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...except Ling Ling already landed 4A and all the quints, in a program with all Level 4 components . That's what being Ling Ling means! I have to admit, when I saw all the tweets talking about Yuzu's attention to detail on this, my first thought was 'I wonder if he watches TwoSet?'

Ah, now I understand!

I dunno, there's no reason to believe he didn't put as much research into the archery gesture as the violin gesture. It looked very like the style used in Japanese archery to me. Also, I thought that bit was a self-reference or maybe for his dad since his father has said in an interview that he chose the name Yuzuru, meaning 'taut bowstring about to release' , for him. Origin 2.0 might be a continuation of H&L in that sense, wherein it's about Yuzu's life maybe.

Personally, I think they'll admire his skating and recognize right away that he practices 40hrs/day...

Isn't that the essence of faith?

I appreciate what you're trying to tell me here. Just know that in my case, the delay has so far been 26 years and counting, since I was 20 when my first dream blew up in my face...it's a little hard to be philosophical these days. More like, I've come to the conclusion that not everyone gets a grand vision to follow, some of us just get to take care of other stuff instead. Have you seen the early videos where they do exercises in the park while trying to play?

He can't be any worse than some of the movie actors they've roasted. He's probably considerably better! And it could be a challenge for them, too - try to skate and play at the same time!

True, although I suspect that for a great many years to come, skating will be his life in one way or another.

Someone send this to TwoSet !

"Olympic Dream" means something for everybody then, not just smol mushrooms with great ambitions. But seriously, though, I envy Yuzu his singularity of vision. I've spent my entire adult life trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up (after my one actual dream proved to be a financial nightmare I couldn't overcome). I would give my eyeteeth to be so passionate about, and good at, something that my dream couldn't be denied even by a magnitude 9 earthquake. People would always tell me "well, you're so ____ (fill in blank with positive noun of your choice), you could be anything!" as if that's supposed to be some kind of help. Imagine having such a powerful dream, from such an early age, that you never had to experience the stress of trying to choose something, you just had to do it. It's not that it would be easy, because obviously it's not easy. It's that you would always know your path without wandering around lost in life. How lucky to have something like that.

Also, I'm never spending money on parking again. Just calculated how much $$ I could save in 871 days if I put my daily parking fees into it, and yes, I can afford Yuzu in Beijing.

It's definitely not too soon to start saving money for Beijing!

You're asking the wrong crowd! We're more likely to cheer you on.

Maybe you can panic in advance and get it out of the way before then!

From his mouth to God's ears! May it be so. Also, he's lived in Canada for eight years and suddenly he's picking up Trudeau-isms... "Just watch me", eh?

I know, right?

Ghana needs to make a maple-flavored chocolate for those little dispensers.

I can forgive the ignorance about the rest of the guys, but to leave their country's actual results out of the article...! It makes the accusations about 'fake news' look factual.

...so I just tweeted at NBC not to ignore Camden. It's not that I'm a Camden fan, but when they're frothing at the mouth to attack Yuzu so anxiously that they skip mentioning their own athlete, there's something wrong. I could do a better job than that, and I'm nothing but a STEM geek and not a journalist at all. And it's so unfair to Camden, who really had a great performance for his first time out in Seniors.

Not only that, their comment of "no other top ten finishers from Worlds" betrays a massive lack of understanding of the men's field in figure skating right now. Keegan and Jun, as well as Kevin, are both fully capable of being top ten on any given day. The writer of that article didn't even have the grace to mention Camden's result, even though he was the only American actually in ACI and therefore the only one relevant to this article. As I said, horrible journalism and their editor should not have let this go online without heavy revision.

Maybe Nathan has, but NBC certainly hasn't. This is the way they write about all their sports. No wonder so many American athletes drop out at the height of their careers. It's effing irresponsible journalism, is what it is.

Subtle? There's nothing subtle about it! Whoever wrote that knows nothing about journalistic objectivity. They even drag Nathan Chen's name into the bloody title!!!

The way that's written - ' he is strongly convinced that the complete form of Origin is with 4A' - sounds a lot like Yuzu is an artist giving birth to a masterpiece, instead of an athlete. It reminds me of the famous quote from Michelangelo about setting the angel free from the block of marble. I wonder if Yuzu thinks about it that way.

I see that On Ice Perspectives got it on camera so we'll be seeing closeup of Yuzu and Pooh in high quality video over on his channel soon!

If it wasn't for Yuzuru, I would never have had my first conversation in (very broken) Japanese, with actual Japanese speakers, yesterday morning. The four aunties were so pleased that I could say ' yonkaiten Salchow', 'sukoshi', 'kuyashii', and 'nihongo beginner desu' while pointing to myself, and then, while pointing to a picture of Yuzu I had open on my phone, 'because of him'. They all delightedly told me ( in great English) 'Ah, he changed your life! So wonderful!'