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My understanding is that he lends them.

Thanks for the translation and explanation, it will keep us from falling into a negative discussion indeed.

I love it. It just screams snarky Musubimaru* energy. *Musubimaru is the samurai onegiri mascot of Visit Miyagi** twitter. **Sendai is in Miyagi***. ***Am I being ponderously pedantic just for fun? Yes****. ****My sense of humour may not tickle everyone's funnybone. Oh well.

Jun's SP is up in the thread that @barbara posted, above. Other skaters too but i only had time to watch Jun this morning. He's skating very well but you can still tell that he really needs to get back to his coaches for some tuning up of jumps, etc . Can't believe we haven't seen him skate in a year and two weeks. Miss him so much.

I think I've only re-watched it a couple of times because emotional rollercoaster - still!

Same. My dad did FINA officiating course one after another and wrote a computer program to help the swim club tabulate results...and he only knew how to do breastroke slowly... Volunteers make everything happen, in the end.

For the sake of sweet suffering Jesus, WHY? It was the single most stagnant, opaque, thoroughly corruptible system that ever existed to score a sport anywhere. IJS, and the current +5 GOE system , have their faults but at least a skater can break down their score and see what the judges thought of them and why they thought it, and go home with an idea of what to work on for next time. It's not even like the American women are all that bad. It's just that the Russians and Japanese are way ahead. To paraphrase something TAT once said, not every judge was once a figure skater. Like any sport, some officials are probably parent volunteers who got invested in it and got better and better at it. Just like in swimming. If every timer, starter, stroke&turn judge, meet referee, etc had to be a former swimmer to qualify, swim meets wouldn't get held. It's all parent volunteers. So maybe the answer is to provide a welcoming atmosphere and training for BIPOC parent volunteers to contribute as skating officials, and then they can work their way up to the higher levels. Nothing ever happens without grassroots involvement when it comes to amateur sport. For coaching you probably do need former skaters, though.

Not that I'm aware of. He might not even be in Juniors yet, from the size of him. He's not as fast as Yuzu (but who is), but he's got the Step Seq down pat otherwise. Love that he does the knee slide too. Hats off to Ravi doing his coaching outside in the depths of an Edmonton winter, BTW.

The following is not directly Yuzu-related but may be of serious interest to anyone worried about 'rona: https://physicsworld.com/a/air-purifiers-could-spread-viruses-in-confined-spaces/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iop&utm_term=&utm_campaign=14258-49051&utm_content=Image%3A Air purifiers could spread viruses in confined spaces - research_updates&Campaign+Owner=

Cost is for sure the most fundamental problem.

You thought so too, eh? While the writer had a point about how expensive figure skating is as a sport, most of the rest of the piece had me rolling my eyes. And the nostalgia for the 6.0 system nearly made me puke. No one ever had any clue how the judges arrived at those 5.8s and 5.9s. At least in the new system you can see what they're doing, more or less. As for discrimination in figure skating, it's a problem that isn't going to go away as long as there aren't many coaches and officials of different ethnicities than white...you can promote racialized skaters all you want but the fundamental problem will remain until there's a diversity of voices in the powers that be of the sport.

...after they cancelled 4CC there?

aka "since we know they'll all fail the test, we need to make a loophole so the Russians can still compete". Sorry if I sound cynical, but really, is this a problem any other fed is likely to have? They're the ones who've been dropping like flies....

...and he did it again. This time jumping the CN Tower:

This topic is evergreen, it's never old. I love hearing all the great things Yuzu inspires people to do!

Unless you're prepared to do hundreds of squats and lunges a day, don't feel bad. MY muscles ache just thinking about the two decades of hard work it took for him to build that physique. Chocolate eclairs are so much more enjoyable.

Plush has two big brass ones, and never backs down from a fight. I think he absolutely wanted to challenge Yuzu in Sochi. He must have been so frustrated when he got hurt.

I'm sharing this here as well as in the Team Canada thread. Look at this beautiful view of Toronto provided by Nam. Can you imagine Yuzu being there too?

So you ALL need to see this. Toronto is so beautiful from this angle. I'm so lucky to have been born there 💓

I believe he was also either recovering from or due for back surgery at the time (Plush has steel rods in his back, I believe) . So his withdrawal was entirely understandable. In any case, Sochi men's turned out to be a splatfest extraordinaire. Yuzu was practically the only guy in the top ten who stayed on his feet. @SitTwizzle I agree - Yuzu must have been absolutely thrilled back then. He still adores Plush so much.

Asher and Dylan do their best provide an analysis of the potential Canadian team for Worlds. As for David Wilson, I think he's got no right to criticize Skate Canada on this issue as he's not the one who'll be held liable if someone gets sick, but I do agree with him about the hockey vs figure skating thing.

I don't think Shoma was on the Sochi team, but my recollection of Pyeongchang is certainly of Shoma simply swimming in his team clothes...

And to this day no one knows who Don is or why he merited such insult at that particular moment in time.

That's a relief. so far so good.

Christ, I hope they're together and comforting each other! Right now what's in my head is that Yuzu will be feeling awful and trying to be strong for his family, but not being at all ok, and trying to hold back tears. And I imagine a huge number of people in Tohoku are feeling exactly the same as him.