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Honestly, who knows? Brian's strategy is to get his skaters out early so they have time to work out the problems with their new programs before hitting big international competitions but it doesn't necessarily have to be at ACI.

Arrgghh. Oakville again? That place is a hotel room desert! Although I am glad they've moved it up a weekend. I notice Cup of China is back. I guess they and the Chinese fed have sorted out their differences. I would have thought they'd stick with Helsinki though.

It's not lost on me that they don't even mention Hanyu's name there, just say 'current era'....just a touch of microaggression there, hmm?

Wow. Do they not understand that a)megastars aren't made, they just happen, and b ) you have to have one first (Yuzu) in order for there to be more? That explains why Shoma's suddenly being pushed forward more... they're hoping for magic lightning to strike a second time. My fear is that they start thinking they can manufacture skating stars like pop idols, Johnny's-style.

There was someone at ACI who gifted him a stained glass feather she had made ( it went in the box for him, not on the ice!). She showed it to me and it was lovely.

Just add the Planet Hanyu logo somewhere and we're done!

He's so excited he got Shuzo all wound up too. Why on earth are we worrying? AS long as the boy can get his ankle back it'll be fine.

Look at us all. 12 hours ago we were all wringing our hands and crying (cue New Jersey accent) "No, Yuzu baby, don't do it! You'll break your legs! Don't 4F, I'm tellin' ya!" ...and now we giving him... Ideas. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance -- we just blew threw them all like an Indy car at a stoplight, didn't we?

Just goes to show, there's always a silver golden lining...

I still have some on my legs. Guess I won't have to shave them any more...

This.

and all our hair....

Maybe if he was British we could nominate him for honours like that. OTOH, the People's Honour Award he got last year is basically that, right? An accolade.

You think so? Money usually talks...and I'm sure they count on ticket sales to fund some things...so it'd have some kind of impact. I can sort of see the fairness argument, but only sort of. For it to be a valid argument, they'd have to ban all tossing of gifts/flowers on the ice at every competition,not just the Pooh rain. Incidentally, I understand maybe a little bit why Raf made his comment about the Pooh rain as I have been a coach (in a different sport though) myself. If your athlete knows the crowd is cheering for another and not them, it can be hard to deal with. On the other hand, it's not like Yuzuru is asking for fans to do this so as to gain advantage. It just happens, like soft ice conditions. It's the job of the coach to prepare his athlete for all the things that just happen, including Pooh rain. And Nathan seems to revel in it, it certainly hasn't psyched him out any. IMO the JSF commentary has nothing to do with any real effect the Pooh rain may or may not have had on Nathan and has more to do with other things.

There's a glitch in every plan...doesn't mean it was a bad plan LOL.

You know, the quickest way to get JSF's attention would be for fans to stop buying tickets to any events they organize. I'm pretty sure it would only take one boycott of, say, NHK Cup, and they'd change their tune on fans and Pooh's.

No. The major errors, like falling or popping a jump, screwing up a spin, or missing an element completely, are spanking everyone equally. It's the things like edge calls and URs, and all the intricacies of PCS scoring, where the unevenness creeps in. One of the ISU's stated goals of this scoring system was to take away the 'why did that guy who fell on a quad win over a guy who landed a triple' factor, and frankly I think it's the only goal they've achieved at all. But it's not improving matters, because all the guys who are likely to fall on quads are also all the guys who usually have program quality high enough they they should be in the top five or top ten otherwise. So then mediocre performances that have no falls, have to be somehow justified in winning other wise, and personally I think that this might be a factor in lesser programs getting higher PCS than they should. I guess what I'm saying is that I think the way the new system is set up, TES and PCS have unintentionally become opposed to each other in ways they shouldn't be.

He's really working at his English: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1463688771799/

Yeah. Of all of Yuzu's qualities to copy, Shoma just had to pick that one.

It's so obvious though. Take Jason for example. His failed 4S and his other jump errors dropped him from 3rd in the SP to 14th in the FS. That would never have happened under past scoring systems.

Okaeri. Well said indeed.

When you see all 4 of them together like that, you can definitely see that he was having a harder time at Worlds - he visibly slows down towards the end of the program compared to the others. Probably because of the ice?