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As far as I can tell from reading interviews about the incident, rather than force himself, Yuzu wanted to get back out there and skate. And given that since then he's totally ignored doctor's advice and skated on fresh injury at least twice, even if someone had tried to stop him back then, they likely would not have succeeded. Still doesn't stop me from feeling such an emotion while watching that particular skate.

It's not the falls in that one - it's the collision during the six-minute warmup at the start and the way he and Han Yan are just lying there dazed and gasping, for several moments, until Han finally staggers to his feet and then it's just Yuzu, flat on his back, with his abdomen laboring up and down trying to force some air into his lungs while you can see his brain going "what just happened?', while it takes the medics another full minute to get out there and help him, that does me in. The falls afterwards are more of a "why is he hurting himself like that now, somebody stop him" feeling.

Oh my gosh, that one? That video always makes me cry, it's the most traumatic video of him...so glad he recovered from that.

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I was thinking in terms of the amount of contact with people from outside of the team 'bubble' that's needed. A whole F1 team could more-or-less isolate together and then as long as they limit contact outside their 'bubble', they can still race. But for figure skating, it's a whole of individuals who have to come together from all over. For example, every judge comes from a different country, every athlete and coach comes from a different country, etc. So you can't 'bubble' in the same way. I think they key will be the judges and technical panel. If ISU can figure out a fair, transparent, and COVID-safe way for judging to happen, then international competitions could go ahead, even if the number of skaters is limited. Another thought occurred to me, one which no one is going to like...but I thought that if worse comes to worst, they could take close-up video of skater's individual elements and judge each one as a standalone, then aggregate the scores to arrive at the standings. Then video the whole program to get an artistic score and add that in afterwards. Of course, if they did that Yuzu would win all, because for once they'd be forced to view his elements objectively and in isolation. It would probably shake up the women's standings rather a lot, though....

Yes, there's a lot more money in F1. Also, car racing is overall an easier sport to social distance and wear masks, etc, I would think.

That's horrible, that someone would fling an accusation like that around on social media at a time like this. I read his Insta; he sounded, as you said, distraught.

Oh for crying out loud. Unreal.

I keep 'liking ' these posts by habit but 'likes' feel wrong for such tragic news. I appreciate the information in your post.

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Yes, that's what I was talking about. Anyway, I'm glad to have been in error.

It's tragic no matter how you look at it. Her poor mother must be beside herself.

Oh, how sad.

4CC can't happen unless it's relocated, Australia has pretty well closed their borders until March 2021 That would be awesome. @sweetwater I was under the impression this was a new and different announcement...my bad. And I should have known better than to take IK at face value given how they go for the dramatic interpretation everytime

Something we're all going to have to learn how to do now, apparently.

Oh s***. Excuse me while I go cry again over the cancellation of Worlds. Basically this means there's no chance to see him live until Stockholm Worlds unless you live in Japan. Unless a miracle* occurs. Now I'm upset. I was optimistic until this. *I.e. he goes to a GP in November that's possible to get to and get tickets for

Also, not really sure how to comment on the performances in the Peggy Fleming event but Jason's skating looks absolutely LIT. If we have any kind of a season this year, I think he's going to surprise people.

Of course they did. Well, guess I won't be buying any Stockholm 'gala' tickets.

Yes. Exactly. Your post has reminded me of something important about the female athlete experience: Females are shamed for having big appetites, period. If you're a female athlete in a sport that needs a 3 - or 4,000 calorie a day diet simply to keep from losing weight uncontrollably, such as swimming, you're going to hear about your appetite from someone. In my case is was my mother, who had two other children and a husband to cook for and was continually irked that I would eat more food than she'd planned for, and who also had a heavy dose of societal programming around the idea that women should eat 'daintily', who was continually reminding me "don't eat that, you'll get fat." Fortunately my coaches were nutritionally aware people who knew how much we needed to eat and gave out good info. My point is that it's not just coaches who matter in this instance. Everybody, from parents to peers to even, in this day of social media, fans, is continually giving female athletes negative feedback around their food intake...it has to stop. Muscle doesn't grow from air. By contrast, the most common thing said to a male athlete about food is "Eat up, you need the energy/strength/muscle/etc."

Take Yuzu away from the awards and see what happens

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/tokyo-olympics-venues-lined-up-1.5653403?utm_content=buffer0f657&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3XVk9UgHB69AEX-BeA1TU-84GAaHNFbq0zmHts-AM6I7GpUOz1Souo8m8 "Estimates say the delay will cost $2 billion to $6 billion," with the majority paid by the Japanese taxpayer. There's a limit to how much that can continue. For example, Montreal finally paid off the 1976 Summer Games in November 2006. It nearly bankrupted the city. That's not something that should be repeated.

Oh, didn't think of that....but how could we possibly keep him a secret and impoverish their difficult alien lives even more?

Not a bad idea. Get those aliens indoctrinated early. Alien: *lands in Ueno Park* Local passerby: Alien: Take me to your Hanyu. Local passerby:

Everytime someone says there's no such thing as a woman skating at a high level past X age, they should look over at Aljona and just stop talking. I love her, she is amazing.

Was checking my phone at the beach and saw this. Showed this to my friend who is not a FS fan ( although she's tolerant of my fanyu ramblings) and she laughed. We've infiltrated the world. Next step, control the UN!