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Happy 2nd Year Pro Anniversary Yuzu My No 1 memory is filled with love, appreciation and laughter. It's getting up very early and staring at a small screen in a tiny Angers appartment during IDF and watching Re-Pray with two fellow Yuzu loving friends. Getting so pulled into the show and actually pulling the screen forward and giggling as we all reached for the screen at the same time. We gasped at the same times too and so enjoyed watching Yuzu's marvellous skating and story telling. Cue Pooh Rain.... No 2 Is a 'Thank You' for all the stunning photo shoots. From high fashion in Gucci to the wonderful photos in the In Focus Exhibition and Aera shoot. GQJapan (I luckily have a copy. Its lush!) Then pictures for Sekkisei and Citizen. Thank you. Really .... for those photographers especially who realised that Yuzu's waist was an asset! No 3 Yuzu's continued connection with his fans. That he always strives to create something magical for us, includes things we wish for ie the sound of his blades on ice or the pre competition warm ups by the boards with Pooh. Also let's not forget the English subs. Cheers Yuzu. XXX We appreciate it all !!!!

Going to Worlds so will scream my head off for him.

Deniss. I like his haircut too. Still with jump issues even after the help of Ghislain.

Congratulations Yuzu. Wishing the Best figure skater in the World the best marriage.

That whole photoshoot of Jun is fantastic. Looks great in all the outfits

Always loved him. Pure class.

Loved Kao's skate although the forward on his 4T nearly gave me a heart attack! Well done Kao. 👏 👏👏👏❤

He was medicalally assessed but not heard anything further. Do hope he's OK. Ps. Hearing he had two bouts of Covid previously and wondering if this affected lung capacity.

What a hell of a competition. Top 3 skates were just supurb. My boy Shun's set so breezily skated. Great 4Lz to start then 4T 2T light as anything. Only minor issue slight travel in last spin. The short really let him down sadly. Keegan. A humdinger of a skate. Controlling his huge jumps. A tremendously high death drop to FCSP4. He was smiling ... really enjoying the skate and the moment. 4T way deep the 3A spectacularly saved. Crowd went mad to his final spread eagles and hydro. He's quality. Phone out in the kiss and cry as usual. A proud dad. What can I say about Kao. Exciting but wild. We jokingly call him chaotic Kao. Not tonight we don't. Amazing SP followed by a wonderfully confident FS. Forward on the opening 4S hung on to the 3A after that he put everything out there (plus a beauty of a 4T) to win that Gold. SP marks helped and there we go. Kao survived both programmes, was confident, jumps were on ... unbelievably spins were too. Well done Kao. Flipping Fantastic. ❤❤❤

Concern from Rocker Skating about the state of many competitors at the end of their sets. It was bad in the pairs but the men seemed even worse. The altitude was really affecting the skaters. Some on their knees at the end of their routines. Most notably Boyang who was gasping for air towards his end moves and literally went flat as he finished. He raised wobbling and looked about to faint. Very worrying and something the ISU needs to address for the health of their competitors.

Canadian Nationals Keegan Messing wins his second Canadian Nationals with an FS of 163.38 and total score of 257.78. Massive 4T at the start of his programme but then a flat fall when he tried it again for a combo. Also fell on 3L. Everything else fine. Choreo sequence was a beauty spread eagles and his hydro. He was overcome by emotion at the programme's end. Crowd standing in appreciation. Hugs from his parents and a fab back flip for the crowd. Silver went to Conrad Orzel who fought hard throughout his programme with determination to get on that podium. FS of 151.30 Overall 237.46 Didn't actually see the third podium place of Wesley Chiu so must rewatch. However he had a massive climb up the leaderboard from 11th in the SP to 3rd overall and total points of 226.15. Stephen Gogolev also had a big leap up the board to fourth with 220.13 overall. Nice interview filled with love with Nam and Keegan following the competition. Must say I was very impressed with the commentary by Kevin Reynolds in the men's. Knows his stuff and how to talk about it eloquently. Hope all scores are correct. Its extremely late here. So late our road's family of foxes are out and about and barking....

Gogolev: Oh crumbs... didn't land anything ... fall and pops. Ouch! 49.97 Orzel: Mistake on the 4S, 4T OK. Lots of arm waving in the STSQ 86.16 Into 2nd Place. Circelli: I love watching him skate. Only a 2A but very nice set and so expressive. Brian in kiss and cry clapping him. 75.73 Chiu: Popped first jump and fell on his axel. Spins are very nice. Apparently feeling sick so possibly off form. 65.44 Sadovsky: Hard watch. Fell on 4S and 3Lz. Axel pop. Agggghhhh! I could cry. 61.48 Messing: (Nam cheering him on as he did for Corey). After the first jump 4T foot down on landing Keegan was determined to give a show and crikey the 3A was huger than huge. Blast off! 3Lz plus 3T crowd going mad! Great spins. Crowd on their feet. Me almost in tears. Gonna so miss him. Into first 94.40 Must mention Matthew Newnham who went into 3rd with 79.75 Beautiful skate and well worth a watch.

Final group on ice for Men's SP at Canadian Nationals. Good luck to Corey, Roman and have a blast Keegan.

Quite some support he's getting there. Very nice interpretation and the music really suits him. Playing to his strengths and lots of the lovely Ina Bauer's. 😍

Jia Shin wins Korean Nationals with Yelim in second Jia's scores SP 70.95 FS 142.06.