rockstaryuzu

So Gabby is back for another season. That's good. About Asher Hill....I had no idea of the story until CBC Olympics covered it this week, and his point is correct: making a statement of support means nothing if the actions don't match. As for the Brampton club assigning it's own internal investigator who sided with the perpetrator and didn't do a proper investigation of the racism directed against Asher...I hate to say it, but that kind of cronyism is very common in amateur sports clubs, in my experience. Most of them have a clique or three that try to run everything and crush anyone who gets in their way/doesn't "fit in"/isn't their idea of the 'right' kind of athlete. I've seen similar behaviour in swim teams and soccer clubs and sometimes it takes athletes leaving the club en masse to effect change...anyway, that kind of thing is all the more reason for sports governing bodies like Skate Canada to take complaints seriously and investigate them correctly. So there's multiple failures at different levels here, the racism is only the beginning. Another example: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/hockey-is-not-for-everyone-akim-aliu-nhl

Interesting, Tuktik. https://www.rt.com/sport/490765-elizaveta-tuktamysheva-evgenia-medvedeva-canada-reasons/

But don't you think the Chinese would rather see Boyang win? He's also very popular

I know! I'm dying for Kose to get off their behinds and re-launch our global muse already!

Interesting that the top two franchises originated in Japan (and I'm cheering Hello Kitty on, she's my favorite!) and also that Pooh is bigger than Mickey.

and here I was hoping for fresh Yuzu....

Given the trouble it took me just to find a few things, now I understand why they get upset!

Any indication when these were taken?

We're getting way off topic here, but in my opinion the most important thing for a mother giving birth is that she feel comfortable, happy, and secure...I personally wouldn't need my husband (if i had one) around for that, but I would need to be physically in a location that felt right to me. But as I said, it's an individual choice.

You mean the equivalent of a green card marriage? I think so but the people who pursue that avenue are not usually US citizens but from other places. And it's a two-year process. A This one? In the case I mentioned, I believe the wife opted to stay in the US rather than come home, I can't recall. If it was me I'd be kissing the husband goodbye and telling him not to worry, I'd be fine, and then I'd come on home. But that's me.

I could actually use one, to be honest. Right now I have a cloth mask that ends up crumpled in the bottom of my purse. Something to contain it would be very handy.

CCRA border agents are being super-strict at the land border. Non-essential travel from the US to Canada is prohibited right now and the border people are taking a very very wide interpretation of 'non-essential', going so far as to permit a pregnant Canadian citizen to return here but block entry to her US citizen husband. There's no point in speculating on any of this, guys. The Canadian border is currently sewn up tight until the end of June. Unless you're willing to enter strict quarantine, and that's only for arrivals by air. Don't even bother trying to come by land. As frustrating as it is, we need to give it all another month and then see.

Consensus opinion here is that ACI likely won't take place with any audience in attendance...s o I personally haven't even bothered to look for tickets at all.

That's what I did for the ones i got, but i didn't want to have to do it for every single competition I was looking up...what I wanted was a page with the list of competitions that had only a single link for each competition going directly to the detailed protocol .pdfs with no clicks in between...guess it doesn't exist!

He gave an interview? A new one?

Good question.

Guess that means Gabby is still skating then, if she's at the rink.

It gives me this: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1920/jgpfra2019/SEG001.htm but I want this: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1920/fc2020/FSKMSINGLES-----------QUAL000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf Which I can't get without getting extremely specific in my search terms Skating Scores has what I want but not for the 2019-20 season. .... .... eventually found the .pdf link on those ISU pages. Urgh. Talk about hidden in plain sight.

Yeah, Boyang sure has a sense of humour. Or maybe he's trying to speak it into existence. (And wouldn't that make things interesting!)

Did you follow those links yourself? They don't give full protocols with the individual judges' scores for each element, just summary scores. The ISU one actually links back to the skater bios. I tried those.

...and we might have seen it in Montreal....what could have been....

Other skaters do YOLO, but it's really difficult. Yuzu's ability to do so is kind of amazing, his brain must move like lightning.

This is in fact the only relevant question in regards to this topic.

It's hard to find protocols too, you have to Google by specific competition and hope it shows up. Going to the ISU results home page gave me a blank page! Also, planned contents are only what the skaters decide to submit. I'm sure there are definitely skaters who submit the same one every time for convenience's sake while having zero intention of following it. Or who do like Javi at his last Europeans and submit a blank one. @Lunna no offense, but my recollection of his programs is entirely different from that. When I get the chance I'll be verifying it.

Well, I have 4 bedrooms...