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Sorry if I am undiplomatic, but I prefer real beauty (usually fruit of hard work and focus) to glorified emptiness (my judgement may be unjust, because I don't see much more of real social media than the pages sent here, which are generally more Yuzuru-related; it is just the impression I have of the whole). Krystian Zimerman never had social media. And Nikolay Tsiskaridze started his first Instagram page last month at 46, let's see how it goes. They, and Yuzuru Hanyu, and a few others, give us much more by their artworks when they come, than any social media with several daily "news". Fortunately for craving fans (like me) there are old videos, fanart... and Planet Hanyu.

Dream on Ice.

A cute .GIF inspired by Tanabata...

Judge not, certainly, but imagine. I am sure he is learning quite a lot in these months of "independence", and I am sure too, it is useful to such a (powerful, fast and active) mind to see where he is in his maturation, how he does by himself... It is not that I expect him to progress immediately an awful lot in all respects (well, probably on some), but to set his mind in order to progress even faster when he's back to TCC, and to lay the foundation of his future talents as a coach and probably a choreographer. A problem with modern prodigies, is that often they don't have quiet times to mature, to think in other ways, to "let the dough rest". This is why too, French government have since XVIIth Century, awarded different categories of artists with a (two to five years) residence in beautiful and inspiring Villa Medicis in Rome. And why Krystian Zimerman or Carlos Kleiber have refrained their careers. I wonder if he's skating sometimes with Mone Chiba? He cannot practise a lot (I have read, 15h/week but it was long ago) because of his conditions, can he nevertheless stay on ice or by the rink a bit more?

What does AF stand for?

Seeing her video, I perceived her as somehow distressed, but I gave "credit" for it to the circumstances of her coaches switch. Now I wonder. Do you know if there are medics at Novogorsk? If not, she may find easier to consult now she's training with Angels of Plushenko. And how she has grown! She said during the confinement, that she was 1m53 which was her mother's size, did she say anything about it since? Her face is still changing too.

I was surprised so I checked on a travel site, Delta and Air France still have direct flights between New York and Paris. The only thing is, you must take a test before the flight, or, if it is not available in the country of origin, at the arrival. (This, from 16 countries where there is still an epidemic.)

And as they are not high enough in rankings, they don't have the means to train elsewhere and will drown in said rankings... A vicious circle.

Maybe are they implicitly acknowledging there will be no 4CC in Sydney? But what about EC? I agree with @LadyLou : better no GPF and normal EC and 4CC (somewhere else if Australia don't want to let them in and out, then China seems to fit), than a mock GP and no 4CC. Well, better all of them, even with a somehow different GP, but... only if safety is really efficiently promoted. Well, maybe should it not be called GP, rather "special GP" or something approaching?

There's a good deal of videos of "cute interactions between Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno", but this one, though it has few explanations, has longer extracts and some I had never seen. This is not a video of Yuzuru Hanyu, but a video from a visitor to Sendai, showing particularly the monument to figure skating, with Shizuka Arakawa and Yuzuru Hanyu.

I never read she had not had offers. She may have had offers she didn't want, for instance requiring her to wear everyday training gear which don't really fit on her, or for morally dubious companies, etc. I don't think we will know until her, or her parents make public comments about that matter (If they have done, I never saw it, yet I tend to follow her whereabouts). She has already modelled, though.

Thank you so much for this awesome work! A little precision though. 160,000 is the population of the city of Grenoble itself, in France cities tend to be just the centre of an urban area. For Grenoble for instance, this excludes Échirolles (35,000 inhabitants), hometown of Kévin Aymoz, the third city in the urban area; the skating rink is at the "border" between Grenoble and Échirolles. The total population of the urban area must be near 700,000 now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenoble_metropolitan_area This is directly related to the thread, but mention CoViD nevertheless.

Yes, and that Jason Brown managed to make his way. But it was by a terrestrial border, not at an airport. This is why my question was formulated in a negative way.

If this recovery include enough training, she won't miss much with GP this year, and she may have a try for Europeans?

In the sense of false positive, they are less and less reliable because more and more people have had it without being ill and kept a reserve and will test positive for long (plus those who have been recently out of it and keep some fragments of RNA) without being contagious, but this is not a public health problem in matters of quarantine. In the sense of false negative, this can happen either at a moment when the part of the body searched have no virus while another has, or just before death, when the body has got rid of the virus but is dying of the inflammatory reaction. The latter situation being excluded, the former can be adverted by a series of tests at several days (usually day 1, day 2, and one or two others by the end). It can be expensive but I think it should be an option for people who greatly benefit of a shorter quarantine. And it is probably way safer than a 14 days quarantine without test.

From this tweet, yesterday was her last at Champéry. I suppose she's going back to Japan and self-isolate one more time? There's no way for her to reach Toronto? By the way, self-isolation could be safely reduced to 10 days or even less with tests along, why is this not an option (at a cost, as it is more expensive) available to travellers, in countries requiring self-isolation?

Unless they are allowed to attend GP NHK. But there are many other skaters who would be barred from this GP-ersatz.

Unless they protect the skaters from a contamination from the audience, by setting boards on the ceiling over the rink boards, because if they set such boards, the air from the stands would keep a convection on and over the stands, and the air from the rink would have its own circulation over the rink, with very little exchange. Otherwise I think you're right : the air from the audience goes up along the stands, then along the ceiling towards over the centre of the rink, then to the centre of the rink, this while I believe skaters are made particularly vulnerable to contamination because 1) they get exhausted, 2) they breathe very deep. Too dangerous.

Thank you! , Floor-chan was not made to marry Yuzu-kun if she wasn't ready to share his insane active rhythm.

I understand from this, that unless decided otherwise in September, Sambo 70 will continue to get funded by the Federation in 2020-2021. But, had the switch taken place on time, would Evgeny Plushenko have been (even partly) funded by the Fed, as his is a private school? Evgenia Medvedeva had to get a special permission to be funded at TCC. And, what is the usual tuition at Angels of Plushenko? I know it is really different on many items, but when they have a year at Vaganova Academy (one of the top-two Russian ballet schools with Bolshoi's; and the historical feeder of Mariinsky Ballet), foreign students pay something like 17.000€, boarding included, it has nothing to do with Western ballet schools. I saw an ad for a two-week-camp of theirs, by the sea, at 70.000RUB, that is around 1000€ by then. So, if annual tuition in his school is around 15.000€, plus the same for a program by a great choreographer, maybe less for the second program and little for the gala, three costumes (about 3000€), skates and commuting, and if she hasn't spent anything of her prize money from last year, she may just be able to pay for it... which would explain why she didn't ask any financial question when she called Evgueny Plushenko, just wanted to be sure he would take her at his school. @yuzuangel I don't think Sambo 70 would have the power of preventing her from skating, but they may chose the best GP spots for other skaters rather than her, and they may also be irksome if they manage plane and hotel bookings, if they are in charge of doing it.

I wouldn't protest against a new episode of the Soap Opera by the way... (Understatement. It was so well found!)

I see. Given the result, indeed he doesn't have to train them more. Even with the same positions, his spins are so varied because he models them to suit his programs. As very few skaters do so, I have the impression that it must be very difficult to move the arms or model the back during a spin? @yuzuangel I am always shocked at how small his GOEs are for otherwordly spins. 1 point robbed at every spin, make 3 points at the end of a program. Of course there may be faults I don't see.

So, Stéphane Lambiel's hair are still rather short, Rika Kihira is still in Champéry, and Stéphane Lambiel and Alexia Paganini are going Pairs?

Wow! I hope they had an interpreter though. For the spins, I read nothing positive, even less first hand, just some little jokes, even on this forum, suggesting a dislike. @Lunna If he just doesn't like to train them, maybe, when he's a coach, he will find a method to teach them pleasantly?

Oh, thank you! And thanks to @Fay! So this was maybe the first time he met Evgeny Plushenko? I have a rather stupid question, please forgive a dummie. I have read hints that Yuzuru Hanyu doesn't like spins. Yet his spins are such masterpieces! How can it be? Am I a bad fanyu if I love his spins, if I dream of his spins?