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76th National Athletic Meet https://www.jsfresults.com/non_responsive_toppage.htm?figure_top.htm%2CNational/2020-2021/fs_j/nationalfestival/index.htm among skaters: Ryuju Hino and Sota Yamamoto (Team Aichi), Kazuki Tomono and Taichi Honda (Team Osaka), Taichiro Yamakuma and Shinichi Yamada (Team Hyogo), Keiji Tanaka and Yuto Kishina (Team Okayama) Wakaba Higuchi and Tomoe Kawabata (Team Tokyo), Miku Mochizuki and Yuna Aoki (Team Kanagawa), Rin Nitaya and Yuhana Yokoi (Team Aichi), Yuna Shiraiwa and Hiyori Tokura (Team Kyoto), Riko Takino and Saki Takamura (Team Osaka), Kaori Sakamoto and Mai Mihara (Team Hyogo), Hina Takeno and Niina Takeno (Team Fukuoka) Shun Sato and Kosho Oshima (Team Saitama), Kao Miura and Sakura Odagaki (Team Tokyo), Yuma Kagiyama and Minato Shiga (Team Kanagawa), Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda and Syun Kobayashi (Team Shiga) Rinka Watanabe and Nonoka Shozen (Team Aomori), Himari Miura and Mone Chiba (Team Miyagi), Shiika Yoshioka and Chikako Saigusa (Team Chiba), Rion Sumiyoshi and Aiko Motoe (Team Tokyo), Chisato Uramatsu and Rino Matsuike (Team Aichi), Mana Kawabe and Hana Yoshida (Team Kyoto), Moa Iwano and Sae Shimizu (Team Osaka), Saki Miyake and Marin Okamoto (Team Okayama), Maria Egawa and Arisa Kamoi (Team Fukuoka)

interview with Rika https://this.kiji.is/724103079718830080?c=39546741839462401

SOI Japan again postponed announcement of first skaters, until February 5. https://figureskate-soi.com/news_20200417.html

Yaguchi-san pics are just *chef's kiss* x

Happy Birthday to Keegan and Yelim!

Shiika, Mana and Moa WDed. Mana posted that her leg(s) hurt her after JNats and she decided to recover first. She feels better now and came back to training, but there was no time to prepare properly for this competition. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKROfBfp0Dx/

Can we have... a proper translation/summary?

Zhulin https://tass.ru/sport/10504291

Azu-nyan on Mana's instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CJa9E2zpK0-/

Channel 1 Figure Skating Cup (Team Competition) ice dance men pairs ladies Zagorski/Guerreiro Aliev Boikova/Kozlovsky Valieva Morozova/Bagin Ignatov Mishina/Galliamov Kostornaya Skoptsova/Aleshin Kolyada Pavlyuchenko/Khodykin Trusova Stepanova/Bukin Kondratyuk Tarasova/Morozov Tuktamysheva Khudaiberdieva/Bazin Mozalev Usacheva Shevchenko/Eremenko Samarin Shcherbakova Two teams take part in the tournament. Team captains - Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva. The prize fund of the tournament is 10 million rubles. The competition will be held in the presence of spectators and will be broadcast live on Channel One. Participants will perform in short and free skating in men's and women's singles, pair skating and ice dancing. The best team will be determined by the total score. Judging will be carried out according to the current ISU system. In addition to the sports result, the teams will compete for the Audience Award. Spectator voting will be held live on Channel One. In addition, for the first time in the history of such competitions, a separate jumping tournament will be held - a particularly entertaining part of the program. The teams will be formed as a result of the draw, which will be broadcast live on the resources of the First. Under the guidance of the captain, each team will choose a name for themselves and prepare a colorful team number for their fans. Athletes who took 1-6 places in the Russian Championship 2021, European champions 2020, world champions are invited to participate. Friday, February 5 Official training. Draw. Jumping Festival Saturday 6 February Team tournament. Short program Sunday, 7 February Team tournament. Free program https://fsrussia.ru/news/5336-ffkkr-i-pervyj-kanal-predstavlyayut-komandnyj-turnir-kubok-pervogo-kanala-kotoryj-projdet-5-7-fevralya-v-megasporte.html

Happy Birthday to Aliona and Dabin!

Mmmm, this is exactly the trap that everybody fell into (me includig), consciously or not, before WC19. "He managed to do it once while disadvantaged, so he should be able to do it second time too, right?" while totally forgeting, that he is still disadvantaged.

Good for you. Since 2018 I have absolutely the worst hunch about next Olympics. Comparable to dread I felt right before CoR2018. Will be fun.

There was always something a bit off about them. Shingo stayed all year in Canada and still trained singles. He even was posting nice 3a attempts this summer and this way, with his usually high PCS, he had realistic chances to qualify to senior nats. And he wanted to debut in singles seniors (he will age out of juniors after this season) but then he announced that he won't compete at regionals, for unknown reasons. Meanwhile Utana wasn't able to spend whole year at TCC (because of financial reasons? I don't think they had any sponsor). On FujiTV list she had only japanese coaches listed (and Shingo canadians). And I think she will have uni exams next winter? Yet she seemed to be more ambitious between them. They always had these a bit unrealistic goals. They even wanted to go to Beijing (and they split one month after their last planned skate of this season, right before olympic season👀). But they were first ice dance team in eternity (or ever) JSF seemed to be interested with. This Hip Hip Chin Chin really looked like a base for new FD. So I thought they will stay together for more time. No conspiracy theories. Just wondering. Now I'm speaking Iwano/Nishiyama into existence!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

interview with Yuna

I'm... both surprised and not.

If someone doesn't know Yuzuru Hanyu's achievements, then even more they won't know about isu bios existence, but will just google him and check wiki.

Yuzuru's bio had an update. http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00010967.htm It doesn't list training details and his coaches anymore, past or present, but his club is still TCC. His profession is still university student. Programs are also old.

Suddenly I Can't Read.

I'm torn between knowing that Plush is a bit right VS. he acts like saint when his skaters are overscored af too VS. finally someone tries to do something and this time someone influential, or at least famous.

2034 Olympic Champions

Mana's crowdfunding page https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/362267