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I didn't know this fanartist, Mayumi. She uses pastel, doesn't she? In a similar style, Mikan : There is also Kaguya : https://twitter.com/kaguya4a/status/1307246172176670722/photo/1

I like the caption of the movement. It is so him and nobody else.

Oh, great! I'm not expecting her to resume competition though.

When judges stop underscoring even his world records?

In fact I didn't know there had been these reconstitutions of footages of his ballets. Here are Sombreuil's, and a few others : If you wish to have a better idea of how Nijinsky looked like, I think Nureyev's Petrushka (1976) is great, with two important warnings : it is not for the sensitive (it ends by a suicide) and I find it racist (but I wouldn't want it to be suppressed, because it is a major artwork; anyway it is not for children so no risk of putting racist prejudice in their young minds). Less depressing, I had sent more recent (2007) reconstitutions of three ballets : The Spirit of the Rose, The Afternoon of a Faun, and Sheherazade, all three danced by Nikolay Tsiskaridze at a gala. Warning : because of its storyline, the second is not for children; and the third is hot. I mean, really really hot. But in the first music notes you will retrieve the two reminiscences in Plushenko's program. Yuzuru Hanyu's Origin, as far as I know, was a tribute to Plushenko, not Nijinsky, but Origin 2 costume was inspired by Nijinsky's in The Spirit of the Rose, but this you already know as you launched the discussion on Planet Hanyu : (Page 5793 of General Yuzuru Chat if the link doesn't send there.)

From AxelSandwich, a double fanart linking this month's ANA crumbs and his "Schrödinger graduation" :

I think there's a few seconds-long footage of him an a good deal of photos. But there are elements or whole choreographic scores of works he danced. In this program there are two not so short musical reminiscences from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazad, choreographed for Nijinsky by Fokine. I wonder if the opening pose isn't from Le Dieu bleu (The Blue God), choreographed by the same to a Reynaldo Hahn music and created by Nijinsky, which choreo is lost. And there is also a shorter move from L'Après-Midi d'un Faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) on a music by Debussy, choreographed by Nijinsky for himself. And probably others I don't know or see.

A great video, because it exposes facts, then only concludes. Is this really his working desk?

In less than 40 min now, but I understand the video will be on Instagram some time later, that it will not be a live stream. By the way, having no Instagram account, I can watch only if I have a direct link to the post, so thanks in advance if someone can send it here when the video is posted. EDIT : @Anni Thank you for the link!

I'm so sorry I have to go! Wish you a good party, guys!

So, a new sponsor for Alena Kostornaia (Karisma, a training gear brand). And Anna Shcherbakova's dress is beautiful but she doesn't look very happy. What's happening?

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It would be such a loss for figure skating. He is such a gorgeous skater, let alone his looks.

No doubt, it's him. What a perfect skin texture! And how can he make such convincing "murderfaces" with such delicate eyebrows? I don't know when the photo was taken though. EDIT : from the comment (and if the automatic translation is accurate) the photo was taken at Pyeong-Chang.

Was the product found announced? Could it be simply a self-medication containing something prohibited, and she tried to make it pass-off as prescribed? I hope it is this.

In any professional relationship there is an affective dimension, and it is not surprising that skaters and their coaches have a relationship with child/parent aspects. Yet you are right to point out it is not a real parent/child relationship. By the way, Yuzuru Hanyu being a dominant character, I wouldn't be surprised should he have occasionally rubbed shoulders with Brian Orser, whatever his respect to him. And I really agree with the risk in idolising a coaching team. Evguenia Medvedeva did feel well there, while she seems not to have felt well in 17/18 with Team Tutberidze. It is her experience, with, by the way, means different from Team Tutberidze's.

Is there anyone he is not nice with? (Nice includes mischievous, of course.)

@yuzuponbitch's last video : "questionable" moments; I would say, moments which would have been embarrassing with other skaters, but are so irresistibly charming with Yuzuru Hanyu. Just what we need in this drought. And, how could I miss her previous one? I check her Youtube account regularly. Learn the alphabet with Yuzuru Hanyu. I wonder if there is not a "sound typo" with the K, though.

The most important : basically he implied he is there until 2022 Olympics. I don't remember when and where though. Changes of rules. There is a new "category" added between fully rotated and underrotated, q (for quarter underrotated, I suppose). I think there is a consensus on its likeliness to bring new unfair judging, favouring ones and underscoring others with ghost q calls. There was a project to equal base values between triple- and quad- Flips, Loops and Lutzes but they renounced to it. And there is a project of raising minimum Senior age to 17 but I don't know when it would start and I don't even know if it will be adopted. Not a change of rules, but the GP season, due to CoViD, is reduced to 6 "regional" GP, the nearer of the skaters' residency or place of training, and the final would have 12 skaters for Men and Ladies (Junior Grand Prix is cancelled, as well as Challenger Series). 4CC is not officially cancelled, though Australian officials have hinted that travel ban may continue after December 31, its official term to this date (if I am not mistaken). Anyway GP will not count for World standings etc. Yuzuru Hanyu has announced he will not participate. As to "Russian Drama", TeamTutberidze assistant coach Sergei Rozanov and skaters Alexandra Trusova and the Zhilina sisters have announced their switch to Angels of Plushenko (the latter's mother being recruited by Plushenko as a coach too), early in May with all sort of unpleasant manners on both sides. Then Alena Kostornaia, who had resumed training at the end of May with Team Tutberidze at Novogorsk (summer camp), who had not recovered her 3A and felt probably injured, decided all of a sudden on July 17th that she could not go on there, she phoned Rozanov to ask him if Plushenko had a place, then Plushenko to ask him if he would take her, and he agreed. She was three weeks without ice. She skated at Test Skates but only the short program (her long will be by Shae-Lynn Bourne and though it will be remote teaching, I have great hopes of something beautiful). Evguenia Medvedeva laboured a lot at these test skates, her remote coaching with Brian Orser and on-site with "Team TAT" didn't seem to work well. Yesterday, tadaaa, it was announced that she switched back to Team Tutberidze.

I understand it as coming out of the blue on Monday (as a possibility, and one of the preferred) but now I see this is not the only possible understanding, yours seems as likely. And I am also referring to Philip Hersh's interview, the character of the interviewer can indeed add some uncertainty to the whole. I don't think he would fake quotes but he can place them out of context.

A teddy bear made of Satomi Ito's towels inspired by her costumes for Yuzuru Hanyu, by a fanartist who also makes dolls houses with Yus and food etc. https://twitter.com/satomi_yuzu1207/status/1306431853700603905

If I understand correctly, on Monday she spoke him of four options including Eteri Tutberidze, because according to Brian Orser's words, she was spoking of Eteri and Evgueny (Plushenko), of which we can deduce she had four options, two of which were Sambo 70 and Angels of Plushenko (and maybe a third was in St Petersburg, and maybe the fourth was to continue with her interim coaches) and seemed to try to sort between these two rather than St Petersburg and her interim team. I believe Team Tutberidze was her own choice and Tatiana Tarasova was called upon to even things between the two former feuds. But, if Team Tutberidze was her own choice among Russian (that is, possible) solutions, I do believe she is bitterly missing TCC.

I do worry for the others and particularly for Jun hwan Cha who, having grown, was becoming a wonderful skater. He may lose a lot and even be tempted by an easier lifestyle with K-pop and all. But I am not worrying as much for Yuzuru Hanyu. He may have resumed coaching remotely with TCC coaches or not (Brian Orser said it was early when he spoke), probably his wealth of experience must make remote coaching rather useless. But not on-site coaching. I even tend to think he asks Nanami Abe to coach him, maybe not everyday, though she is no more a coach at ice-rink Sendai, she's now working as a choreographer only (but she is unlikely to refuse coaching him; plus as we now know he knows how to ask ). And he has Kikuchi-san for some off-ice coaching (there is no off-ice facility at Sendai skating rink, but he may use another facility in Sendai and may even have something at home). As a whole he is now under his own coaching direction, and when he announced he wouldn't participate in GP season, he may have decided at the same time that he wouldn't stir out of Japan until 2021 (and inside Japan, only for Nationals; I don't think he can skip Nats because it wouldn't be nice given the level of the competition this year, between Shoma Uno, Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato, for the three spots at 4CC (if they happen; I am very cautiously optimistic) and at Worlds. He may think he has to prove he is still the best, given he hasn't been at TCC for nine months and has learnt his programs remotely. But I think he is likely to go back to TCC early in 2021 (provided foreigners are allowed then, I tend to think they will), to prepare for 4CC and Worlds. He wants to win. And I think he is likely to value Brian Orser's, Tracy Wilson's and Ghislain Briand's onsite coaching, plus Jeffrey Buttle's and Shae-Lynn Bourne's help for polishing his programs, if indeed he chose them as his choreographers for this season.

I don't think Eteri Tutberidze is that bad. She "just" has those disastrous comments when a pupil leaves her. I am happy for Anastasia Tarakanova too, I hope she will soon be able to announce good news. And teenagers love to get Ladies make up, Alina Zagitova didn't fail and it was a pleasure to see her being made up. Hers I didn't find improper. (And I love Shiseido, so I am partial.)