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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...

but he wasn't even wearing a naked costume!!! seriously, it is a mystery how social media sites filter content...

One thing we never thought about:

Yuzu not in Japan yet, Javi commentating...cripes, they're really trying to kill us all off in one go, aren't they? And much thanks to Mura for that ice-level video, giving all of us a chance to see Worlds ice from a skater's perspective.

"If it wasn't for Yuzuru Hanyu, I would never have become a psychic."

Now that would be trolling at the ultimate level...

I dunno guys, I think it's just as likely that he flew out earlier in the week and is already in Japan. That makes the most sense for him, in my opinion.

I think you did a fantastic job on the interview, and asked really good questions.

I can just picture a hurricane of baby booties flying off those needles in all directions, and miles of cable-stitched lace trailing behind

Google Translate also has it's moments. It usually translates his name as 'Hanyu string' or 'Hanyu knitting'...and when the -senshu is there, he is suddenly a 'string player' or a 'knitting player'....needless to say, most of the time I'm re-translating the Googlish into real English in my head afterwards. So yeah. Yuzuru Hanyu, competitive knitter, that's him. I can only imagine what it does in reverse, from English to Japanese...

Okay, the puppeteer with the doll is just.... what are they trying to accomplish there?

That only means my theory was wrong, doesn't mean he wasn't there. Also, hasn't Jun gotten awfully tall? It looks like he's grown a foot since the Olympics. No wonder he's having boot issues.

Yeah, it's totally him. Look at that hand position. OF late I've developed the theory that part of the reason he doesn't appear so often in these photos is because he's the lad behind the camera...I mean it would make sense when you think about it. Where better to hide? While we're on the topic of this photo, I sure hope Gabby has a good Worlds. She needs to catch a break.

So did anyone else get the error message 'Comment cannot be posted unless it contains full-width characters' when they try to post to the Kose blog? Does that mean I have to Google translate my comment into questionable Japanese?

Oh that was so cute! His voice in that recording sounded really warm and relaxed and like there was a little bit of a laugh behind it. Really nice.