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Clip from "No es un sábado cualquiera"

Seems like Dice Murakami will participate in ACI. (Source says this picture is a clip from Nikkan Sports issued on June 24th.) ETA: and Ryuju Hino is assigned to Ondrej Nepela! Sorry I missed his name.

@fujioさん動画リンクありがとうございます ロンダード、きれいな映像で見られて嬉しいです。 明石焼も本格的なの食べられて良かったですね

Plushenko appeared on a Japanese TV show today. He disguised himself as part of a TV crew who visited an ice rink to gather materials for a story on figure skating and surprised his fan and young skaters. Sorry there’s no sub or translation, but you’ll get what’s happening even without them.

Anyone coming back from injury should not be rushed, so if they are cautiously preparing for the season, it’s OK, but I’m anxious for their news. Hope they are doing OK.

Yup. I’m wondering about Sota Yamamoto and Dice Murakami, too.

Assignments to international competitions announced today: Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy (August 2-5): Kaori Sakamoto, Keiji Tanaka *Lombardia Trophy (September 13-17): Wakaba Higuchi, Shoma Uno *U.S. International Figure Skating Classic (September 13-17): Marin Honda, Kaori Sakamoto, Takahito Mura *Autumn Classic International (September 20-24): Mai Mihara, Yuzuru Hanyu *Ondrej Nepela Trophy (September 21-23): Rika Hongo, Keiji Tanaka *Nebelhorn Trophy (September 27-30) : Sumire Suto/Francis Boudreau Audet, Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed *Finlandia Trophy (October 6-8): Satoko Miyahara Japan Open (October 7): Marin Honda, Mai Mihara, Shoma Uno, TBA *ISU Challenger series source1 source 2 source 3 source 4 EDIT: Some of the infomation was missing in source 1, so added source 2 and source 3 (tweets by a reporter of Asahi). Thank you @yana for notifying me! EDIT 2: Added assignments to Nebelhorn Trophy and link to the source.

Congratulations, Hydro! I’ll be waiting to hear your impressions about seeing Yuzu live for the first time!

初戦オータム来ましたね。 全日本の会場も発表になりました（スポニチ記者さんツイ）

Marin Honda will make her senior debut at U.S International Figure Skating Classic. She will also participate in Japan Open with Mai Mihara and Shoma Uno. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2017/06/23/kiji/20170623s00079000115000c.html

I think Patrick was bearing a different kind of pressure going into Sochi. Canadian men have never won OGM even though there had been many strong skaters among them, including two two-time Olympic silver medalists and a four-time world champion who landed a quad in a competition for the first time in the history. Before Sochi all of these guys appeared in a TV program talking about how hard it was for them to compete for OGM in their second Olympics and how hard it was to overcome their loss, for Patrick who was going to compete at his second Olympics to win the OGM for the first time as a Canadian man (why did he have to hear such things before going to Olympics…not after coming back from it?) I think such situation would make it harder for a skater to fight through an Olympic season. I remember him saying sorry in kiss and cry after his FS. Yuzu at that time was also bearing a huge pressure because to win the gold medal there was the reason he left his beloved home, and there were many people seeing him as their hope. Now the pressure on his shoulder is immeasurable. I’m not saying the pressure which was on Patrick is bigger than that on Yuzu now or vice versa, but being the dominant skater in domestic field doesn’t necessarily lessen the pressure on the skater's shoulder.

Listened to the podcast, I’ve come to realize how much he loved to compete and what it is to be an Olympian in US. Hope he’ll do great in shows and keep on skating as long as he can!

Spirit of Athlete it seems.

左下にいい感じのネコちゃん4人並んでますね どんな風に仕上がるか楽しみです！

ABC版のFaOI神戸の番宣が来ていました

The WFS you refer to is probably WFS no.78 released in early May. It has an interview with Yuzu and its contents are basically the same as the post-Worlds interview in Quadruple 2017 Extra. I’m not sure if there’s any translation, though.

みなさん、こんにちは。 充実したレポやいろんなリンクの紹介ありがとうございます。 新潟に行かれた方多かったみたいですね。 私も2日目ですが行ってきました。 幕張だけの予定だったのですが、戻りのチケットが販売されているのをうっかり見てしまい…。 すごく見づらい席でしたが、それでも行って良かったです。 旅の後ダウン気味だったので何も書けませんでしたが、 @lupinus171さんのレポを読んでいろいろ思い返したり（私の印象とすごく近かったので、もしかしたら席も近くだったかも） 楽日に行かれた方々のレポを見てしみじみしたりしていました。 バラ1の幕張からの変化は本当にすごかったですね！ 2日目は4T-3Tで転倒があったけど、プログラム自体はクリーンだった幕張の楽日より充実して見えたし、 演技もまるで音楽を呼吸しているみたいで、本当に自然で伸びやかな感じがしました。 幕張の時は前半の2つのスピンの手前から3Aまでの辺りで時々音が余っている気がしたのですが、 新潟ではそこの流れが全部音に似合っていてとても素敵でした。 ループの後の上体をちょっと後ろに倒したインイーグルも美しくて印象に残っています。 それからジャンプを跳ぶ位置がすごく変わっていてびっくりしました。 幕張や神戸ではリンクの割と真ん中でループを跳んでいたけど、新潟では西南の本当に角のところで跳んでいましたね。 他のパートの軌道も各会場や公演日でかなり変化していて、本当に全部違うバラ1だったんじゃないかなと、それ全部見たかったなああと思いました。 試合までにどんな形になるのかすごく楽しみです。 あと、LGCがものすごく面白かった（笑） 幕から出て来たらすごく腕まくりしてるから、これは…と思ったらスタートポジでマッスル、 ステップの途中でも下がってくる袖をたくし上げてマッスル、フィニッシュもマッスル、 そしてお辞儀しながら力こぶにキスとか、隙あらばSex Bombオマージュを織り交ぜてくるので本気で笑ってしまいました。 キャッツアイはあまり見えない席だったので、私の脳内カメラの新潟のベストショットは力こぶにキスしながら多分自分で笑っちゃってた羽生くんです。 楽日はアンコールがパリ散だったんですよね。 ギターの今野さんのインスタや能登さんの写真を見ても、すごく良いコラボだったんだろうなあと思います。 いつか映像が見られるといいけど、楽日はレポを見ているだけでもなんだか幸せになります。 羽生くんにもショーを作られた皆さんにも、レポしてくださった皆さんにもありがとうと言いたいです。

I saw Adam's instagram story yesterday. It seemed like he drove all the way from Colorado Springs to California. Glad to know he’s back in good shape now.

Oh I see, it’s a drama. Thank you! Looking forward to see the full story somewhere after 24th. I think it’s a bow tie, but at first, for some reasons I imagined Javi wearing this…

From "NO ES UN SÁBADO CUALQUIERA" (I have no idea what kind of program is this...)

Mai Mihara is making her new FS with David Wilson in Canada.

Probably not tomorrow, but on 18th(JST).

Kanata and Yuka saying thanks to contributors

Fun vlog by Dice Murakami features Tomas Verner with Boyang, Zijun, Wakaba. They seem to have celebrated Tomas’s 31st birthday on the lake.