Fay

Well, it's not as bad as others - just wrong for her age and program. this must have weighed tons

And whoever decked a very young Yulia Lipnitskaya in this lingerie for a Nutcracker program made a wrong choice there... it just looks wrong.

No kidding - that's some costume. How about this one? ?

Carolina Kostner has had her share of horrendous costumes too

God, thank you guys for setting up this thread - I've had some laugh by now. Someone found Adelina's Olympic costume frightful - how about her GPF one? for better effect, have a look here...

Go ahead, just open it

@gladithank you so much for the translations! Catching up on them!

The same request...

Now I'm sorely tempted to know who you allot for my favourite Russian grannies

If Yuzu's ever seen in it, you know which country wins by a landslide, right?

Are you suggesting FS Eurovision?

No surprises there. I expect neither back now...

Apparently, Aliev jumped 4Lz, 4T3T and 3A. Kolyada the same, but landed 4Lz two-footed. But that's hearsay.

Sunbathing on the ice?

I feel sorry for so many Russian girls now...

He was very special even as a kid. I know that I wouldn't have been able to withhold from a bit of showing off.

This boy is every bit extra... How old was he then, 8, 9, 10? and rather than show off he preferred to hide his skills and his prowess?! How many kids would have been able to do the same?

Worlds 2013 FP Notre Dame de Paris Rus ESP (shortening it, since the commentators chose to blabber on about the Team Event at the Olympics – so I’m keeping only the Yuzu parts). - … Brian Orser sends off Yuzuru Hanyu onto the ice… - … and now the Japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu opens up the penultimate group - … there’s a quad! 4T. - He pulled it through, didn’t he? - He did! - 4S. - The exit wasn’t perfect, but… - He understands that he should go for the quantity – if Fernandez does three, he should at least do two. - 3F. He’s fighting, he is fighting for everything. - If he doesn’t learn to fight for everything, he won’t become a champion - 3A was very good, no doubt about that. - Yeah, 3A3T in combination. - I wonder at such athletic perseverance… - 3A2T with arms aloft. - He pushes his level of difficulty as much as he can. A very talented skater. - Well, perhaps this lutz can be criticised since there he jumped it off the inside edge, not outside. - The Ina Bauer is beautiful, it sets off the program, it’s a very nice component. - He seems to never tire, but now you can see that.. - Well, of course, he tires… - The guy has a unique muscular structure, because to hold such a program for 4.5 minutes… - He’s got a cramp in his leg… - Yes, he has… - Well-done, he fought through it! - You know I’ve been watching him in this program all this season – just imagine, he does two quads, then 3F, then a spin and the step sequence, and then he starts with the second half – a combination, another combination, yet another combination, and two combinations with 3A, and one 3Lz2T2T – the jump layout is super-difficult and very valuable. And he does that at 18 – how does he cope with it? Look at his body type – his muscle fibres are not so prominent and bold, but he’s got both explosive power and he’s got plasticity too. - Yeah, he doesn’t really get strained, and when he does, he explodes with power. Well, he strains his muscles, when he was saving his 4S, I could see his muscles in relief… - Well, of course, he has those muscles! But compare him with Joubert… - He’s got long muscles – Joubert has got short muscles. - He’s got very flexible and elastic muscles. - But these long muscles provide him with levers… - And they’re light, they don’t weigh him down. - Well-done, well-done… 3A3T… - Unfortunately, his 4S had quite a problematic exit, so he might get a downgrade, or get 7.4 instead of the base value for the quad. He was 15 when he won the Junior World Championship, and last year, he won the bronze medal at his debut World Championship. Yuzuru Hanyu, a young man from Sendai who trains with Brian Orser in Toronto. David Wilson and Jeffrey Buttle were his choreographers. I think Jeffrey Buttle will congratulate him when he leaves the Kiss&Cry – Jeffrey is here. Brian Orser is sending off Javier Fernandez onto the ice now. Yeah, he didn’t manage to show his season’s best here, since his 4S was downgraded.

Worlds 2013 SP Parisian Walkways Rus ESP - Now this is an interesting moment – this is a very talented boy, he’s very young and very talented, but all that talent is best revealed when he skates everything irreproachably well. Relaxed arms and shoulder, free mind and look – that’s what makes Yuzuru Hanyu special. - Now Brian Orser sent him off not quite in a Japanese manner… - Just look at his season’s best – 95.32 - Yeah, yeah, 95.32 – that result seems untouchable to me. I think he got it at a GP event, didn’t he? - Yeah, he got this result at the NHK Trophy in the SP - He beat Takahashi then, didn’t he? - Yes, he beat everyone there. - Including Takahashi - He also beat Takahashi at the 4CC – he was on the podium whereas Takahashi wasn’t even close to it. Hanyu came second at the GP Final. His short program is Gary Moore’s music. Parisian Walkways. - (Yuzu falls on his 4T) There you go, no 4T! That’s it, I think, it’ll be hard for him to fight for the podium place at this competition. - Well, hold on a little… - Oh yes, there’s also the combination… - He jumped it so recklessly… - Very easily and with such speed – I think he overdid it… - Yeah, I was thinking ‘where are you flying?” - He entered his 3A just as fast, but he executed it quite confidently. - But here you are, there’s another mistake, hands down on his 3Lz. - He lost his combination? - He did. - That’s it, he’ll be very far away! - 10th or 11th? - Now he can make a stop and think! - And a smile, smile: “Never mind, things happen”. This is the way things should be – it’s not the end, there’s the FP coming, he’ll have his wins. But today two bad mistakes – one is glaring, the other is half-glaring, since he touched the ice with his hands and there was a fall, he fought for it, but these two mistakes won’t allow him to be among the top five – he’ll probably be among 8 to 10. - He’ll get a good component score for his age now… - Yeah, the component score will be good, his skating and gliding are… - They are no longer junior, they’re senior-level. - He understands what his interpretation and choreography should be like. - Well, yes. He jumped 3A cleanly as we see in the slo-mo. There’s a slight underrotation - And there he has a huge lean so he put down his hand not to fall down. That’s his second mistake. - So he lost over 6 point of the technical score, because he lost on 3T around 4 points and there will be negative GOE for other mistakes – around 4 points, so all in all around -8 or -10. - 75.94 He loses to himself by 20 points – he can skate by 20 points better. He’s 6th so far – he’s ahead of Takahito Mura (???) and Florent Amadio.

4CC 2013 Notre Dame de Paris Rus ESP … but now with his eyebrow plastered, in close-up, Yuzuru Hanyu, who turned 18 on December 7th. So he was 17 when he skated at the GP events, but now he’s 18. Brian Orser and Tracy Wilson… are the Japanese Catholics? Perhaps, one of the most… perhaps, the most talented skater of his generation. Notre Dame de Paris. 2010 Junior World Champion, 2012 World Bronze medallist, Yuzuru Hanyu. Just look at the way he glides, how weightless and easy it looks. 4T. No, he couldn’t pull off his 4S. You could see it, couldn’t you? The way he entered the jump, from a 3turn… He lost it a bit at the entry. 3F – he did it. Just with no preparation at all! We see the second bielmann spin today. The Filipino Martinez was the first, and now Hanyu. He executes triples with such ease as if they were doubles. (Yuzu singles his last 3Lz) – Yeah, another failure. Yesterday, when I tried to explain his failure to jump 3Lz – he singled it as he did today – I suggested it was because of his natural talent, he does everything with such ease that he doesn’t expect it to happen… A very, very talented skater! He skates the natural way – so he doesn’t concentrate on it too much because he doesn’t concentrate on his elements at all. He does concentrate on his quad, but all the other elements are a piece of cake for him. I think that’s the danger lurking for every wunderkind – a wunderkind always grows and will they turn into a wunder-adult... I don’t know what the relationships are like in Brian Orser’s group, but I think the fact he trains along Javier Fernandez, a totally different skater, who’s worked hard since he was a child, he started with the 30th position, if you see what it means, in order to become a World Champion… a European Champion, sorry! It’s different generation!... The difference isn’t that great – what is it, 6 years? Ok, 6 years, but it’s different generation! Nonetheless, he should pay attention to the way Fernandez works, what Fernandez does, and he should communicate more with the Spaniard – he’d be bound to tell a lot of useful things about his life. He’s a super-talented boy, he was born in Sendai, he trained in Sendai, I think, and his home skating rink was damaged during that horrible earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, so he spent some time in Yokohama, and when last season was over he moved to Canada, to Brian Orser. But I’d like to remind you of the Japanese coaches who nurtured Yuzuru when he was a child – Shoichiro Tsuziki and Naname Abe. By the way, Naname Abe is a high-class specialist, and if you take top ten Japanese skaters, Naname Abe will feature among their coaches at some stage. This is a very good partnership. Orser is an intelligent and considerate coach… I don’t know… I can’t give advice to them, but I think perhaps it’s worthwhile making his programs easier, get rid of the crazy difficulty of his programs? 158.73 Do you agree, a quad, another quad, then 3A and 3A both in combination? That’s incredibly difficult. Maybe it’s worth making things easier? Orser understands that it’s difficult to compete otherwise – his component score is good, but not so good…

4CC 2013 SP Parisian Walkways Rus ESP … But it isn’t Nan Song from China who’s the principal rival for Takahashi. He’d say he hasn’t got any principal rivals, as he keeps saying ‘My main rival is myself’. But for the rest of the world, he’s got several rivals, and one of the most essential rivals is this young talented boy. He turned 18 on December 7th Yuzuru (Yuzuri – sic!) Hanyu. Look at his season’s best – 95.32. I believe that’s his result at the NHK Trophy SP, which he won. He was second at the GP Final (2012), he couldn’t beat Takahashi. He’s extremely talented and unbelievably brilliant. We’ve just had Takahashi skate – Takahashi is 26, this young man is 18, they’ve got an 8-year gap between them and they’re really very different, but each is fantastic in his own way. (literally, each is a genius in his own way). 4T. Wow, axel, with no preparation, off the steps, off a 3turn he swings his leg and there’s the axel. (Yuzu singling his 3Lz) Well, well, well! Ok, we’ll speak about it after the skate, about what happened here. Well, Yuzuru Hanyu, who trains with one of the most successful coaches currently – Brian Orser. Brian Orser made Yuna Kim an Olympic Champion, though she keeps saying that she’d had wonderful teachers in Korea too, who’d contributed into making her as great as she is. But she became the Olympic Champion with Brian Orser. He also made Javier Fernandez the European Champion. And now he coaches this young Japanese talent, who unexpectedly failed his 3Lz3T combination having made gorgeous 4T and 3A before it. Well, dear friends, I’ve an association with Arvydas Sabonis, a brilliant basketball player of the USSR team. He was disliked by many people, because some elements other players spent weeks and months on were done came with ease for him. “Why do I have to work so hard and he does it so easily?’ Yuzuru Hanyu is an athlete of the same scale. He’s a huge natural talent (he’s a genius). One can see it by the easy and free manner he skates and just breathes on the ice, how naturally he behaves and feels on the ice, the way he holds his arms, shoulders, turns his head and looks – this isn’t choreographed, he wasn’t trained to do it, he behaves so naturally, he can’t skate otherwise. Well, he’s another Japanese natural talent. He isn’t Daisuke Takahashi – Takahashi worked hard to achieve much of what he does, and since he did expend so much effort on it, he’s more profound in his skating, in his experience and his interpretation of the program. Hanyu is what a 17 or 18-year old talent can be – he was born with this. That gives him a huge advantage over the others, but it’s also a drawback. That’s why he failed his 3Lz. He jumps an easy 4T. Then he makes a 3turn and jumps off the same leg into his 3A. 87.65. I thought he’d get slightly less. Well, it’s Osaka, Japan, so it’s understandable… and then he enters his 3Lz and he thinks he’ll pull it off. Nevertheless, he didn’t, but he didn’t get upset, he went on skating in character in his music…

А я рада буду Сеймея увидеть, как и Шопена. Мне и вправду было жалко обе программы в позапрошлом сезоне терять. Прошу прощения, что пропала, уезжала надолго и была почти без интернета. Ну без хорошего точно.

Hiya, sent another bit via gfm

I suppose crying together is therapeutic.

I'm not yet back, but I will be this coming weekend. 😊