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And an even cuter Jun - with Eng subs

I haven't travelled back in time on this thread so don't know if anyone posted the translation of the full Javi interview about Yuzu (sorry of this is a repeat). This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Jun posted a thank you on Instagram - you have to cut and paste it. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ1lsnDPiFG/

I was asked to post this - you have to cut and paste- it's Tracy and Brian with Jun and Jason https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ12DmoOjcG/

You could post this on the Team Korea page, too, but I want to thank you for the Jun stuff (Yuzu, too, of course, but Jun-focused content is hard to locate - I hadn't even thought of posting his name in Hangul to find anything, but good idea.) And FYI: the videos are not available in the US, so I can take my computer to another country to watch them - it's an NBC thing, They don't want anyone in the states watching anything figure skating if it's not through them.

While I'm freaking out waiting to see how Yuzu really is doing and hoping for the best, I am trying to think that if he can't do the 4A here and he's injured enough that he can't go to Worlds, perhaps he will go back to TCC and train for the 2022-2023 season, just so he can do his 4A in competition and win the GP and get his World championship back (this is all if he can't get it this year -). He's 27 and otherwise very very fit. There's no reason he can't fulfill his dream.

One of the other skiers had a horrific crash and received a compound fracture of her tibia and fibula two days ago. That snow is cursed. (She's already back in the states for surgery-)

While we are waiting to see Jun (and the rest of the team) in events next week, someone posted a tweet today with a YouTube link for all of Jun's skates and interviews. It is not just a few videos - very thorough.

How is he taller? His true height must have been underestimated in previous reports, because a male does not get taller in their mid-20's.

Brian is in Seoul with Jun and will travel to Beijing with the Korean team- I guess they are also traveling with the speed skating team.

They wrote me back - and clearly don't care to even look. Dear Barbara, Thank you for contacting the IOC. International Skating Union (ISU) is responsible for selecting the judges of the figure skating competitions. Please refer to the following document for more information (point # 7). https://isu.org/docman-documents-links-2/2022-beijing/qualification-systems-3/22994-figure-skating-v1-0/file Kind regards from the support team at Olympics.

I'll go ahead and send another message regarding the general scoring insanity - but, hey, we are Fanyus. Of course we will complain about how they are treating Yuzu. Indeed, they are not "shorting" the accomplishments of other skaters. Just Yuzu. They should be made aware that they are noticed. (Also, I doubt any complaint regarding the judging - and the panel for Men's is particularly troublesome - will move the needle. And I doubt they will notice that it's the same person complaining about scoring and their continued behavior towards Yuzu.)

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I wrote and suggested they look at Wikipedia - such an anti-Yuzu bias. (They'd have seen that Keegan has a son, not a daughter, on Wikipedia.) I, too, wonder where this came from after they've even been using him for promotional purposes. (And I can'r even read any of the press on these Olympics, it's all NC.

The "jump machine"?

I think this is the only forum I could post this on. I feel very sad for Mikhail Kolyada - he must be heartbroken. So many Russians have gotten Covid and flaunted safety protocols. Others in the Russian training rink where Misha trains at are also testing positive. While I am sad for him, my almost instantaneous reaction to that news was "Thank God the Russians couldn't compete at 4CC." Jun will not have been exposed to any of them. None of the four on Team Korea will have been anywhere near a Russian skater for months. I am grateful for that.

Javi commenting on Jun in 2018. (Also Yuzu but that clip hadn't been on the thread I copied, so bonus!)

There are anti-TCC people posting negative comments about Jun and his score on the 4CC Men's SP thread saying he didn't deserve the score he got and saying it's only because Brian is his coach. It really distresses me that people can be so negative when Jun has overcome so many obstacles the past two years and worked so hard. And skated so beautifully.

Jun's SP - brilliant. Super high energy. He is in first.

Jun is at such a disadvantage competing against skaters that have had almost unlimited ice time and near constant in-person coaching (Shoma, NC and even Jason, though I think Jun is technically better). Manifesting a decline in pandemic restrictions and fingers crossed that Jun is back at TCC in late spring, if not early summer. It's very heartening that he does have his TCC coaches so it seems almost a sure thing that he'll be there ASAP.

From the ISU https://isu.org/figure-skating/news/news-fsk/13928-nation-special-korea-the-heritage-of-yuna-kim?templateParam=15

BTS helps us all -

And now there's only half of the Ghislain that went to Seoul. Wow, he's lost so much weight! (Go, Jun!!!!!)

This made me happy to see a Yuzu-centered Olympics article- https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1246072.shtml This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

I hope so - but it's for her graduation thesis so I would suspect it won't be completed for months (since she is in the data collection part of her research). If anyone is invited to do an interview via email, be sure to ask. She (they?) must know about the Planet. If not before, then certainly now. So I hope so...