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Hard to imagine him sitting all alone in the stands like that and no one noticing him now...

A goal I can get behind, but it's a little early for that, no? Also, not really a fan's business, no matter how cute it would be.

Well I used autotranslate to scroll through the thread there, and quite a few of the Japanese replies are having fun mentioning the giant stuffed golden carp that was tossed to Yuzu at CoR...it was a pretty big carp, but I guess not big enough...

I was thinking the same thing!

My Japanese is just good enough that I think I can guess that the artist is making a pun. 'koi' means 'carp', but it also means 'love', and the first word is 'tarinai' - 'not enough'. So it says 'carp (love?) is not enough'. It also kind of plays off 'Haru yo Koi', at least to my English-speaking ear. I wonder if this is relating to Coach Tsuzuki's comment. Sorry for my amateur thinking out loud here. Feel free to tell me if I'm on the wrong track.

One HECK of a one! look at us all scratching our heads. Anyway, you'd have to be blind not to see that Yuzu is aflame with love. It practically blazes out of him every time he skates a program. Maybe it's not the intimate love of a conventional relationship between two people, but what's not romantic about it?

"I think what Hanyu lacks is (romantic) love" ----> Ice-chan begs to differ! I mean yes, she's the tsundere-est of tsunderes, the cruelest of cruel angels, but there isn't a shadow of a doubt that Yuzu loves her dearly. Just go look at the hydroblade in Haru Yo Koi. ice-chan plays coy, but she loves him back. **** Joking apart, and without wanting to speculate about Yuzu's private life, I can't help but wonder what Coach Tsuzuki meant. I can think of a few interpretations, the most obvious being that he's saying Yuzu has never fallen 'in love'. .

Exactly! I had no idea she was training a 3A and I'm not her fan but good for her.

I'm so sorry to hear that you are going through so much pain, My condolences on your aunt. I hope your grandfather and your friend recover fully and things improve. As for the Yuzu - Apollo comparison, very interesting! I find Greek mythology is interesting in that its gods are often depicted as behaving in very human (and sometimes inhumane) ways, in addition to having divine powers, with all that entails. Anyway, good catch on the similarities, it's a fun observation.

Welcome! the more, the merrier!

This is actually a much better term. You do not have to be a scientist to have a scientific mind. Some of the most observant and analytical people out there are artists, performers, and writers, for example. Or our own dear boy...if he's not a scientist of skating, I don't know who would be.

STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Math ... I see @barbara beat me to it

Nothing wrong with that. I hope he decides to recycle Hip Hip Chin Chin too. That was really fun and he seemed so relaxed and comfortable doing it.

I don't know why but her doing this makes me feel uneasy. It shouldn't, but it does. It makes me feel like she's not planning to stick around skating very much more.

That's because so many of us are in STEM careers...seriously, I was blown away by the company I was in in Kelowna...the only satellites I met who were not in STEM, healthcare, or academia worked in finance. Oh, and one is a lawyer :). We are smart people and it cannot be denied.

Well, if they don't send their skaters out, then how are those skaters going to get points and standing for the bigger international comps? Yes I mean that they could try and do something to compensate for not being able to send their athletes to Challengers. And frankly, the ISU needs to start thinking about ways to accommodate such situations, because Japan won't be the only country making this choice. Far better to send a couple of international judges to Japan than a whole team full of athletes all over the world. Also, the total number of skaters entered in a competition only matters if the judges are scoring the skaters relative one another (a la 6.0 system). If the judges are following the actual rulebook on scoring, there could be only one entrant in the whole competition and in theory the score would still be accurate, objective, and valid. That's how it's supposed to work. Of course we know it doesn't, but a satellite can dream...

No, I don't mean as selection for Nationals. I mean as the equivalent of Challenger series.

Well, if they stop giving points, no one will show up, but if they give prize money, then they could be held liable for luring skaters into an unsafe situation, I guess? I'm sure it was something like that anyway. GP doesn't start til October, might as well wait and see if the situation improves. For now. I thought China was cancelling all international sports events? I think they said they weren't going to Budapest, either? ....I dunno, guys. Ever since the beginning of April, I've had this weird hunch that SCI is going to end up being the season opener...and that feeling keeps on getting stronger. I cannot picture any federation willingly sending their skaters to the US at this time, the virus is galloping out of control there. But SCI could happen, if the 14-day quarantine requirement is dropped in time. At the moment it's in effect until Aug 31 here, so, who knows? But I don't want to make any predictions. It's just a strange gut feeling, is all. The details about entries for Worlds and so forth: that truly sucks for some. For example, it means Nam, Keegan, and Roman have to duke it out a second year in a row for the same solitary spot. I had high hopes Nam could have won that second spot back for us... oh well. Small potatoes in the grand scheme of things I guess. Shouganai.

Realistically, I doubt they will allow an audience at ACI this year anyway. The seats would be empty either way. So, I wonder if JSF will be doing something different for their skaters, like adding some extra, senior-level competitions that are local to Japan. I mean, it's not just Yuzu who's an elite international skater: on the men's side they have Keiji, Shoma, Kazuki, Shun, Sota, Yuma etc etc. The JNats men's roster read like a who's who. On the women's side is Rika, Kaori, Wakaba, Mai, Marin, and many more. (not including skaters currently known to be training abroad. (who could well return to Japan, who knows)). they could do their own series of elite seniors Challengers just within Japan without too much trouble. It's only in ice dance and pairs that it becomes an issue.

What better way to set the spirit free when your body is caged in?

SSsssssurrrreeee, Roman, stick to that story. No one can resist the allure of The Waist.

To be smothered in fanyu love and drowned in Poohs, of course! How else do you put a fire out?

So that's that for Autumn Classic then. Logically this means they won't be sending Yuzu. Makes me wonder when Yuzu will be leaving Japan now. Also, what does it mean for Japanese skaters already training in the countries in question, like Satoko?

Here I was getting so excited for him...but maybe Yuzu is one of those perma-student types who just keep going back to study more.

There's that. To my eyes, the article reads like an opinion piece, so I personally wouldn't take it as fact, because opinions aren't facts, but there might be readers who would see it that way.