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Welcome to the Cup of Russia, which takes place on October 20-22 and is the first Grand Prix event! This year, it’s held at Megasport Arena in Moscow Cup of Russia is an international senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating series since 1996. Since 2009, it has also been known as the Rostelecom Cup, because it’s sponsored by Rostelecom Co. The Cup of Russia is a successor to the Prize of Moscow News, an annual elite international event held in Russia from 1966 to 1990. Among male skaters, the holder of the biggest number of wins by far at the Cup of Russia is Evgeni Plushenko (1999-2005 and 2009), who has 8 CoR gold medals under his belt. Javier Fernandez, who has won 3 gold medals at the CoR (2014-2016), comes a distant second. Alexei Urmanov and Brian Joubert won two each, while Alexei Yagudin, Johnny Weir, Tomas Verner, Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan and Tatsuki Machida won one each. This year, there are 12 slots for male skaters at the Cup of Russia. We will shortly introduce the skaters competing in this competition.

One more then

Here's the information about qualification for the Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics_–_Qualification Japan's got three spots for men's field, and considering Yuzu and Shoma are two stand-out athletes, both will go, barring some awful misfortune.

Total craziness. I dare anyone to top that!

I wonder if this qualifies here

I need what is left for intensive therapy pre-event....

That sounds extremely comforting...

If I survive that fun on the arena, I'm immortal...

Oh dear. Dear lurkers, we didn't mean anything we wrote for around half a dozen pages now. It's just banter - us winding down after a stressful weekend. Team Yuzu, we love you - you are welcome to lurk as much as you like!

This is... spooky.

I second this! Give us his smile!

What are you doing to our hearts now?

Ok, all your sins are absolved with this...

Me?

Need I have asked, indeed... (biting her tongue not to mention any bananas)

I can see @Hydroblade is back with a vengeance and has found a kindred soul

Hmmm, red or white?

The more I try to follow what's going on, the more it seems as if you're having a drinking party with lots of different convos simultaneously... GIVE ME THAT WINE TOO!

I love him having fun, wish it happened more!

What the hell is going on here?

Hmmm, shall we hosts provide defibrillators for visitors?

Happy Birthday, Tracy!

I think he did have two right gloves!

Just ignore the other SM for a while. actually, the Russian forums are not so hard on Yuzu - apart from sports.ru which is the trolls' realm anyway. Brian and Yuzu acknowledging the injury and lack of practice might have helped quite a lot.

Да не говори, сама поверить не могу!