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Of all different sizes and shapes. I've volunteered at a charity gift-wrapping booth before...wrapping soft lumpy things is not easy...

My hat's off to the volunteers who had to wrap all those...

Enjoy the competition anyway! There'll still be lots of good stuff to see!

How lovely! What a great charity.

The waggy finger is indeed a thing of beauty. Which brings me to 151. His beauty. Yes it's shallow of me, but have you seen his lips, skin, eyes, bone structure, hair, hands, etc?

Oh, that's so creepy! Poor Yuzu. It's hard for me to understand why someone would get so carried away with hate that they'd do that; it's only a sport after all.

145. For starting a trend for hydroblades and high kicks after axel landings this season. Suddenly everyone's doing it.

Sure. What I was wondering was if it was more than just someone being mean, I guess....like is throwing a towel at someone meant to be a particular message ( like the booing) or was it just general meanness.

Could someone explain what it was supposed to mean? To my Western eyes, it doesn't look like anything. Is it as bad as, say, ice hockey fans dumping a beer over a player's head that they don't like?

Canada is a country of immigrants, most of them coming from countries where English is not the first language spoken. Yuzu's experience is common here. It's difficult to overcome the language barrier, and it goes both ways - the people he met here at first probably wanted to help but couldn't speak Japanese either. The part that really strikes me though, is Yuzu winning big competitions less than a year after the Tohoku Earthquake. He had to overcome real, incredibly huge hardships to get to that point. It makes his PC gold look small in comparison.

The Google Translate version reads almost like a poem. It's very fitting and beautiful. But it made me cry for him all over again.

All the more reason we should celebrate when our heroes succeed, don't you think?

Minoru Sano just recently said in an interview that Yuzuru gets injured because he's always pushing his limits, and honestly i think that's true not just for Yuzu but in any sport. The best ones try the hardest things which means they have the greatest risk.

123. Sit-twizzles and Ina Bauers.

I was going to address this one to Yuzuru, but then I realized it's pretty much what I want to say to all three of them: "To Yuzuru, Evgenia, and Junhwan: May you all always be able to skate exactly the way you want to, to as high a standard as you wish to set for yourselves, for as long as you desire to continue. with love from @rockstaryuzu, www.planethanyu.com." Pretty well covers it.

This is all of us...but it's so much fun!!

109....but, seriously, guys, The Waist.... (it bears mentioning twice!) 110. For the way that you know he must be blushing if he's lurking and reading this list at all...

85. For his Ghana commercials, and the way he enthusiastically participates in the chocolate making and eating, and all the soft fluffy warmth that goes along with it. 86. Origin opening pose and moves. Finally, choreo that reveals the fierce warrior side of Yuzu. I just realized those two points are polar opposites. Oh well. Yuzuru is like Shakespeare's Cleopatra - "Age cannot wither, nor custom stale, her his infinite variety...."

71. For the way he thinks about his wins, saying in interviews that his medals were something he and his fans have achieved together. Never change, Yuzu.

Why would YouTube do that? CBC has officially purchased rights to show that. YouTube is out of control.

Please, God? Yuzu deserves so much!

I don't wanna be that person, but after Helsinki, the thought occurred to me that it all seemed like it was going a bit too well..

And...it's a tiny hope but still a hope...maybe it raises the chances of him doing 4CC? You never know...

In light of yesterday's announcements, I have this to add: if it weren't for Yuzu, I'd never have known how much it is possible to care for the fortunes of a stranger. I've never met him, and yet my heart rises and falls on his ups and downs almost as they were my own. Being Yuzu's fan has taught me some new dimensions of my own heart, that's for sure.