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The number of tests too. Yet I am under the impression that the real number of cases has augmented.

Japan Open 2019 was Javier Fernández' last competition, and the only time when Alina Zagitova skated Cleopatra clean (and I loved it).

I must admit I had seen this program of Nobunari Oda's (so funny!) but not ever bothered to try to tell the jumps, let alone entries. I think I have much progress to do in watching skating programs.

His name is Hanyu. Yuzuru Hanyu. I didn't find any thread and didn' t want to open a new one. This report is about the origin of the name Hanyu, and probably his family. To sum up, there are two origins of this name Hanyu, one better known in the Kanto region, deriving from the red clay, Hani, that can be found there; and one lesser known not very far North from Sendai, in Osato (Yuzuru Hanyu's paternal grandfather being from Tome, further North from Sendai, and his father having grown there) — plus people, such as a well known chess player, whose name writes the same but reads Habu. In Miyagi, Hanyu is the name of a district of Osato, meaning "having wings", and it seems to originate from a shrine where birds were sacrificed.

I got first out of topic. I don't think he would consider he has the 4A, if it is "naked". We can expect a choice of music allowing some change in skating rhythm to prepare it, but not a no-entry jump; and maybe an easier transition, still meaningful in the music, as he did as a teen.

Thank you, I didn't know all this. For me, apart of being French, Kevin Aymoz is a skater with physical (flexibility...) and artistic abilities maybe closer from Nathan Chen's and who does perform in his competitive programs. It will never be as enthralling as Yuzuru Hanyu's, he will never bring you in another world or make you believe ice is a magical surface on which you can dance everything better and easier than on any floor, but he's so pleasant and entertaining. As to his twizzle sandwich 3A, it is a completely different jump from his back counter one and I love both. Like if Empress Triple Axel had become twins in his harem, but not identical twins. By the way, we can tell he won't approach his 4A with mere crossovers, but I wonder how will be the entry and the transition.

They also propose FedEx sending, maybe would it get easier to you? I live in Germany and chose DHL and the book arrived a few days later. I know there were additional restrictions later but are these not suppressed now?

Plus now, she will have (part time) Rika Kihira and her beautiful triple Axel and her good quad Salchow (and global technique), both to get motivation and to observe.

And I hadn't even noticed it! Is there anybody else doing it?

With Yuzoponbitch's authorisation :

I like this too, also because Chopin himself would cut pieces of paper to make a shadow theatre to entertain George Sand's children. So he would quite like it.

So there are two people in the world now, able to do this move! Of course I very much doubt Kevin Aymoz will attempt it in competition but I love the tribute sooo much! (I didn't find a cockerel or a French flag as smileys, so I thought the red wine would do the job. )

The mark of great geniuses. And an excellent incentive to dig into "how things work". I can really relate. Chopin is so rarely played well, first. And skating. Well, when I saw it I worried a bit less than you because I had seen him in other programs. I used to watch (Singles) figure skating and (Ladies) artistic gymnastic with my mother, who was a "casual fan" but for many reasons I didn't watch it later. Yet I loved ballet and found a Russian forum about Nikolay Tsiskaridze, which I translate with automatic translation, and which have some figure skating threads, only Russian, mainly Ladies. I wasn't impressed by Evgenia Medvedeva and even Elena Radionova, but in early 2017, I saw this Junior, so graceful at so young an age, Alina Zagitova, so I started following this thread more regularly. Then, came the "3 Aces" and their different personalities caught me and I started watching their programs on Youtube when one video was missing in the thread, and at some time in 2019, I saw Hope & Legacy from Helsinki, and it was so beautiful! Yet, as the comments said it was his most beautiful program, I lacked the curiosity to watch more of him (I still wonder why) and just re-watched it from time to time. I had not endeavoured yet to differentiate jumps, to observe details, just a global impression. Then, there was lateness in the uploading of the 2019 GP videos on the Tsiskaridze forum, so I watched them on Youtube and at Skate Canada, there was this Yuzuru Hanyu and I decided to see what he was doing now. Whaw! From then, I watched a great deal of his videos, I discovered GS but didn't register, then came the GPF robbery and I was so shocked I decided to register on GS to share it. Then I saw what a troll cave it could be (well in tune with Alexandra Trusova's short program after all). At first I didn't have occasion to be much there, then I registered here though I had some prevention of partiality, and I don't regret it (maybe some satellite do), and I decided "not to feed the trolls" and didn't reconnect on GS. Aaand, I must confess, I watch so much more Yuzuru Hanyu than Nikolay Tsiskaridze at the moment, though I find the latter handsomer () and he would dance so wonderfully and he is such a great teacher. And I know he likes figure skating but I have never read any name of a skater from him, so I don't know what he thinks of Yuzuru Hanyu. We are really blessed to have several G.O.A.T. And Yuzuru Hanyu is so nearly perfect off-ice as well.

During years (from 2017?) he was speaking of a-certain-jump-nobody-had-ever-done-and many-deemed-to-be-impossible but it never appeared... until three attempts (out of anger for having been outrageously robbed with the short program scores + absence of his coach who had his passport stolen during transit in Frankfurt), the last nearly fully rotated (but he fell after each), during practice at Grand Prix Final 2019. The two last attempts on this video :

I don't dare to use them, but I love to watch them (don't speak me of French rationality etc). I understood somewhere he was already back there, after self-quarantine and before the Sendai Rink closure, so it must be back again. What do you expect him to do, guys, when out of reach of Papa Brian's and Mama Tracy's permanent observation? And even, it was announced for Montréal.

Thank you! What does "immediately" mean for the Ladies' Lutz?

For an Olympic medal (or even assignment, in Russia), certainly. For a GPF (not medal), wouldn't one quad or a 3A suffice?

I tend to think his programs are already chosen, and he is practising them in Sendai, under Zoom supervision by TCC coaches. After all, he has started reflecting on them short after Japan Nationals, even if at last he resorted to Ballade and Seimei. But anyway, we will know nothing of them before his first competition, I think he has always done so?

Oh, but then, you meant a definitive move from Brian Orser to Plushenko? I just meant skating with him until she can return to Canada (and then, every success she might have, being attributed to Plushenko's brief coaching).

I don't think he would chase her. But if she wants to skate, and most rinks are closed, and she doesn't want to see Eteri Tutberidze (or reciprocal), I don't think she has much choice but to ask Plushenko, who would certainly "communicate" the piece of news in his way. Warning : too much popcorn and quarantine-related lack of exercise may result in weight gain.

Old, long Japanese report, Vietnamese subtitles.

His highest scored jumps, season after season. I would propose then, another video of his most underscored jumps. Then, pure provocation (that's why I send it, usually I wouldn't send his skating on other musics). His Otoñal 1 from Helsinki, on "Alena Kostornaya's" free program music (but uncut) from Twilight : To "compensate" (or to worsen my case), here is the said program (Alena Kostornaia's Twilight, here at GPF) skated on a Spirited Away soundtrack; in fact I don't find the result very good either : At least we can see how they skate to their music and interpret it and no other.

If they really want to "make the news" which I suppose I wouldn't want at all in her place, after all what happened recently. Sorry for one more ballet reference, but such a slippy way has been followed by a very promising young ballerina, and the result is scary (I'm reticent to name her).

If there was an interview, of course. Once again, I'm wondering at who advise her.

I am not at all accrediting any rumours (I have no idea) and I hope I am not entering a (politically) too sensitive topic, but he is from Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine, and I wonder if he may not qualify for Russian citizenship (I don't know at which conditions). And I think ISU requires one year without competing, in case of change of citizenship?