TON of noise, he'd become even more of a legend than he currently is, and that might make it harder for the ISU to continue their current BS? Imagine the scandal... mostly, it would force the judges to assign values to quints, of course. Maybe even in time for Worlds, or am I dreaming? How fast or slow are they with that kind of thing? He needs to jump it early enough, if he wants it to be counted when it counts... Which is why I think he should deploy it before the 4A. and finally, it would reinforce the narrative (AKA the truth, in this case) that the 4A truly is the hardest jumps of all. So again, maximum legend points when he finally lands it in competition! What do you guys think? Have I completely lost it, or does that make some sort of sense? After all, the boy does need a challenge going into this next competition, if he's gonna revert to his usual layout...

Got it. Thanks guys!