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I saw a snippet of end of Worlds 2012, where the British commentators seemed surprised at the scoring, I think they thought it was a scandal that Chan won, and that Takahashi should have been first, and Yuzu second. That made me realize that I've only seen some of the performances from that Worlds. Is there anyone who has the whole Men's comp - FP at least, and SP too if they have? Request: World Championship 2012 in Nice, full competition.

Wow, is everyone going to Toronto?

The Ukrainian junior Pairs team, Kateryna Dzytsiuk and Ivan Pavlov, and their parents were just excluded from the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation. According to this website, Pavlov's mother trained to become a coach based on her experiences with her son - successfully training him to jump the triple axel and a quad jump, but since she couldn't get a job with a sports school, she could only get accreditation at international competitions. Alla Pavlova was their official coach at ISU competitions, but unofficial coach at national comps. At JWC their official coach didn't submit the paper work needed, so Pavlova didn't receive accreditation at the pair's first world championship. Their official coach left Kateryna in tears at the official practices, so they trained off ice with Pavlova during the competition to regain confidence, and that was the infraction needed to ban them. Apparently the wife of the Winter Sports committee and head coach of UFSF was Pavlov's coach until 2015, and she wanted revenge for him leaving her to be coached by his mother.

Do you guys think this is a continuation of the divestment of Hamada? She seems to be sending her top students elsewhere, at least part-time.Perhaps connected to Nobu's case?

Does anyone have the full broadcast of Fantasy on Ice 2015 in Kobe? In the media list there's a google drive link, but it's dead, so I was wondering if anyone snagged it and could share. In fact, if anyone's got full broadcasts of Yuzu's ice shows prior to 2017, I would love to get a hold of them. There are a lot of youtube videos of Yuzu's performances, and I've made sure to snag them (the Great Purge of 18/19 taught me that!), but I like to watch the whole broadcasts instead of all the clicking between clips. I've downloaded those available on Kaeryth's Ice Shows compilations lists, but a lot is on dailymotion, or nicovision, neither of which I can download, or even watch as easily on my tv, unlike youtube.

Don't the competitors at the Universiade have to be university students under the age of 25? I thought I read that somewhere. And yeah, it was so wonderful to see Mai win last year - I love her princess-y programs, they suit her so well. Unlike Yuzu, who emphatically claims NOT to be a prince...though Romeo is a sort of prince and he did that fantastically.

Yeah, the judges are scoring not based on what's performed on the ice, we totally agree on that. I sincerely believe that Yuzu and Javi drove them to desperation bit by bit (or podium by podium) between 2014 and 2018 . Yuzu because he kept breaking records, and Javi for following him up the podiums despite being from Spain, of all places! Clearly, if they judge fairly and without inflation, the wrong skaters win. And they cannot have that.

I think scoring is a mess just like the next fanyu, but remember, the GOE is different. Alena can get a lot more points per element because her top GOE is +5, while Yuzu was capped at +3 for the same elements . If I've understood GOE correctly, it adds up to 50% of the base value of the jump - which means that we're not talking 2 points more, but percentages points more. 5 is 166% of 3, after all.

I swear, that smirk looking directly at the camera in Parisienne Walkways just kills me ded every time I see it. It's such a knowing smirk - as in, he knows exactly what he does to us with that sensual program.

Whew! That makes me glad. With the Knierims and Denney/Frazier, the US pairs are in enough upheaval already. There's no chance Knierim/Frazier will be ready for the season whenever it may start, seeing as how they're unable to train together as yet. Calalang/Johnson seem to be on an upward trajectory, so that is nice.

Does anyone know whether Timothy Leduc has retired? Someone commented on the figure skating confessions tumblr that Ashley Cain-Gribble has gone back to being a single skater because Leduc has retired, but I can't find any serious outlets reporting on it, and I don't follow the two skaters on social media. I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about it.

Do any of you have a link to a shopping service for Satomi Ito-san's book? I haven't kept up with PH since Christmas due to a family member's serious illness and passing, but I did order the music booklet from Music with Wings thru one such link. The booklet is currently in isolation, as a friend picked it up from the post office and she got COVID-19 before I got back to town and could pick it up. It'll probably be May before I can get it, what with how the virus can live for so long on paper. Anyway, I wondered if anyone had a link to a shopping service so that I could order Ito-san's book from amazon.jp, since they don't deliver to Norway. I love embroidery, so I really want those pictures!

Maya Shibutani just posted on her instagram that she is in hospital after having a mass removed from her kidney. She went to the ER in October for a stomach ailment, and while being tested for that, they saw something on her kidney, and recommended further testing. The tumor is now removed, and there's a 60/40% chance it is malignant. I hope things turn out for the best for her, and wish her 'god bedring!' (Heal well!)

Welp. I guess we know why James/Cipres haven't been competing this fall. According to USA Today, the girl and her family pressed charges after seeing Ashley Wagner going public with her story at the beginning of August. Just goes to show how impactful Wagners bravery is.

There’re tweets about Kostornaia and a stalker on my twitter list, but it’s difficult to find details about it. Anyone know what that is all about?

Do you have links to the YT vids of SkAm? I signed up for Viaplay as they bought the rights in Norway, but was utterly disgusted at the sound quality of the archived vids. My tv app doesn't support the archive, so I have to watch it through the app on my phone via Chromecast, and you could barely hear the music of the skaters at the gala. I had to give up after 5 skaters, and didn't get to see Kazuki, Kaori, and Jason! Luckily the plan is to get up in the middle of the night and watch the men live at SkCan, so the sound won't be an issue then, but I am getting a VPN and getting rid of Viaplay, that's for sure!

Anyone know why? It’s probably an injury (what else could make him drop both GPs?), which is a shame. I might not like how the judges don’t call his URs, but he has shown steady improvement lately.

Hi, did anyone snag the videos of SkAm? It was aired on Viaplay in Norway, and their archive is absolutely atrocious. I tried watching the Gala today, and you can hardly hear the music they are skating to. So incredibly annoying.

Pamigena has found it! I put out the request on tumblr too, and she gave me the link there. Isn't the picture gorgeous? Now all my students will get to see Yuzu in his sakura fairy glory everytime I hook up my computer to the smartboard in the classroom.

I'm looking for a wallpaper that I actually have as my desktop wallpaper right now, but I am not sure if I ever saved it to my harddisk, and if I did, it's now in a folder with nearly 4000 other pictures. Can you help me find the file somewhere? It's a shot of Yuzu doing Haru Yo, Koi at Fantasy on Ice 2018 in Shizuoka. I've done a screengrab of my own background. (I feel so silly asking this, but I simply don't have the energy to look, and I really want to use it as the background on my work computer.)

I think it's a whole lot more probable Yuzu will do Japan Open rather than Shangai Open, especially now that Javi is confirmed as a participant, and even then it's pretty unlikely he'll jet off to Japan in the beginning of October. We'll just have to survive between ACI and SC as usual.

@kaeryth Thank you for bringing those charts into the thread, but honestly, I cannot look at them without getting so angry at the unfair judging last season. Any other season, fine, but after Saitama, wow, they really illustrate the unfairness. It's such a shame, because they really help in visualizing the strengths of the field in each event, and that makes it easier to predict who we'll see in Torino.

Leaving aside the fact that he's at TCC, I would love to see Shoma train alongside Jason. Jason is learning quads, Shoma needs to tweak his quad technique, and they seem to get along well and have known each other since junior days. Jason speaks Japanese, even. Too bad TCC is full to the bursting with top-level skaters, otherwise I think Shoma could really benefit from Tracy's stroking lessons and Ghislain's jump lessons, not to mention the general training atmosphere there. I adore Shoma, and had talked about him needing a proper jump coach and more challenging and diverse choreography, but I hadn't actually thought he would have the guts to actually leave Coach Fluffy and Coach Yamada. We certainly live in interesting times, that's for sure!

This just ticked in on my twitter list: Lucky kids! So much talent to learn from.

I spent last week in New York City, two blocks down from the Kinokuniya bookstore....And for the very first time had a chance to buy something Yuzuru Hanyu-related. I went a bit berserk - about 5 magazines, the first Ao Hono book, and two books on Shoma Uno. I don't dare think how much money I spent, but it was well worth it. Now I only have to speed up my Japanese learning so that I can read the articles. In the mean time, I have absolutely no problems just admiring the pictures. One of the magazines has pictures of every program he's done, all the way back to tiny bby Yuzu (soooo kawaii!!!) - but the pics of Let's Go Crazy are so steamy you practically have to be in private to look at them....