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Masquerade is from Phantom of the Opera.

Pudding is just generic for the sweet course at the end of the meal. It can be anything; not necessarily what we know as "pudding". It's just the final course, and started to be, basically, sweet by the end of the 1700's (when meat ceased being the primary ingredient). Custard has a different history, though I certainly consider it pudding.

I, for one, would love to become a little Canadian. Did anyone say something similar about Javi? Or Jun? Brian is a coach, not a dictator. He respects his skaters and allows them the freedom to make their own choices (which, when I think about it, is kind of Canadian).

No! No!

Do try to find some way to watch other than streaming ISU. I don't want them to think I support them holding competitions of ay kind in virus-stricken countries in the middle of a pandemic. I'd rather pay iSakura.

Well, I'm really happy to see Jun on that list - as #4. Love that boy.

Thank you thank you!

Thanks - though I don't know how to save this to my computer.....

Does anyone know how to download any of these pics????

Don't give the ISU clicks!

It's possible, even though the China Fed says all their athletes were vaccinated prior to Worlds (and I don't doubt that, per se) but possibly just before they flew. Perhaps one of them got Covid (which you can get, even if vaccinated - you just are not going to die) and the entire team is playing it safe especially with Covid conditions in Osaka.

Yuzu is my zen.

Lacks speed? What? You don't think Nathan's SP was overscored? Go back and watch it again.

Any 2022 Olympics boycott is going to depend on what happens with how things go down in Hong Kong - probably more so than the human rights issues regarding the Uyghur. Hong Kong, any moves on Taiwan, more moves in the So China Sea and religious genocide. Hong Kong is far more important to the Biden administration than it was 4 months ago. I don't know what other countries might boycott purely on the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong - certainly not Russia - but it is a very real possibility.

He can do the 3A in his short -

He does more than just "not hurt" a fly. Yuzu has done an amazing amount of work and dedicated royalties from books, etc., and sales of his stuff to the reconstruction from the earthquake of 3/11. He donates enormously in both time and money. He is generous and a bright light.

Nathan Chen is athletic and has good, if stiff, jumps. But that's not reason he beats Yuzu. It's the biased scoring. Pure and simple.

Not done- I don't think they've ever changed the location of the games, but for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, The US did boycott and didn't sent a team.

Jihnny has been complete trash for sometime now.

In a translation of Yuzu's comments to Sponichi News - "My mistakes were not as huge as the points I lost" being the first time I've read him saying what the rest of us have been saying for years. He isn't saying it in so many words but he does know he's chronically underscored.

There is also plenty of talk here that the US will boycott them.

No half hoping ! Full hope that he in in Toronto before September and at ACI!!!!!!

Yuzu won't mess with ISU. He's destined to mentor younger skaters and then become Prime Minister of Japan. Also - there is speculation that the US will boycott the Beijing Olympics because of the massive human rights abuses (the Uyghurs) and their horrific destruction of Hong Kong's independence and democracy while threatening Taiwan. And incursions into the So China Sea. Wouldn't it be something (and really sad for the athletes) of we did boycott?

Was he standing right next to us or what? I could have shot this from where I was (though I do see me for a mili-second, so I didn't shoot this - just saying.)

Wow.