rockstaryuzu

we'll have to choose with care...not sure it would be good for him seeing all our thirsting over the The Waist, no matter how humorous it may be...

So this is what Google translate did to the last line of that article: "I will rest my feathered wings for a while to jump higher next year." Poetic.

That was fast. I figured he'd stay in Japan for a while. Guess he meant right now when he said 'I want to train hard'. Or his doctors for his ankle are in Canada. or both.

I like the photobook idea. It'll take a fair bit of planning and work. It might be simpler to have a Planet Hanyu T-shirt or scarf made up for him, something with a clear and simple design and a message printed on it that says something like 'Thank you for all your hard work up until now. We're with you every step of the way as you go forward. Love and respect from the satellites of Planet Hanyu" .

How about a tracker for his gloves so he never loses or misplace a pair again? Like this: https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/how-it-works

...but he's still planning to try, if he can, and also said this: "I'll do my best to master the #4A #4Lutz and #4F... I will probably make you all worried for me, but I hope you will keep supporting me." I personally think that tells us exactly what we need to do. Him saying his body is fragile and has a lot of injuries is just him acknowledging his current reality. Him saying he wants to push forward and keep getting better is his statement of what's going to happen, no matter what, if it's in any way humanly possible. I honestly don't think this is the time for telling him 'cheer up'. I think this it the time for telling him 'we have confidence in you, if you say you'll do it, we know you will.' Others may think otherwise but the reality is that Hanyu needs our solid confidence in him right now, more than anything.

Those are lovely suggestions...but did you guys hear him in those post-competition interviews? He's burning with fire to continue and get better - and doesn't sound particularly down. So I personally think the best cheer we could give him, is to assure him that even though we're going to lose all our hair worrying about his injuries, we're with him all the way to whatever stratosphere he wants to rocket off to next. AND he's said he's back to his own 'origin' of wanting to win and overcome strong opponents again. I guess you could say we're about to see the genesis of Yuzu 2.0. So, how about a t-shirt with a suitable design along the theme of 'where ever he goes, we're with Yuzu 2.0' ? And yes, I do realize that I might just be proposing the fanyu version of an 'I'm with stupid' T-shirt...more like, 'I'm with crazy'....

I always have 2 reactions to this: 1. WTH does Brian know? He was still able to 3A at the age of 39 ( see: Goodwill Games 2002), he probably thinks it's normal to do that. 2. On the other hand, no one else would know better what's possible to do than a man who made it to that age with his 3A intact. And then I Why do this to Shoma? They could just as easily send Kazuki. If you ask me, he should just take the whole summer off and limit his skating to the parts where he isn't flying through the air, but I guess that actually would backfire if he loses too much muscle and muscle memory One more thing: Happy Birthday, @micaelis!

I hear "oh my god, Yuzu's doing his tea down and we're all like - " "WHAT?" "We're all just chillin' " The sound isn't particularly good, there's a lot of background noise. So yeah, I really can't hear clearly what she says he's doing. But even without that, it makes sense he'd do team trophy unless he's too injured to. He is Japan's big gun right now.

It's really garbled at that part. It doesn't sound like she's saying 'team trophy' or 'WTT' to me.

What, the idealization of a very limited interpretation of what it means to be feminine? Yes, I've noticed 😑, and it baffles me. Then again, it baffles me wherever I find it. It's just not logical to accord one gender primacy over another when we're all in the same boat together from a survival of the species standpoint. Okay, who left this soapbox lying around? I can't seem to step off it.

See I've never understood the fascination with ladies' singles in the US. The Americans have had great skaters in all disciplines over the years, many big winners, but the ones who get the Disney parades and all the star treatment are the girls. Why? It smacks of an undue regard for archaic feminine stereotypes to me.

This year's bird theme was phoenix tho, not swans...

here's a thought: they could just let Nathan be Nathan, and his audience will find him, instead of the other way around. From there support and interest will build. Nathan's likeable enough. But IMO the saviours of American figure skating are/should be the Shib sibs. They've got the appeal, they've got the chops, and they're already doing it through their own social media anyway. I hope they come back to competition soon.

the way I see it, the skaters (and any athletes really) also proclaim the work of God's hands and reflect His glory because He made them able to do great things. However, this is not a religious forum and I don't want to make others uncomfortable, so that's all I want to say about it for now. but it is nice to know we both see it

And Kozlovski looks like a high schooler at senior prom...nice tux though.

All the things Yuzu has said about how competing is what makes him happy, and about how having a strong opponent gives him a thrill and makes him want to win even more, reminds me of two things: 1. every shonen manga protagonist ever. 2. that Bible verse from Ps 19 that describes the sun as 'rejoicing as a strong man to run a race'; the theme being 'the heavens declare the glory of God'. Yuzu absolutely sounds like 'a strong man rejoicing in testing his mettle in a race. yeah. my Yuzu obsession keeps pointing me back to my faith. Is that weird?

Except that Yuzu's coaching team is on the ball and would catch him long before he slid too far down that slippery slope...

Be sure to revive in time for the final tomorrow...even if you're undead, you can still watch.

Ha! Wine? At this rate I'll need Valium...

@Sombreuil covered it. basically it sounded like he might be planning something very reckless to me...

Oh, that doesn't sound reassuring at all. What's our boy going to do? What crazy risk is he planning to take?

Yay!! Good for you!

This line: "There is some doubt over whether Hanyu will actually train on Monday as he has not been seen yet in the local area." ...is whoever runs the Olympic Channel Twitter, a satellite? Because that sounds exactly like what we were just talking about a little earlier in the Worlds Fluff Event Discussions thread.

Totally a Phoenix. He's arisen from the ashes so many times already...