rockstaryuzu

Come to think of it, I have a friend who learned Sindarin just for kicks....

My God, they really miss him!

Is..is there even a hieroglyph for 'ice skating'?

How about Cree or Inuktitut? Not that I know those languages but...

I really love that being a fanyu leads us to challenge ourselves with things like this. Even if you've forgotten most of it, the fact remains that you tried. Yuzu is such a leader, without even trying. He just has to be himself and people want to emulate him and achieve great things.

Well, when you put it like that, they're a bargain...@ $6000 CDN...not even a year's tuition at university...no kidneys necessary. Yet.

I'm not sure if I replied to this thread yet. I remember noticing Yuzu's performance at Sochi, and being satisfied that skater with the least number of mistakes won (let's face it, the Sochi men's final was messy as heck), even if he did win over PChan, who I had been planning to cheer for. I remember being really taken with PW, not so much with R&J2. Then life got busy and I forgot about figure skating until two years later, when I happened to flip on the TV and catch the debut of LGC at Skate Canada 2016. Because I liked Prince, I watched and was amazed as Yuzu basically channeled the guy. I mean, Yuzu's attitude for that piece was absolutely perfect. And since then it's just been a slow burn, with my fanyudom growing quietly, until suddenly at NHK17, after the injury, it burst into full flower in the most unexpected way. As Yuzu limped off the ice, I was gripped with tension and a sense of tragedy. And the next day, when the announcement was made about his injuries, I suddenly felt compelled to pray for his recovery - something I had never felt about any athlete before. I have no idea why; I just knew it was vitally important that he recover and compete at the Olympics...and since then I just keep getting more and entranced by him.

He's not bad at the air guitar...when he's done with skating, maybe he could move on to this: https://www.airguitarworldchampionships.com/

Actually, white xylitol reminds me of old-school jumpsuit-style men's FS costumes from the 80's, like Brian used to wear. It was never a good look on anyone, really...

Yes, that's the one. It was probably so ridiculous that they had to laugh...just like us. And yes, I love pic #3.

For me, the worst is that golden yellow ruffle-sleeved tropical monstrosity with the baggy khaki pants that he wore for that ice show. And even that has a silver lining, b/c he took off the sleeves for a jump battle with Javi and so we get buff sleeveless Yuzu doing 4S-3A...

But think of all the opportunities to Yuzu-vangelize!

Just left my local bookstore, and it's true, there was nothing.

I can't find the link right now, but yesterday there was an opinion/editorial piece on TASS.ru discussing the decision and saying, if Google Translate got it correct, that the problem is really that the Russian federation doesn't have any official, written selection criteria for picking the team, just a process of voting among coaches and officials. So they could pick anyone they feel like, in essence. They're not obligated to send the national champion or anyone else for that matter.

Of course they don't. If they even had that kind of money, there's other things they would spend it on.

But you'd think the prominent Adam's apple would give it away....

Of course he did, that's our Zu.

3 tries to get the age right, and the app still thinks he's a girl...wow

Yeah, there's no way Roman looks 27...

Glad to know Radio-Canada still does their fact-checking...just not in a timely fashion.

I can relate!

I'm wondering if it was a hack.

Another month for that.

I thought they might. I'm not the greatest in French, but when I read the original article, something seemed a bit off...not just that the content was wrong. I was wondering if it had been some kind of hoax. Guess not? Just a bad mistake.

Every federation politicks with all the other federations. In a way that's what federations are for - how else, for example, are locations chosen to hold competitions? It only becomes a problem when there's blatant favoritism as a result. You said something entirely different than that, though. What you said was that individual coaches at the top level only get their jobs through dishonest means. And you implied that such was the case for Brian. And I'm telling you that not only is that not true, there's no way it could ever possibly be true for a Canadian coach. As for Gadbois, my understanding is, they don't go picking out skaters so as to have 'influence', but rather, that skaters come to them because they're that good at coaching. Which is the same for Brian , really. He's just that good at what he does. Anyway, I will stop now. We've derailed the thread far enough.