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May you be completely right!

@Geo1, thanks so much for sharing. Your experiences track with what I experienced as a teen swimmer the one and only time I qualified for a regional championships. We were younger so the activities were not in any way risqué, but the desire to have a good time was absolutely the same. Also, for some reason now I've got Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady" stuck in my head....

But once their events are done, a lot of them have nothing to do but watch other events and socialize. And they probably feel like relaxing and enjoying life after reaching the end point off all that focus and hard work

And since the topic of the cardboard beds was raised... https://twitter.com/RachLynch27/status/1417390088309280768?s=20

So is it true that the ISU has permanently banned plushie tossing? Or is that only for the duration of the pandemic?

Just as long as they remember to put the sock on the doorknob before starting, and lock the door, so as to warn any roommates not to come back for a while... ...are we being terrible human beings by saying such things?

You put that many young, healthy, mainly attractive , usually confident, people together in a festival atmosphere for a couple of weeks, and the results are fairly predictable. That being said, now I wonder how many babies there are in the world who can trace their origins back to an Olympics.

But I do believe Champéry itself ( where Stephane's rink is) is literally in the mountains, no? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champéry which would mean lots of opportunities for good hiking for weight loss. so in this case, less of a stereotype and more of a reality, I would think.

And thank God for that, it was the dumbest idea I'd heard of in sport up until they decided to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics in the teeth of a pandemic

Wow, he looks great! Mountains are the place to be, it seems.

I keep getting reminded that my only chance to see Yuzu live this year is probably Worlds, if he decides to go...

It must be frustrating for him to be so close and yet so far. Imagine how he'll feel when he finally lands it.

Hey come on now! He already knows how to make perfectly amazing hot chocolate confections!

I spent 9 years of my life making my living by lifeguarding and teaching other people to swim. Based on my experience, someone with Yuzu's apparent body composition will have an extremely difficult time learning to float comfortably. Their legs and arms will sink more easily, forcing them into a more vertical position in the water from the start. If not taught how to compensate for this by an instructor with a thorough understanding of human buoyancy and the lack thereof, it's simply harder for a very lean and muscular man to learn how to swim, because they're fighting their body's own physics. Also, men and women have completely different buoyancy. Females, even very skinny ones, still have a different distribution of body tissue, including fat, which naturally helps them to float in a more horizontal and relaxed position, which facilitates learning to swim. You simply can't compare the challenges, it's two different beasts. That doesn't mean it's impossible. Just that it makes things harder than for, say, someone with the physique of a baby seal. Understand that I have personally taught a good few hundred people how to swim in my lifetime - many from scratch. I have witnessed the phenomenon I describe multiple times. It's my best, educated, guess that this might be one of the difficulties Yuzu has with swimming, but I can't say for sure as I have never taught him to swim. I think it's totally cool that Yuzu tried swimming for a way to improve his 4A. Even if it didn't work, now he knows a way that doesn't work - like Thomas Edison and the ways to make a light bulb. That's terrible. I hope the rain stops for you soon!

As any lifeguard will tell you, there are definitely people out there who can take 10minutes to go 25m...but they're usually chatty old ladies who have draped themselves over flutterboards and are having a leisurely talk with a friend as they paddle along.

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I honestly would love to read Kikuchi-san's book. From what I gather about him from the snippets and bits I've seen, he has a very unique perspective and ideas about physical training. The upturned bucket on wheels that Yuzu rolled around on in the warm-up room at PC being one example.

But the choreo would be highly difficult to translate to the ice. I love Not Today, and I honestly think choreographing it for ice would a major major challenge.

Jonghyun's story is such a sad one. My hat is off to Shinee for continuing on without him, and not replacing him. That must be so difficult.

His body is probably trained to that and messing with it might cause issues. Having a solid, routine schedule is a big part of athletic success

He might not own it but he paid for a sizeable chunk of it with donations over the years. My guess is, they'll happily give him whatever he wants there.

Either ludicrously low or more than 4A, whatever ISU figures is the bigger power trip for them.

Jessica Simpson said the same thing once in an interview - in high school no one wanted her to participate in school events requiring singing, because she made all the other kids l ĺl Ï Edit: no prizes for guessing that I fell asleep over my phone while trying to post this, I guess! What I meant to say was, she made all the other kids look bad.

Yuzu looks so good in those soft and flowy sweaters. What a sweet video! @Henni147 You & your collaborators did a really great job, something to be proud of. 🥰 This is making me think of what my old Strengths of Materials prof told us in engineering school, when we had all flunked a midterm and wanted him to adjust the grades accordingly. He was a strict old Egyptian guy and I think he had little tolerance whatsoever for our lazy attitudes. "It is not I who should lower my standards, " he said, effectively shutting down the discussion. " It is you who should raise yours." And that was that. When people like Yuzu or Simone get underscored because they're so far ahead of the rest, then rather than trying to tie them down to everyone else's level, the rest should raise their standards and try to do better, and the judges too.

A new one? Not just PW Yuzu in the Origin 2 costume? Because I think it's high time Mme. Tussaud's got a hydroblade Yuzu figure going...