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The thing is, Nathan was NOT consistent here at Worlds. he had a fall and a bad day in the SP, exactly as he did in PyeongChang. So even the 'Nathan is more consistent' narrative is not based on fact. Nathan has not yet beaten a fully clean Yuzu; every single time he's won, Yuzu has had problems in one of his programs. IMO the whole narrative about Nathan being the better skater is made up out of whole cloth and wishful thinking.

They weren't friends, just random people I happened to chat with while waiting in line or getting food, etc. You know how it is in those crowds.

Totally ignores the fact that Kolyada is fully capable of challenging and even beating Nathan, not to mention so could Shoma on a good day.

Talking about Toller Cranston's artistry and the Salt Lake bribery scandal usually proves my bona fides

and this kind of facial expression:

Hooo boy do they ever hate fanyus...there seems to be a general sense of offense over the presence of vocal and enthusiastic fans of any kind, though. There is absolutely a cadre of pearl-clutchers amongst long-time followers of the sport who think the whole fan experience should be more like watching golf. Had conversations with a few at various competitions and wow.

Welcome! Yuzu has proven his critics wrong so many times that I tend to consider 'experts' who prefer Nathan to Yuzu as being in denial of history, and therefore mildly delusional. I'm really not sure why they think the way they do. Nathan has lots of ability but IMO he's not better than Yuzu at anything.

Moscow 1980 was the last Olympic boycott...or maybe it was LA 1984? Either way, the IOC just completely ignores the situation and blithely carries on holding the Olympics as originally planned. The boycotting countries are simply left out of the Games. I don't know. My feeling is the pandemic will sink the Olympics long before boycotts come into play. The Tokyo Games are going ahead and goodness only knows how that will go, and once it's over I suspect everyone involved in organizing the Beijing Games will be looking closely at the outcome and make decisions based on that. It's what I'd do.

He has anything but! I don't mean to be rude, but let's just say that 'pudding butt' doesn't occur in humans until they're well into the obesity range and leave it at that

It shall be so, I decree it with my positive energy.

Actually, based on the post on the TCC Instagram site, it sounds like they aren't even going to be in the same hotel. So much for shonen shenanigans....I was envisioning them having a lot of fun challenging each other to do harder and harder things on the ice.

Oh there's a recipe for chaos. Yuzu and Shoma cooped up together for 14 days straight with nothing to do but practice? Can you just imagine what'll come out of that?

Just say 'Hanyu-sensshu' or 'Hanyu-kun' and they will understand immediately, I'm willing to wager. Pretty sure Yuzu's quest for 4A is definitely a better love story than Twilight Flying to the US and crossing the border by land would at least eliminate the mandatory 3-day hotel quarantine, if not the 14 day regular quarantine. But he'd still have to convince Customs to let him in in the first place. Even if he doesn't listen to it, Queen is so iconic that there's no way he wouldn't know at least a couple of songs. But Japan has plenty of great rockers he could use. #11. Message In A BottleTo the ISU I think it's also not out of the question for Beijing to either disinvite Canada over the Meng case, or for Canada to boycott the Games for the same reason. I could see that morphing into 'Han Yan-chan' sooooo quickly.... or just 'Han-chan'.... perhaps, once she arrives, we should give her the respect due such a grande dame and call her Duchess Axel. Or perhaps Axel-dono, 'dono' being equivalent to 'Lady

Thanks. I love "LemiEn", it sounds like 'Let me in!' which of course is what Yuzu wants the judges to do, let his skating into their hearts.

Amen to that, I want to be packed in an arena with 5,000 other screaming fans cheering for him and raining Poohs upon him once again.

Well, and it's pretty sad if he also thinks Russian folk music wouldn't be popular either. I suppose that means Tchaikovsky is out, so no more Swan Lake. There was literally a pairs couple in 2019 who re-enacyed a whole big battle from Russian history, that no one else knew, on the ice AND scored high for it.

Well, for that matter the Planet's nickname for it is Nessie. I wouldn't be surprised if Yuzu ends up calling it Yon-chan, tbh.

Yon Kaiten Axel, actually. As in "回転", the kanji for 'times turn' Literally '4 times turn' . I don't know why that makes me smile, but it does

replace the flop with Lady Loop, maybe? Definitely not Lutzifer.

SkAm will be in Vegas again, right? I say if Yuzu goes there, we all go too and paint the town red after that 4A.

well, he does have that KOSE contract to think about, after all. Incidentally, has anyone tried to do the Pooh rain for the Astrid Lindgren? I just tried with both my bank account and 3 different cards and I can't get the transaction to complete. To do the transfer from my bank, my bank wants information that isn't on the Donation page, and the teddykompaniert donation site won't accept any of my credit cards...I swear, it never used to be this difficult to send money to Europe...urgh. Must de-stress with rocking Yuzu...

He didn't really perfect Chopin until 4CC last year, so he had good reason to keep on doing it. Some pieces of art are like that. others, not so much. I don't know if he'd bother changing his SP for next year, or not. LMEY is a pretty decent program on it's own, and it gets the job done. But he may want to convey a different message for next season, who knows. I doubt he'd do two programs that are similar in tone or theme. He seems to like having a contrast between the SP and the FS. So if he keeps Ten to Chi to, which I think he will, I doubt he'll go classical or lyrical in the short. If not LMEY, it'll be something else with a more modern and perhaps more 'western' theme. Although, I'd love to see him cut loose with his anime-loving side and do something crazy based on one of his faves. Cruel Angel's Thesis, anyone?

I think it depends on what kind of a professional Yuzu is referring to. I'm not sure he actually meant a doctor, he could have meant a physiotherapist or other kind of body work practitioner, and it might be someone with a specialty you can't find in Japan yet. For example, fascial stretch therapy or some such

We do? you mean this guy --> ? I thought someone had made one out of the actual video of him swaying...

I think Yuzu's done with Otonal. The last time he did it, it was pretty well perfect and I don't know if there's anything more he can wring out of it.