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El mensaje de agradecimientos de Yuzuru Hanyu al recibir el premio ISU de "most valuable skater" (¿patinador más valorizable? ¿o de más valor?) el sábado 11, aquí con subtítulos en español : Mucho más viejo, una entrevista despues del final del Grand Prix 2014, por Matsuoka Shizo (con quién compartó su medalla de oro) y con Nobunari Oda :

Thank you! Do you think this gift was meant as a pun between carp and love in Japanese, to wish him love?

Not a very smart attempt at manipulating minds.

Though... "Hanyu, who wore his “Origin” outfit in the latter half of the season" doesn't seem to come from a fanyu or someone very familiar with figure skating. And we learn ISU had chosen MIki Ando in their jury... on purpose?

Yes, it could have many interpretations. I don't think he lacks romantic love to have a full range of expressions as says @Pammi, in the sense of Marius Petipa asking Mathilda Kshessinska if she had already felt love : we could see it at Nice in 2012, and he was so young. But since a few months I have felt on him sometimes expressions which I interpreted as him "lacking something" (but I am so bad at interpreting people's expressions, though his are always so open and varied), it was particularly visible in the CBC interview where it made him look older during a moment. May Mr Tsuzuki mean that, after having quietly decided not to love before 25 (which would then have been such a foresight, and a great knowledge of himself, according to @Henni147's parallel with Apollo), then decided to hold on one more Olympic cycle, he is now experiencing a lack of a love and life companion? He didn't know him only as a child : if I understand well, he coached him also after the Great Earthquake. But saying his former pupil is lacking romantic love, may be akin to opening Pandora's box, to continue with Greek mythology, given the number of fanyus who would love to be this love.

Thank you so much! We saw it at IdF practice. And about "indiscipline", I am sure it is fine for herself but I dreamed of seeing her skating with Yuzuru Hanyu and now I am not that sure : wouldn't it exasperate him? (And it is not as if it could be changed : it rather sounds like a prerequisite for her being collected.) After all, he trained with Javier Fernández but not to skate together.

Which may be opened (with conditions) for athletes and teams from lesser affected countries. Not to speak of the diplomatic interest of it.

Why not in common with China and South Korea by the way. Why not Australia too, to prepare 4CC in such special circumstances. It could then be labelled International competitions by ISU (who need cash) allowing results to be used for 4CC and Worlds qualifications.

Quarantine doesn't need to be suppressed, if a special quarantine is set up, not allowing skaters and teams to ramble everywhere, but assigning them to specific hotels with specific rules and organising their transfers from and to airport, and between rinks and accommodation. I don't think the virus will completely disappear all of a sudden, it will remain endemic like other coronaviruses (some of which, by the way, are being included in SARS-CoViD 2 numbers where tests are less sensitive) because in all countries except a very few it is now spread among the population.´So, many countries will have to address the issue considering this, but they don't seem to go ahead very much. By the way, about rinks, I have spoken with my husband who taught me air convection was thermodynamics, not fluid mechanics, that yes the air circulates (the fastest wind along rows) and the centre of the rink being the warmest (and most contaminated), unless obstacles are set at the vertical of the rink on the ceiling.

In fact maybe Shoma Uno will be able to? I don't know what Swiss is doing.

So, even senior GP seems over, because if a skater cannot ice-train during 14 days (why not, at least, reducing the time and test at the end?) after each GP trophy, he/she cannot seriously compete for the next, then for final. Unless ISU get satisfied with one GP medal to access GPF, or unless the skater trains where he/she doesn't need self-isolation after a GP.

Shoma Uno doing 3A+4T!

The woman seems to admire Eteri Tutberidze. Though the latter´s method is also based on muscle memory and she has been harsh on pains (it seems that the team is now assisted by medics, so chronic problems are less likely to get serious), she is not abusive and one may hope An Xiangyi to be trained there, though normally they don´t accept foreigners? There she could be happy and make friends. I don´t think she questions the fact of being destined to figure skating. And after all, in other times (and still, in many countries, or in some regions of China itself) people were destined to such or such career because their parents were in. The problem is in her mother´s abuse, insanity, and being prevented from meeting people of her age, or to make any projects for after her skating career. There was a different but somehow similar situation in ballet, with Nadezhda Pavlova, a little Chuvash girl in a family of ten, who was detected at the age of ten as having potential for ballet. She was taken to the Perm Academy of Ballet, the third best ballet school but notorious for its culture of abuse (pupils were often beaten). She was also rejected by her family. She was such a desperate little bird out of the nest, that her teachers had pity on her and made up a family for her, yet she was somehow broken. From the age of 15 she was acknowledged as one of the best Russian ballerinas, and in front of the family TV, little Nikolay Tsiskaridze fell in love with her and decided to become a dancer (she was quite moved to have been such an inspiration, and they could even dance together). Being always used to obey to others, she accepted to marry her main partner "for PR reasons" but he was jealous of her fame and kept belittling her and... abusing her. Then she sought psychological help and found... her second husband (well, it may look unethical) and she seems much better now but still so frail... Yet, one essential difference is that a ballerina´s career lasts until 42 or more. Not a skater´s, which can be viewed as an advantage (for instance by Alena Kostornaia who wants to study Medicine after Beijing) but can be terrible for a girl who has been prepared to nothing except becoming a champion at 20.

There are viruses in the air, it is proven, but from what I understand, there is so little that only people gathering in a very confined atmosphere during hours incur a significant risk of contamination (logically, the more viruses one is in contact with, the likelier the contamination, and the relation should not be linear; as far as I know, in the few cases I read about of contamination by aerosols, the virus concentration must have been high, most contamination occurring by direct contact or by droplets). It seems that even in rather cramped trains, subways... contamination is rare. An ice rink, with its huge volume of air, actively circulating thanks to the differences in temperature (the air just above the rink, where skaters evolve, probably less) is probably not considered a confined atmosphere for the transmission of the virus, even more so with a reduced attendance. Above all droplets should be avoided, they can travel very far, so supporters should start to learn humming instead of screaming! If someone with a real knowledge of fluid mechanics could confirm this, anyway I will ask my husband tomorrow.

I have often read the content of this brief interview after last ACI, has the video itself be posted? https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/yuzuru-hanyu-reveals-quintuple-jump-training-harness/?uxreference=playlist

Thank you @sallycinnamon I am so bad at German (I wouldn't imagine Swiss German though. ) I had noticed there were cooking lessons in the skaters training at Champéry. (from teamchampery.tumblr.com) (In fact I was thinking of another photo, of Deniss Vasiljevs cooking at Stéphane Lambiel's but I didn't find it.)

I did like the Twilight program. It was fun, entertaining, and Alena Kostornaia excelled in. Quite a teenage program but she is a teenager and I like to see a teenager dancing on a teenager program.

Original! Though with three parts in the program, some will criticise "Daniil's cuts".

Test... For me it works.

Fakewards! How well found! Can I borrow you this new word? Edit : @Whoopiewoop Thank you! I may make good use of your permission.

I should have seen another .gif, with Yuzuru Hanyu fixing his earphone on Shoma Uno's ear before a PyeongChang interview.

I may be pervert. Would it enter among the possibilities, that medals (and why not Gold) would be granted to Chinese skaters (Sui/Han maybe not needing an overscore to win) instead of an American man skater, in case China should accept to hold at least GPF? I mean, there is obvious bias in judging, one should be blind not to see it, even when as ignorant as I am. But this would go farther. It would imply something organised, that is, a conspiracy.

One question... Has not China said they would have no international competition before the end of the year? That is, December 31st? But GPF is supposed to take place in Beijing. I wonder if they are trying to relocate it.

I would be OK for a reduced number of GP trophies this year, rebranding CS as GP, with (a few) more finalists to balance the lack of previous competitions. Skate America is scheduled in Las Vegas, Nevada, which had done quite well until a recent outbreak but not really big to this date, do somebody know why this outbreak is happening, and how it is addressed? At least they are testing enough, considering the number of cases. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/nevada/ But how to get there? Customs and immigration in big American airports have an awful reputation of treating people like cattle, are they taking efficient measures to prevent contamination during transit? Though there are direct flights from several Canadian cities (among which Toronto of course), from London and Frankfurt, or from Seoul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran_International_Airport#Passenger

I read Kelowna had renewed its contract for another couple years? Anyway I am not under the impression it will be held, for two reasons : 1) Skate Canada had some time to copy 4CC organisation and hold safe Worlds and they couldn't; I wonder if they have learnt from this experience; 2) Canada seem super cautious on opening borders, and no country have tried yet opening borders only for people with no symptoms AND good predictive biological markers, so I don't know if they will have opened their borders in October. And I am not speaking of attendance (sorry for satellites who would dream of seeing Yuzuru Hanyu live), just the skaters and their coaches, because attendance can very well be local and limited.