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Given how much he seems to have bowled you over, it has to be Let's Go Crazy.

All these Hanyu tuxedo fan arts have me knocked dead. It's said that a tux is perfectly designed to show a man's physique off to best advantage...with Yuzu that would go double.... Technically speaking some of those outfits are morning suits, but who cares? They look great!!

Wow, they must all have fallen in love with him from that description! I would have

All will be well...with this Laureus thing, Yuzu's gotten his obligatory silver...or metaphorical equivalent, anyway. So yeah, Worlds will be just fine.

"Golf is a good walk, spoiled." -- Mark Twain

That's right, she's a fanyu, eh? Well, look at it this way: now she can be our agent on the inside.

Gotta agree. Golf isn't exactly the world's most demanding sport....even if a golfer comes back from an injury, so what? Big deal. I thought for sure it would have been McMorris. Objectively speaking, he's the one who had the greatest distance to cover, in the shortest time, in his comeback. But there are a LOT of golfers on the board of the Laureus. Well it was fun while it lasted...

So, who actually won? McMorris?

Phew! That's quite the layout. Meanwhile, somewhere in the night Yuzu's saying "Hold my beer..." (Not literal beer) and making plans...

Which is great, however what I was wondering is, if someone were to plan a program to get the absolute maximum points possible in an SP, how high can they go? What's the most points that can be gotten, full stop?

Is that a score that's even possible? Anyone know what the max score under this new system might be?

Gotta hand it to that app...it may vary wildly at guessing Yuzu's age but at least it's consistent in its estimation of his gender.

How long do you figure it took Yuzu to teach Javi Raya to do that fingers to the eyes thing correctly? Also, happy first anniversary of the double gold, Yuzu! Your achievement is all the more unique for the fact that it gave so many millions of others so much happiness as well.

So glad to see him, but...did anyone else wonder, like I did, whether Yuzu had even heard of the Laureus before he got nominated? The award is new to me, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he wouldn't have heard of it before either.

If it weren't for Yuzu re-introducing me to watching FS, I wouldn't have had any stress relief for the past three months when I badly needed it. But figure skating ( and Yuzu videos) was there for me and I'm grateful.

Yuzu also didn't go to Worlds last year, which gave him the time to organize Continues. This year he's competing, so he's got his hands full already. At least, that's my guess.

He'd RULE that ceremony!

Some more perspective on the Laureus. This doesn't directly relate to Yuzu, but I found it interesting to see how other nominees view it. What McKeever says here about being intimidated because athletes usually live in sweats and not tuxes is an interesting comment that could apply to Yuzu too. (Even if Yuzu does have that lovely formal hakama now.) Brian Mckeever nominated for Laureus

"Javi sitting with him in the K & C" --> I'd pay all the money to see that happen, but it's never going to happen.... Maybe one day in the distant future if they end up coaching together...

Wow, really? That's a lot of chocolate for a sports club to have to process.... I can't help but think it would be so much easier for Yuzu if all people sent him by mail were postcards with no return address...he doesn't even have to open those, just read them.

He's probably enjoying quality time with Ice-chan, as usual.

The good thing is, I won't need to take time off work for the FS. The SP, though...maybe I should just book the week off anyway.

What makes me laugh the most about that is that is the quality of the language used...must be a Google Translate special. In reality, we can predict all we want but no one knows what'll happen at Worlds. Ice is slippery. I know Yuzu's going to do everything in his power to win, and that's a force to be reckoned with, and that's all I need to know.

Autumn Classic was pretty cheap. I think I paid $60 or $65 CDN for two days, all access. The price is probably dependent on where they hold it though - so far it's been at smaller suburban rinks. If it came to one of the big arenas, I'd predict the price to double.

The one thing that really stands out is the length of Shoma's 3A compared to the others....besides that, the data looks like it's all over the place...no real correlations between, say length & speed or height & length or GOE to any of them. I'd be curious to see a longitudinal study of jump data for one skater over a full season or two, to see how reproducible their results are (i.e. are jumps actually 'consistent'). Because at the moment, what I see in this data is that each and every last jump by each skater is a unicorn. None of them is like any of the others.