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The Soap Opera seems to have taken a new turn. We are awaiting reactions from Ice-chan, Floor-chan and, of course, Yuzuru-kun.

https://jackfigure.com/yuzu-shoma-rika-lead-jsfs-strengthened-athletes-list-for-2020-21-season/ Here is a list of Japanese skaters who will be helped by government. Mone Chiba is in the B category. Does this mean that she is going Senior next year (as she doesn't have a Wikipedia or an ISU page, I don't know if she was born before or after July 1st, 2005)? Or does this list also include skaters who will remain in Junior category in 2020-2021? By the way, I saw she was not training with Nanami Abe but I don't know if this means she left Sendai. She competed in the Eastern sectionals though.

Maybe the two layers of the top were sewn together? Quite a different sort of fanart : Let’s go hippo !

And, as we are not always serious, are we? The second part of the (in-)famous "taking his shirt off compilation". I don't need to warn the most angelic satellites?

FAoI 2015 Viêt subtitles

I don't know if this belongs to this thread, but the album was discussed here, I think? This is a presentation of the new photo album by Toru Yaguchi, and it shows a few photos from the album. I really don't think there is any copyright infringement because it looks like an advertising, but in case there would be, of course please delete.

I hope they will find somewhere to go. But anyway I suppose they coudn't skate for their country, unless UFSF change their mind? I tended to think France may have had the worst federation, but...

She seems to have much progressed these last months?

I don't understand why pairs and ice dancers should stay 2m apart. It is like close family, it is well traceable in case one should catch it... It is not the same as coach/student, as a coach has many students, or a hockey team.

I had only one occasion for studying on a plane, I had only that time to do it and my seat neighbours happened to be my beloved friends and neighbours who were just coming back from their first holidays abroad and very eager to share their experience. When the teacher gave me back the test sheet a few days later, he expressed surprise. Not very pleased. And I was quite ashamed. But half laughing. All in all, I suppose Yuzuru Hanyu doesn't sit hundreds hours in a plane yearly. Rather a good many dozens. It wouldn't be enough to study. Plus, as he has to manage jet-lag, he has to sleep part of the flight. If his neighbours are willing of course.

I'd rather say : why not? It is perfectly adapted, functionally, cheap and easy to find. Sparkles and glamour are fit for ice rink or official stuff, while comfortable, not necessarily made-to-be-seen are fit for home. He's a man, you know.

If (unlike Robbe-Grillet) you are also beautiful and super-clever, you may be a mutant yourself? About train timetable though, it was the SNCF ones, as shown on the picture. They had a "high reputation". An example of these times : https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/46982935725_71b6d02062_b.jpg (a simplified version, I couldn't find "the real thing") As to cram schools in Japan, it is the juku system, most pupils start it at primary school, and virtually all of them do it all along junior high and high schools, and sometimes one more year if they failed the entrance exams and sit in again. It is considered so indispensable, that lately the government decided to fund juku for the poorer children, because they had no hope of any regular jobs if they didn't attend one, let alone entering a national (= elite) or public (they look like colleges) university. Of course he couldn't attend any, and had much less time to study than his fellows, and was probably exhausted. Yet got the best marks and even passed the entrance exam of one of the two most selective private universities. That's why I feign to pretend he's a mutant. There was also that theory of clones. Maybe there was one Yuzu on ice and one Ru working only for school. But it couldn't have worked. He was both too active and too much in need of learning.

A series of nice moments, some of them I had never seen (such as with the watermelon; not that it is anyway surprising, he has perfect mental spacial representation). Then, this was after the gala at NHK 2019, and I had never seen it, except a few pictures with one of them. He is playing with three mascots, but basically it is the three mascots (kindly) trying to seduce him, and it reminded me some discussions here; I am sure there will be a great number of candidates next year. ;-)

Might he be a mutant? Gotlib proposed half a century ago, two elements and three tests to detect a mutant. Well, first, he's beautiful and superhumanly clever. This is OK. 1) A mutant can understand a movie of Alain Robbe-Grillet. (No risk Yuzuru Hanyu have ever seen one, fortunately.) 2) He can decipher easily a railway timetable. But there are no more of those timetables. 3) Or fold a road map at the first try. Same. (But I am old enough to know I am not a mutant.) How could we ascertain? (Image found on bedetheque.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnGEJS8cBdo Alina Zagitova celebrated yesterday her Sambo-70 diploma, from Novogorsk but with the "regular" bell. I understand this is a vocational secondary diploma, allowing her to enter a physical education college to become a coach, but I read elsewhere she was preparing the Unified State Exam (for university entrance)? Or was it a wrong translation? On this video, I think the sound can be switched-off as well. I didn't see Elizabeta Tursynbayeva anywhere in the team, did she have problems to enter Russia?

This I wouldn't have imagined. So, he took the entrance exam just after his Silver at 4CC 2013? Thank you very much for your answer.

I have a question, maybe Japanese satellites would know? I have read many times, that it was nearly impossible for a Japanese pupil in Junior and Senior high school, to have good marks or pass university entry tests, without attending a cram school; yet Yuzuru Hanyu always had good marks in his public school, without attending cramming school, without even having time to study as much as others after class hours, as he had so many skating hours. Is it not a big achievement in itself, or even, something extraordinary?

I could read only half of it. So the "squad escalation" resulting in less artistic programs is Yuzuru Hanyu's fault, because he's practising 4A? It is not the fault of coaches and other influencers who advise "flagly advantaged" skaters to jump more whatever the left, because they will get candies PCs anyway? And that so-called artistic program! How dare they, when a "flagly advantaged" skater can come and do only elements in an empty program to a point where I feel even a novice would be called, and get the best scores, how dare they pretend such a move could do anything for artistry in figure skating? It will do exactly the opposite, favour the "skaters with the right flags", maybe even if they lack both elements and artistry. Couldn't they keep the present rules, which are not bad, and stick to them? It would solve the problem in one season.

Given their capacity to weigh on national federations for the nomination of competent, more or less impartial judges for figure skating, I think they may well speak a good deal, but I don't think anything will change, as to this date, ISU itself doesn't seem particularly racist, homophobic... as we could have examples recently among clubs, judges, probably federations... on which, from what @rockstaryuzu once said, ISU have very little power. @rubyblue

I found the energy chart, 12% sugar, it must just be awful... to my palate at least. Be it honey or anything else. I read his sister had to leave her part-time job at Ice Rink Sendai because she was bothered by people. But I don't think a visit to the rink, to see where he learned skating, where he was when the earthquake hit Sendai... should be wrong. A rink is a public place. The same with passing in front of his former junior high school, wandering in the park he used to walk in... It could become a problem, should crowds do the same, but as long as it is just the occasional fanyu... And like @rockstaryuzu I am really glad his neighbours, and the shops and restaurants he visits, respect his privacy. So that he can still feel at home in his town.

Did he ever speak of mustard? But you spoke of honey?

I love mustard and pickles but only unsweetened. I really hate sweetened pickles, while I love French cornichons (gherkins), Italian capers, garlic, Derby eggs, and the likes, just vegetables, vinegar, salt and herbs. And Dijon mustard. Though during a visit in Norwich (England) a few years ago, I had at the market a slow-cooked brisket sandwich with, of course, Norwich (not too) sweet mustard, and I still have sweet memories of this sandwich. But it was not exactly a burger, the "bun" was more traditional and the meat too (one of those delicacies English cuisine "haters" don't even know). More like pan-bagnat.

I don't see any relation between the title and the statement?

He doesn't like pepper. I think he said once he could have green pepper, but definitely not ripe ones. Once he took a hamburger, mistaking pepper with tomato, and he felt betrayed. And he had an allergic reaction with an alcohol disinfectant for a test before a surgery, but I don't know if this reaction was to alcohol itself, or to another component of the disinfectant. In fact, though he doesn't go out much (or at all), I do suspect him to have occasionally accepted a little drop of wine or beer (but not to have ever been anywhere near ebriety). @sweetwater Thank you for the recipe!