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Indeed, cure in French and Kur in German mean special water treatment for some illnesses/injuries, but 3 weeks in France and 4 weeks in Germany and it is "serious medicine". But in a more jesting way we also call cure, eating something in large amounts/on a lengthy period (I don't know if German have the same name twist), and one could perfectly have a "cure de macarons", that is, eating several macarons everyday for some time.

Yes, lapin noir = black rabbit. And (real) macarons, made of egg white, sugar and almond powder, are I believe a healthy way of using the egg white leftover after a breakfast of rice with raw egg yolk, aren't they?

Hasn't he himself abbreviated/nicknamed it Yon-Axel in an interview? After JNats maybe? So many parents give their baby a nickname.

Ten to Chi to is certainly a legacy program, and this may be why to some of us it evokes re.......t, but I don't think it must mean that. He has always been in search of an absolute, hasn't he? But will it stop him searching, or be a step? And if it does stop him searching, will it stop him skating? As to his pendulum movements, I think there are physiotherapists here, are they not likely to be self-healing movements after pain-inducing exertions (cramps...)? They may then have become an habit. @rockstaryuzu I did a bank transfer but the first try didn't work, the second try did, it was maybe because I did it from another bank, but it may also be because I wrote the name of the Foundation in Swedish. Also, shouldn't we start speaking of the Yon-Axel instead of the Quad-Axel?

Has it been posted already? The short program requirements for Junior Singles and Junior and Senior Pairs for 2021/2022 have been issued : https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications/25568-2382-single-and-pair-skating-sp-required-elements-2021-22/file

In 2018 and 2019 it was a Challenger Series (cancelled in 2020 of course). So the same World Standing points for the winner as ACI. And, yes, if ever there are tickets, even if available only for the residents of the town where it is held (which I would understand), it is likely to be a bloodbath to get one. EDIT : As to his choice of an early season event, I agree it is likely to depend more on his geography at the moment, and his wishes for the season/World ranking : doing GP or not, for instance. I tend to think he's not decided yet, and there is the training/physiotherapy question he spoke about, there is the Canada/Japan border question too as already stated, and there's the objective/perceived contamination risk at each of these events, and at this moment I tend to find it quite unpredictable.

I think you have a point. Plus, China and Russia are great figure skating loving countries, and it would be very good for young Yuma Kagiyama to introduce himself in these countries, and start to be appreciated by their public.

If the ranks of a federation's three skaters add up to less than 13, or even less than 10, does this mean they will have four spots? (Just a joke...)

As a whole I agree, but I remember having read (last season?) that he wished to participate in Beijing Olympics if he had a chance to win Gold. Of course he may have changed his mind since, everybody have a right to change opinion/projects and this season has been very special, but as a matter of fact he did imply that Olympic Gold was a goal.

Thank you so much! A micro-silver lining in his not having had Gold this time, is that at his next Worlds he is likely to advance by a full place (from 5th to 4th) instead of not really advancing had he had Gold (from 4th ex-æquo to 4th alone). Also, I have shown my husband the two side-by-side photos of the opening pose @Whoopiewoop posted on the Men's Free Skate thread, and even allowing for the difference in lighting, he was clearly ill/unwell yesterday. And for him to look like that, it must have been something serious, asthma or not. I really hope he's healing fast and well. EDIT : sorry @Melodie and @Whoopiewoop for inverting your parts.

I haven't seen the warm up but I read somewhere that even then, he wasn't very well? I even wonder if he was that well for the short program, though he did deliver. Because he didn't upgrade, even to a 4Lo while his are superb. So maybe he already knew he had to spare his health because some parameters were not very good? (I wasn't there either, I was just coming back from the supermarket (and not feeling very well as usual, so I too wondered, but no, I don't think it did anything)).

I haven't checked because I want to know present scoring rules before dwelling on past ones, but I read Adelina Sotnikova really had a higher base value and her overscoring was far from being as blatant as Nathan Chen's, making ISU able to "justify" her Gold. Given their present double standard for every element and component scores between Nathan Chen and particularly Yuzuru Hanyu, they could not. I mean, not respecting a cap, or justifying any component higher or equal for the former than for the latter, etc. If Nathan Chen gets a positive GOE for a jump landed with two hands, and Yuzuru Hanyu a negative GOE because a perfect jump was landed a little less perfectly, it's much more blatant than just reducing the PCS difference or overvaluing a "I Biellmann".

If you don't wanna imagine, I'll put one method under spoiler.

Which Yuzuru Hanyu, with his character, is likely to take as : "You don't want to see me anymore? Yet you will have to, and I won't let you have your way." At a point, Olympic Games are not a mere ISU event either. A too strong evidence of judging scandal would lead IOC (and they are no saints) to take measures against ISU, and they have the power to do so because if figure skating was no more an Olympic sport, or if IOC would choose another organising body, it would be the death of ISU. So ISU may not feel at leisure of cheating at Olympics as much as at their own events. EDIT : ISU really don't know what they're doing when they try to push Yuzuru Hanyu to r...re. As a skater, he can't speak out. When he gets positions at JSF, I'm sure ISU will have to behave a little better, or...

Sorry, I can't find any more information, but it seems that China would be withdrawing from World Team Trophy (and be replaced by France)? L'Équipe is French main sports newspaper, they are not used to spread unfounded rumours, and they are quite affirmative. https://www.lequipe.fr/Patinage-artistique/Actualites/Rupture-d-un-tendon-d-achille-pour-mae-berenice-meite/1235800

I was searching news of Maé-Bérénice Séité's, and though I didn't get news about her, this article mentioned that China had withdrawn from WTT, it seems to be accepted by ISU and France will replace them : https://www.lequipe.fr/Patinage-artistique/Actualites/Rupture-d-un-tendon-d-achille-pour-mae-berenice-meite/1235800 Is this an open door for those who don't want to go, not to be forced to?

It just means there should be sub-articles to develop the little overview the main article would give on each subject.

I'm so happy for him! But what medals do they still have in store for when he's triple OGM?

It's a jest and of course unlikely, but actually it would not have been technically impossible. Because Japan is among the (few) non-European countries with no specific restriction to Sweden, and he had a motive to go there, and the 5-7 days quarantine doesn't necessarily consist in staying in an enclosed place, it's rather self isolation. And there was still a good deal of skateable ice in lakes around Stockholm, and there are guides who know to assess this skateability, for instance these ones : https://iceguide.se/ice-skating-tours/private-ice-skating-day-tour/ (The end of their season was last Sunday). So, if he could go to Sweden with someone who can drive (and cook) because of course he couldn't have been in the guides' car during his quarantine, he could have skated on natural ice during a few days (honeymoon with Ice chan) then rented private ice, there are so many rinks in Stockholm and around. Sorry for going so wild with my imagination, and writing it to top the folly. But I don't like when he has jet-lags, I worry for his health, etc.

It doesn't seem likely to make much material damage or injuries, but it must be scary for those who remember 11.3 and were already shaken a month ago; and for those who are not there (like Yuzuru Hanyu, who certainly had departed even if he is to arrive in Stockholm on Sunday) and who worry about their dear ones. https://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent

Sorry if my question is stupid. I have seen that Elizaveta Tuktamysheva used to do running to train or to warm up. Doesn't running inflict micro-fractures on feet? Doesn't skating itself tend to do the same? Maybe the best running shoes can avoid it?

@Henni147 For the 4A I'm not sure, but otherwise I do think too he won't do any toe-assisted jump in his free skate. This being said, I would not be surprised should he upgrade his 4S in his short program. His 4S are perfect but his 4Lo too, and it's 0.8 more base value. Also, about quad-double combinations, I don't find them so unattractive with Ladies (I think of Rika Kihira, who by the way may upgrade to 4S-3T). And have there been examples of quads followed by double loops? The inherent feeling of ascension in the latter jump may allow harmony in such a combo? @rockstaryuzu The Nathan Chen saturation on ISU twitter may also be an Ari Zacharian folly. May he have bet on a victory from this skater? Maybe I'm going too far.

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