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And Plush decides to rejoin the competitive world as ice dancer himself, with Yagudin as his partner, while simultaneously luring Raf to his coaching team with offers of skaters who will actually listen to what Raf is telling them.

That would be EPIC! I vote Meryl Davis to skate all the Yuzu parts... Not going to lie, I love that Yuzu has Bollywood fanyus.

His pandemic hair is just amazing

please shave, Patrick. Also, good job with the donation.

So there's this: No more 'baby' Jun!

Actually, wasn't it Ice-chan? Keegan stole her heart :D.

Ditto. The National Post did an analysis of where all our early cases came from, and the US was by far the main source: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadas-early-covid-19-cases-came-from-the-u-s-not-china-provincial-data-shows . I never thought I would agree with Doug Ford, but he is 100% correct on this point. Also, watching what's going on in the US makes my heart ache. It's like watching a friend deliberately self-destruct. I'm thinking that the population density is relatively low in Alaska, so things like opening up a rink are much less risky, because they just over all have fewer people around to be in them. Likewise, I expect rinks in Nunavut or New Brunswick will open up much earlier than rinks in Toronto.

I had to watch the video several times before my brain believed it was real. And I thought the same as you, I hope Dai's cheque was many orders of magnitude big.

I thought the rule changes announced yesterday directly took aim at the patented Tutberidze cheated quad technique, actually. That's if they're used as intended, which they won't be.

Well isn't that interesting. I've always thought Nathan had miles of room for improvement, can't wait to see what happens while he tries to make those improvements. Also, sounds like this is the beginning of their big push for Beijing. If Yuzu is serious about trying to win there, he's got his work cut out for him.

More importantly, which is tastier? I mean, if Yuzu were actual cake....he'd be the ne plus ultra of cakes, no doubt, the likes of which even one bite would send the tastebuds to heaven...

That was fast. I think it took a year for Olympic Channel Ballade to get to 1 million, didn't it?

I think there must be some kind of special visa class for entertainers and sportspeople, because otherwise we'd never get big American or international music acts etc coming here, but what it is I have no idea. It'd be fairly limited I would think.

I think you don't understand what Canada means by 'permanent resident'. Most of the people who train here would not qualify for permanent resident status.

Canada's borders are still closed to nearly everyone. I think it will be a while yet before any non-Canadian skaters who train here will be able to come back.

I mean, if this kind of injury showing up across multiple skaters at a young age doesn't give the coaches pause, something's very very wrong.

Wow, that's exciting! Good news indeed.

Yeah, seems like a mass exodus is starting? Strange.

Oh, you're right. It was Kazuki who went to Krasnoyarsk. Anyway, lots of university athletes on the Japanese team.

Keiji did the Universiade last year

I have nothing to say to this, since I would also be happy with that...

I also prefer to see class rather than crass from adults responsible for childrens' training/education, but in this case, it seems rather as though Team Tutberidze put in for it. I don't think Plush started this fight, but he seems like the type of guy who would definitely finish one. And if they didn't act like this, what would we have to write about, anyway? It's a little distraction from the miserable world right now.

I guess they consider it fanservice. No judgement. As long as it's not something taken sneakily, I'm fine with it.

And that reminds me....technically Yuzu is eligible to participate in the Universiade, isn't he? And other university sport competitions? Does anyone know if he ever has? Also, speaking as one who was defeated by shoot-the-duck as a child, it may be a standard move but it is not easy. To casually bomb around the ice for an extended period of time in that position, looking relaxed, like Yuzu does, is pretty unique, IMO.

Those look like a swimmer's lats...that's incredible! I guess the forces on his arms during a jump would activate the same muscles as used for the breastroke. That material is so thin!