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Three swans in formation.

I know nothing of the matter, but my impression is, his hips are quite special, allowing his legs extraordinary movements. I don't think I have ever seen that, even in ballet.

I had hopes that Russian (and other) teams would make good use of the first two weeks on ice, by refining (or redefining) skating skills, but I rather get the impression of a (risky?) pointless race between teams, to see who will recover jumps the faster. As if a week earlier or later on this particular point meant something.

Un vieil article, mais j'ai bien aimé. C'était pour le premier anniversaire de la deuxième victoire olympique de Yuzuru Hanyu. https://www.olympic.org/fr/news/yuzuru-hanyu-veritable-miracle-sur-glace-se-couvre-de-gloire-a-pyeongchang Et un autre, plus récent, moins complet mais sur un site qui pourrait être une source d'information intéressante en français sur les sports de glace en général. Il y a une imprécision : le "Super Slam" (qui pourrait être traduit par "Grand Chelem"?) peut comprendre, soit une médaille d'or aux Championnat des Quatre Continents comme ici, soit une médaille d'or aux Championnats d'Europe, suivant la nationalité du patineur. https://www.iceradio.com/2020/02/10/patinage-artistique-super-slam-video-japonais-yuzuru-hanyu-legende/

He was only speaking about SARS CoV-related anxiety.

Thank you! Is not Anastasia Tarakanova now too old for Juniors? I cannot find Adelia Petrosyan's date of birth. Maybe too, she switched teams at the wrong date to take the earlier move? Daniil Samsonov was born on July 15th, in his case switching to Senior (if his birth date had been before July 1st) would not make much sense as, at the end of last season, he had not started his teenage growth spurt. I wonder how tall he is after the confinement?

Yet he's an athlete and more or less supposed to be in training outfit when he's neither competing nor in official acts? (Or in commercials, thank you Ghana for the jumper one, though I may be less enthusiastic about some other costumes.)

And he sounds so kind, caring and even tender to his public. I don't know if it is because he misses skating to a public, or because he feels for us who miss him so much? Maybe both.

But... Shizuka Arakawa and Nobunari Oda have been filmed in Avignon, France!

Thank you very much! Great that Skate Ontario have managed to establish detailed safety processes, and teaming with coaches too. For satellites who know about Skate Canada, does this competence displayed by Skate Ontario, mean the whole Skate Canada have reflected on their shortcomings in Worlds preparation, and are ready to handle championships next autumn if the epidemic allows it, be it without attendance or with a local attendance only? I didn't know Tracey Wainman, but I liked the set of Japanese swords on the shelf.

I would say : he's a man. Most men have a different notion of hygiene, at least intuitively. And for different reasons, they don't need it. The thing is, all other men (at least, all other men I have ever seen) have a rather rough skin etc. So, intuitively for me this time, their different relation to hygiene seems logical. But Yuzuru Hanyu has a skin any woman may envy him, an angel skin. Yet this skin seems to be as resistant to external aggression as that of a Canadian woodcutter. May it be the amount and quality of his sweat, perspiring by all his plentiful, (regularly shaped) and evenly placed pores? (So beautiful, by the way.) Edit : my husband suggests the quality of his hydrolipidic film, probably resulting from a perfect hormonal balance.

Thank you for warning! The COC bit is after 24 seconds so I could pause and "jump" the "sensitive content".

It is fair. He deserves it.

(Baby) Jun Hwan-Cha was already there.

Not today for me but I hope I can see both Short and Free tomorrow, as Grand Prix Finals are short.

But she was not in Junior. I confess his hands fascinate me. They have quite a special shape, too, if you look at the print they have at the monument to figure skating in Sendai. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298249-d15132536-Reviews-Figure_Skating_Monument-Sendai_Miyagi_Prefecture_Tohoku.html#photos;aggregationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=385898327 And, of course, the way they move, for instance in @sallycinnamon's signature .GIF. If you consider that, visiting an unknown household in temporary accommodation after the Great Earthquake, he could, without any introduction, start stroking a cat the wrong way between the eyes, and the cat's reaction was to ask for more and even lay on his back to get strokes on the belly... I love cats but I always do proper introduction, and I can imagine if I had tried something like that with an unknown cat, I would have been scratched as soon as on reach of the cat's paw. What hands! Alena Kostornaya wants to be a neurosurgeon, I tend to think he would be a great one if he wasn't giving the World the beauty of his skating. He says that he works on their movements in his programs, but he has abilities to start with.

My personal impression is that they had grown uneasy one with the other for months, but maybe in denial because she was winning and "one don't change a winning team". This reinforced by the fact she was starting a rather violent coming-of-age crisis (Brian Orser and Tracy Wilson had to endure quite a lot, I remember her at her first championship with TCC, Brian Orser was very patient). At the moment I thought she was doing the right move, though not very politely (but Brian Orser, him again, made her write a thanking letter which saved it) due to this crisis and to the accumulation of resentment. I still think it was, because I had never liked her skating before, and I started liking it last season. Of course I can't say why, being a dummy, is it that Ilya Averbukh's choreos didn't suit her or something else?

Thank you! And still about 4A and the short program rule, can it make the required "triple or quadruple" solo jump? (As it cannot be the Axel element.) It would make a "special Axel short program". Sorry if my question is stupid.

On Team Russia, @rubyblue posted an interview of Serafima Sakhanovich, and reflecting on their considering that someone learning a quad usually loses the corresponding triple, I am now afraid when Yuzuru Hanyu jumps his quad Axel in competitiion, he may somehow lose his wonderful triple axels?

I hope they won't get hold on him for I don't know what politicking.

I had just translated it because I liked it, someone was faster...

An indisputable proof of his innocence in Stéphane Lambiel's new haircut.

If you mean the Australian funnel-web spider, I worried for a relative who went to live in Australia with her family, but I read later that thanks to availability of serums since 1981 and a generally slow proceeding, there had been only one death (in 2016) since 1981 due to its venom.

There's the theory, then there's the experience (but giving birth in an unplanned place in the USA may be even more scary). Maybe because I'm coming from a region where fathers are considered giving birth along with mothers ("couvade")? (In Japan, the Ainus are reported to have it too.)

A little run after is not "not being so keen". He know better than anyone, that everybody need exercise, and urban pigeons may become too sedentary. ;-) This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet Brrr! And a honey-bee and mantis killer, by the way. Well, I suppose it is this subspecies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet?oldid=568892157