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1 hour ago, Tee said:

 

If I looked like Yuzu, I’d check myself out in the mirror, too. Can’t blame the man.

I just realized - Yuzu will skate his FS and then it's a 40 minute wait to see how it'll stack up against the current top 3. The thought of having to just wait for that long makes me feel physically ill. And because misery loves company, I'm sharing it with all of you.

1 minute ago, Melodie said:

Must be Hungary’s petition.

But why would that matter for figure skating? I know speed skating, short track, and figure skating are all overseen by the ISU, but why on earth would an issue with one of the other two sports matter for FS?

12 minutes ago, kk98 said:

what if he skates a world record and smashes into the podium

I mean, the WR is a 224.92. I'd love to see him beat it. But even then, that only puts Yuzu at a 320.08, which Nathan only needs 206.12 to beat.

Now, Nathan hasn't gotten there all season, but we all know Rocketman scores higher internationally than Mozart did. And actually, Yuzu's layout maxes out at a 237.60, with a fully rotated 4A, +5 GOEs on everything, and 10s across the board in PCS. If Nathan can get a similar score to GPF 2019 FS, Yuzu would need a 243.74 to beat him. Now to podium, on the other hand... yeah, that would almost certainly do it.

(Have I mentioned today that I like crunching the numbers on things?)

3 minutes ago, Faithyu said:

Has anyone seen the starting order for the free skate with times? I have seen the starting order, but couldn't find a version with the skating times on it.

https://results.isu.org/results/season2122/owg2022/FSKMSINGLES-----------FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

32 minutes ago, airi said:

I don't wish a bad skate for anyone, so I think a chance for podium is small... People keep mentioning Yuma and Shoma, but there are others there too... He would have to beat them too, and it's no problem if he skates clean, but the first jump is you know what and yeah... (he will land it I just don't think it will happen here sorry doesn't mean I won't cross my everything for it ) (also there's no way to avoid the fact that his score will be affected anyway with placing in the short :<)

 

 

I don't think bronze is out of the question. Silver, either, but that's less likely. There are four points between fourth and eighth right now - and not to be rude to any of those skaters, but a clean Yuzu will easily beat all of them. Shoma's looking great, but he's never skated the 5 quad layout clean in competition. I don't think it's out of the question for Yuzu to make up a 10 point difference. Yuma may be more difficult to beat, especially if he skates like he did in the team event. Nathan, sadly, is probably not possible to catch without several large mistakes. We'll just have to see what happens. I just hope Yuzu has a free skate he's proud of.

I'm actually glad I have work today (although I'll admit I didn't sleep well at all last night). Gives me something else to focus on, a way to feel useful.

I am so glad that Yuzuru, at least publically, seems to be taking the popped jump in stride. He's got a very mature view on things. If there's nothing he could have done better, then there's no sense beating himself up over the outcome. Hearing his take on yesterday's events is comforting. Amazing that we're still drawing strength from him even during this low point on the rollercoaster.

Also glad to have supportive coworkers. Yesterday afternoon, I showed her a clip of Yuzu in practice and she said "he glides like an angel." This morning I've had two of them ask if I was okay after seeing the results.

Edit: I also highly recommend watching H&L from Helsinki. It helps to remember that his finest free skate of all time was done when his back was against the wall.

14 minutes ago, rockstaryuzu said:

Okay now I'm panicking for Keegan. After the week he had, there is a strong possibility of disaster here...i sure hope 24 hours was enough for him to shake the travel kinks out

You were saying?

3 minutes ago, Yuzu_GOAT said:

Quick what BV changes could he make to give himself a fighting chance

The highest possible score while still working with TenChi’s choreo and keeping it to 4 quads would be changing 4A to 4Lo, 3A2T to 3A3Lo, and 3Lo to 3F. 
 

But it’s so unlikely to get him on top of the podium that I am now firmly on team 4A. I just want him to skate for himself now.

I can’t with the music “when the sky comes falling down…”

If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that he can go for broke on the 4A without having to wonder what it’ll do for his chances at gold…

Damn Salchow snake.

No, replay operator, I did not need to see it again in slow-mo

Here we go! Good luck Yuzu!!!!!!

My heart rate is 132 just sitting here watching skating. Deep breaths…

Breathe in, breathe out

Just thinking back to four years ago… I had no idea who Yuzu was and no idea he was about to blow my mind when I watched the SP. Hopefully he leaves my jaw on the floor again 

1 minute ago, Hydroblade said:

Pooh engaged in my arms now.

It's happening guys

I’ve had one of the Poohs I originally bought to toss at Worlds 2020 out for most of the SP. He is very comforting to hold on to when I get nervous. 10/10 would recommend.

Ice resurfacing already???

And then Yuzu’s group. This is fine.

Good job Kevin! He’s had some rough SPs, glad to see this one went well on the biggest stage!

Donovan’s through to the free! Well done!

9 minutes ago, rockstaryuzu said:

In hindsight, stress eating an entire bag of popcorn was a mistake. In case anyone was wondering.

As Yuzu himself once said… Boyang’s jumps are amazing.

2 minutes ago, KendallKlaire said:

Gotta start a game, how many times will I roll my eyes at Johnny and Tara's comments about Nathan? So far they have called him "a Trailblazer" "The king of figure skating" and that he "raised the bar artistically"

Oh. Oh my.

Yeah, I’m glad I have the commentary-free Peacock stream.

Here we go!

I’m… oddly calm? What will be, will be. Good luck, Yuzuru!

1 hour ago, Tee said:

Why does he turn into the Softest when he speaks English 

This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

The elements are "kind of" the same? What does that mean???

I swear, I'm going to have a heart attack by the FS.