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When the news story breaks on TASS, you owe me for the idea...ahaha... I wish I was joking, but seriously, fan forums must be where they get some of their news 'stories'. They're so far-fetched. Don't know what happened with my formatting here...but yeah, just read the whole post to see what I'm trying to say.

Those numbers are pure fiction. Toronto is an expensive city, but not that expensive. Zhenya would have to be living like a Kardashian to go through that much money. There's no way.

I honestly don't see how they'll be able to do it this year without it looking like blatant racism. The Japanese ladies have all just been that good. Meanwhile, Alina's POTO is an aesthetic mess and both Zhenya's skates are still rough around the edges, and Samodurova is just...bland.

Only if there's Russian judges on the panel. Also, PCS scores or no, it's the Japanese ladies that are bringing it in terms of technical elements this year, no one else besides the Russians even come close. If your BV is high enough, PCS matters less. It still matters, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't, but even on that front, compared to the rest of the world, the Japanese should be highest in PCS, they've had all the best skates this year.

I'm thinking the same thing.

Wow, RusFed. Way to put everyone on eggshells..."you've been selected but don't forget we can change our minds at any time..."

Ladies' drama aside, this interview makes my heart ache for Misha. You can tell his confidence in himself is getting rattled. I hope he can find the right mental space to be in for Worlds, and at least give two strong, clean skates. He needs it badly. Never mind medals.

You know, even though I'm a Zhenya fan, I honestly thought the Worlds spot would go to Liza. And I don't want to diss Alina, but I don't think going to Worlds is going to work out well for her, given her injury issues and the season she's had. The pressure's on for Zhenya now. She absolutely has to turn in a clutch performance in Saitama, regardless of whether she podiums or not. And I'm concerned that she isn't ready to do that yet. IMO, this team selection of Russia's makes it far more likely that we'll have an all-Japan ladies' podium at World's.

The Pyeongchang reaction looks like he's ticking 'step one' off a list, sort of as if he's saying "Okay, done and dusted! Next step!"

Every group of six skaters takes roughly half an hour to get through, so it depends on how many groups there are.

I thought Jason Brown was Tigger...so bouncy!

I'm booking vacation time for that week. I need to use it up anyway.

I love it!

And to put it in context, here it is used in a sentence: "The fanyu first became enfanyued when Yuzuru Hanyu pulled a Hanyu* for the umpteenth time at WC2019." * pulling a Hanyu = getting injured mid-season and being unable to train for weeks or months, then coming back after minimal training to win big or podium at a major competition. (see also: Pyeongchang Olympics, most of the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons.) Rapidly becoming Yuzu's most signature move, much to our chagrin.

It's a long cold winter in Antarctica, and they may or may not get much Internet...we could try sending them souvenir DVDs of all Yuzu's performances to date. They'd be a captive audience, easy to brainwash...err, I mean, convince. Btw, @Henni147: 'enfanyu'? LOL. Perfect word coinage. Well done!

Oh, I haven't seen that one before - pretty cool! The graph I saw had all the countries people were from on the x-axis, and how many from each country on the y. Wish I could remember the thread it was in... ... Found it!

Not long ago, someone posted a bar graph of all the satellites' location stats. We have people here from everywhere. Including Mongolia. And all those tiny Pacific island nations. I think Antarctica might have been the only continent not represented.

Good question, and I wonder if Yuzu's past performances at Worlds can really be used to predict his performance this season. Don't forget, he started out this year by winning every single competition he did (okay, it was only three of them, but still...) which he'd never done before. And with the exception of the FS at ACI, where Jun topped him by 3.5 tiny points, he's won both the SP and the FS. You could argue that his competition wasn't all that tough at these events - he wasn't going up against Nathan or Shoma in any of them, and Javi's gone - but the fact remains that Yuzu skated superbly, even compared to his own previous performances (well, he wasn't happy with ACI, but first pancake and all that). So, hmm, making predictions is a tricky business, but I'm expecting two solid performances this time, rather than something like Worlds 2017.

You may be right, but you're making a big assumption there, namely that Nathan reads what people say about him on social media. For his own sake, I kind of hope he doesn't! Honestly, most of what fans say online about his performances, any responsible coach would also be saying to him. Raf doesn't seem like the kind of guy who pulls his punches. My guess is that he read Nathan the riot act after the Olympics, and Nathan listened.

Agree with you here, but, thankfully, a good number of skaters appear to take PCS with a huge grain of salt and just keep working on getting better anyway, regardless of score. I think they're taking their cues from Yuzuru in that. He keeps on improving. The guy's the tip of the top, the very last grain of stone at the pinnacle of Everest, nothing left to prove, and yet he's still not satisfied and keeps on growing. I love it. And yes, in my opinion Nathan is one of those skaters who has decided that PCS is not an accurate measurement of his performance and that he has to work to improve his performance to suit his own standards. Look at him a year ago vs today - heaps of improvement in performance value. He moves better, his body lines are more precise, he's trying to hit the music better, if he'd just ditch the Vera Wang 'oh-look-i'm-a-skating-monk' outfits, I'd enjoy his skates immensely. If he were taking his PCS as Gospel truth accurate evaulations of his skating, none of that would have happened.

Yuzu did mention in some interview or other that he was watching ice dance these days...maybe he wanted to try a little routine.

I just came here to post the exact same thing. The CBC Sports piece: Canada adds Gabrielle Daleman to team ahead of world figure skating championships https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figureskating/canada-worlds-figure-skating-gabrielle-daleman-1.5029767 Looks like our women's team will be Gabby, Aurora, and I guess Alaine, since she was the National champion. Her performance at 4CC wasn't awesome though. I can't help but wish Kaetlyn had chosen to defend her Worlds title, though. I was looking at her performances in the TYCT vids and it looks like her jumps have gotten even stronger. Anyway, here's hoping Gabby's strong and healthy through the entire competition at Worlds.

Forgot about that.

With five intertwined rings .

Of course I'd watch Ice Buddies first, but The Osaka Takeover sounds the most like a real movie.