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  1. And if I understand well, Keio University is the great rival of Waseda University, Yuzuru Hanyu's alma mater!
  2. I have read a few months ago, that Yuzusorbet had written in 2017 or 2018 (when she visited Sendai) that Sendai Ice Rink were so kind as to forward him fans mail. I really don't know how they, and Yuzuru Hanyu, are viewing things. https://yuzusorbet.tumblr.com/ (I haven't found it with a very brief search.)
  3. This question may be more relevant to the General Skating Chat, but at the same time, it is highly unlikely to concern another skater before many, many years. After 4A sama's birth, will there be special order rules for programs with a 4A? For instance, a skater with a 4A planned in a given program will always skate last of his group, or there will be a resurfacing after his skate if he does jump it?
  4. You know what? He's really great. And so kind too, in spite of all the heart attacks, feelings of chaos etc. Because he owes nobody to show his progression in the birth of 4A sama, yet he still gives this to us, after that hard quarantine with probably not the right food or the best training conditions etc. Let's hope too, this will shut up those who pretend that his speaking sincerely and openly of his progression towards the jump is just PR...
  5. Welcome on the Planet, @Bubble_Tea_Yuzu !
  6. There must be a problem of recruitment. In fact, in general all organisations recruiting by co-optation and not bound to difficult results, tend to aggregate mediocrities. On the other hand, athletes and coaches are bound to hard work etc, and there tends to be less mediocrity among them maybe?
  7. I wonder if you wrote it with double meaning? I would say this "spitting in his face" expression is more literally true (because people who don't wear the mask, often don't get it that one often spread rather big droplets which are way more dangerous than the smaller ones we spread even with a mask) than figuratively, although they also fail to understand how their behaviour increases other people's anxiety, which effectually weakens their immunity. At least for thoughtless skaters and coaches. Of course from ISU there is a complete disregard for athletes' health (and we knew it before this epidemic but here it became a real clownery, I mean, how would a screenwriter have had a screenplay accepted, even for a comic movie/short story etc, had he "pretended" that ISU's only responses to such a health issue would have been, in 2020 to organise a physical meeting between attendants and athletes, and in 2021 to invent a new hymn, etc? Nobody could have believed it.) And also a hatred towards Yuzuru Hanyu specifically. But I have a new possible explanation. Quite often mediocrity hate excellence. Yuzuru Hanyu's skating excels in way too many points, plus his character too, while perfect in manners (which maybe exasperate them even more), is both of a real great man (the sort they hate most) and not a compliant one (I mean, he complies with rules, not with their poor state of mind). Sort of Miss Minchin attitude, for those who have read A Little Princess, but there are so many other examples in literature — and in real life, unfortunately.
  8. I have it. It must be a question of browser?
  9. Oh yes, so beautiful and inspiring, like him! Thank you @Hydroblade (or whoever did it)!
  10. This time he won't get a public call at "early hours". I wish him a very happy year, with success in his new school and more shows!
  11. To be honest, what is unusual is rather that he was such a cute teenager. Most teenagers are not very good-looking, then some become handsome when growing into men. By the way, Shoma Uno too was cute as a teenager (and I do think he's still a teen in looks). Not to the same point of course. In fact, this goes very far, because while finding nearly all babies equally cute and inspiring "must protecc' at all costs" feelings, I saw a photo of Baby Yuzu and really, I had never seen such a cute baby. And then such a cute child, then such a cute teen, and now such a beautiful (and still cute at moments) young man.
  12. Well, should he represent Japan without JSF support or China or Korea, probably even less, hardly more than 80, wouldn't he?
  13. Once, facetious French journalists managed to have ("unstoppably talkative") royalty and horse races journalist Léon Zitrone, interview the great pianist Artur Rubinstein. Léon Zitrone could hardly open the mouth. Now, that's because of course Léon Zitrone was too much in awe to dare to interrupt Artur Rubinstein, as I suppose would be Massimiliano Ambesi with Yuzuru Hanyu. One could try with Alena Kostornaia who's also a skater and certainly sympathetic to him, but I'm sure she would be quite as much in awe as would be Massimiliano Ambesi. PLUS Yuzuru Hanyu may have a reputation of talkativeness in Japanese, I'm not sure it would happen in English. PLUS Italian (if you believe the French) is a special language which can also be spoken with hands. (In our first years of marriage, my husband and I would sometimes have two simultaneous conversations on different subjects going on, one answering the other while the other was answering the first etc. Quite funny but tiring.) Not sure it is this video?
  14. Thank you! There's a link to an "Athlete's Rights and Responsibilities Declaration" : https://www.olympic.org/athlete365/app/uploads/2020/06/Athletes-Rights-and-Respnsibilities-Declaration-.pdf I "liked" particularly, on the Rights side, 2) and 9) (when you see Japanese skaters who can't even express their admiration for Yuzuru Hanyu or they may incur retaliation), and on the Responsibilities side, 3) : will Yuzuru Hanyu feel compelled to declare himself the blatant discrimination he's facing (and Shun Sato too)?
  15. I don't like the word disinformation, but @Melodie once said, "trust in Yuzu, but do not trust Yuzu". Meaning, we must take what he says with his whole history of ways of communication, rather than literally. Here it seems pretty clear that if he jumps 4A with only 1/8th rotation missing (that is, 45° missing), and knowing he has no prerotation, this means he's already got a pretty ratificable 4A, but "he doesn't have the 4A yet" in his own meaning of the word, that is, a fully rotated jump with nice entry and transition. @Henni147 If ever ISU judges ratify a badly prerotated, underrotated jump as first 4A in history (I mean, a jump not respecting ISU written rules) I think I will really go mad, and not stop at protesting solemnly to Guinness Book of Records etc against any acceptance of such a farce. Which I would do too, of course. And some do prerotate Axels, I've seen one from a skater usually known for his good take-off technique but who tried to take off from a spread eagle instead of his usual long and ugly preparation, and the jump was clearly prerotated.
  16. The end of the interview gives me the impression that the delivery is near, and that the mother is not 3A hime but really Yuzuru Hanyu sama himself. During birth I think nearly all mothers have these worries and doubts and learnings. EDIT : Here's a subbed video of the interview, I haven't watched it yet and I don't know if the subtitles are faithful to their words. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].
  17. Sure that if he wants all quads, he will not only have to throw a 4F some time in a less important championship, he "will have to" get 4 Olympic Golds. If judges dare ratify a << prerotated 4A from another skater meanwhile, I think I will be ready for real action, not merely protesting. I am waiting for a complete translation but I had the impression that he would not attempt a 4A during WTT, even in the Gala. I just hope he will skate to his satisfaction, which is much more demanding than mine (I find some of his programs "with errors" to be wonders while he aims to absolute perfection).
  18. I don't think there will be a Ten to Chi to watch before Olympics, but I wouldn't be surprised by an Origin 2.0 watch if Madame Tussaud's new figure is successful? I hope they will redo the figure because this pose doesn't suit this program, though.
  19. Masquerade is a song written for an anime series, isn't it? I wonder if this anime got better known thanks to Yuzuru Hanyu skating on it. And it would be so great if there was a DVD or a box of the series with the song skated to by Yuzuru Hanyu. Maybe the same for Your Lie in April with Ballade?
  20. This makes me wonder. Yuzuru Hanyu has declared reasons not to come back to train in Toronto (being alone to train for frequent run-throughs). They are certainly true, he never lies. But Canadian borders control may be another, and he may have avoided evoking them not to embarrass Canada in their border control policy (there is a political politeness at stake for a country who welcomed him for so long, and probably also the consideration that a good border control has been one of the most efficient policies to this date, though of course we cannot speak for him). Given that, I now wonder which reason weighs more, and what he would do if border control would permit him to enter (and should there be no danger for Canada or himself and his mother). Well, this is somehow casuistics, just a bit relevant because of Brian Orser's interview. He says his student doesn't come because of border control, while this student has publicly declared he wasn't coming because of ice time organisation, and Brian Orser may be right though.
  21. Well, if Kaori Sakamoto's scalping judges is the new standard of "skating close to the boards", then it must be said this is not a "fake news". But then nobody but her is "skating close to the boards". (Must I say I love her audacity and humour?) How funny antis have to resort to easily debunkable fake news, showing by this how superior Yuzuru Hanyu's skating is in every aspect. An involuntary, simplified version of reductio ad absurdum somehow.
  22. It's a bit out of topic but I believe the English way of calling all desserts pudding, may come from the fact that before "contemporary" (Victorian) kitchens, the only elaborate desserts a "normal upper class family" (other than royals and people of rank/upper-upper-gentry with enormous kitchens with real baking ovens) could make, were "puddings", that is, either more or less fluid creams, custards... and cakes which can "bake" in a mould in a normal cooking chimney. What we French call "entremets" (which could be translated by "between courses" because it dates from times when meals were served by "courses" in upper society, that is the table covered with dishes in which people could help themselves, but sherbets were also in this category for instance). It included the famous jam puddings and other plum puddings. Meanwhile in France, until the end of XVIIth Century desserts were called "le fruit" (though fruits were a mere part of it) and epistolary genius Madame de Sévigné would complain that upper middle class were calling it "dessert" (meaning "table clearing"). Her complains were not attended to.
  23. Thank you! Unfortunately the automatic translation looks available but doesn't work for me. And what's the first video suggestion? An interview of Nikolay Tsiskaridze! Had it been the other way, I would have become a fanyu while he was still a junior, not ten years later!
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