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A 28-year-old Spanish doctor died of it some weeks ago, of course it was when Spain was overwhelmed yet...

Was it not one of the locations where Prism on Ice was supposed to have a show? I still have that hope...

I got Hope and Legacy, I love it but it is not my preferred program (because it is not my preferred music).

Yes the character is very beautiful BUT not as much as the real Yuzuru Hanyu. It would take a G.O.A.T. in animation I suppose. ;-) Yuzuru Hanyu looks really like a beautiful anime character in some of his expressions, but when he moves his features he is more beautiful. That's the "magic". (And then sometimes he has "murder faces" too.) Thank you for the anime by the way, I wonder if it is commercially available in Europe.

That's not counting the haters. Always noisy, and most often given the greatest press coverage. We can imagine, for instance, the deprecation a certain admirer of another skater, herself with a great athletic CV, could throw on him. And let's not forget that for anybody who don't know figure skating (that is, the large majority of voters, even in Japan), he is "too good (and beautiful) to be true". Think only of the difference with... Well, we are not supposed to speak politics here; but as a whole, it is all about image, which is not that good in spite of all the hard work of media and PR teams, and there is nothing good behind. Yuzuru Hanyu would have a fantastic image, the difficulty would be to have people understand he is as good inside as outside, clever, competent, honest and devoted.

A French politician, who by the way had lectured some time in Québec, wrote about "hand touch" ("toque manettes" in his regional language), all the information one can gather from a handshake. Given Yuzuru Hanyu's sensitivity and ability, with cats for instance (can you imagine, visiting victims of the earthquake in a temporary housing, people and cats he didn't know, he put directly his hand between one of the cat's eyes and stroked it the wrong way, and the cat, instead of scratching him as such an audacity normally "deserves", turned his belly up to get strokes there!), or in his "iceology mental library" (I'm sure we don't know a tenth of this man's talents, maybe much less), he would very quickly know everything of the people he meets, much better than any research institute could tell him. Plus, he really likes to know people. So I tend to think he would campaign (though I don't know what a Japanese politician campaign looks like; maybe not many handshakes). https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Labarrère (sorry it's in French, he has no English Wikipedia) (and for keen French readers, a "Japanese anecdote" about him and the future boss of Toshiba, in a project rather special for me) https://billaut.typepad.com/jm/2010/08/andré-labarrère-monsieur-nishida-caressezlui-donc-la-fesse-.html

His ease and simplicity in such embarrassing moments always struck me. And after Sochi, he was still a boy. This man is a real wonder. As to Beijing being like "home crowd", I don't find it unnatural, it is not like if he had any competitor of a similar level.

I think the title can mislead a bit. There is no reproach in this sentence, just the fact that her situation is different.

Betrayed by a plushie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnSW7YNc70 This seems to date back to end of 2014. Once Yuzuru Hanyu said he loved tomatoes but was betrayed once, a burger seeming to contain tomato, and containing red pepper instead. In this video he is really harassed by a plush mascot, I really felt uneasy. What forbearance and strength! He clearly forgave plushies for this treason. And they were already "marrying" him. Not even with Pooh-san! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqP_v6wFwoI This one seems rather recent : a few days before the lockdown? He had already said he liked this sort of rice with raw egg. And he specifies these eggs are local. I suppose Sendai people know the restaurant he is in and may attend in numbers, but at the moment it is probably closed...

In Russia too, even parks are closed! :-o

True! There's an announcement that was not last time I went on the site, and though in PDF, it is copiable and says everything is closed from April 19th to May 6th. Lessons are due to restart on May 12th but I understand chartering will be available from May 6th on, if there is no extension of the closure of course. https://icerink-sendai.net/ https://icerink-sendai.net/uploads/article/20200417021748_1089487247.pdf It had probably to do with his dejected looks during the interview. Two weeks of self-quarantine, little more than two weeks on-ice in Sendai, then no ice again. It must be hard.

Is he studying the same subject as Yuzuru Hanyu?

By the way, I read Keegan Messing and Vincent Zhou were supposed to be the only ones able to practice a little bit on ice, so I suppose, either Sendai rink is closed, or Yuzuru Hanyu doesn't skate there anymore? I hope it won't last, because while public openings, though a valuable source of income, are rather risky covid-wise, I tend to think training for serious skaters can be safe for skaters as well as for coaches and staff, with well-thought rules.

Such as a koala release in the wild after rescue and healing, as was announced today in the news? https://mashable.com/article/koalas-released-wild-australia-bushfires/?europe=true

I was thinking more particularly to my dear Alina Zagitova, who has this ability (I know she is not popular here, and her glide itself is not as good), would she have got Me Voy, a great step in her artistic development but not showing it off? Unless it was measured either on the short program, or on the free. As to speed variations, I think it impacts (should impact) not only skating skills score (directly), but also performance (at least in "dynamic" programs), transitions (for the parts concerned), maybe interpretation as judges can't see it by themselves?, and why not composition. I wonder if a measurement of all angular movements of the blades, either towards revolution, or edge inclination, or even forward and backward, could be measured too. In fact, I say "could" but I don't think it would be implemented, because we all know any "hard data" measurement would show Yuzuru Hanyu's superiority. I may be paranoiac but I wonder if the change proposed post-Beijing isn't aimed at "forcing" him to retire by telling him "anyway you will be even more underscored that you've ever been". They don't know him, it seems. Elizabeth Bennet ("My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.") is not the character I see like his in Pride and Prejudice, but I don't see him changing his targets with such attempts, either. I tend to think, his decision will not depend on ISU's bad will towards him. Though this bad will may be the only dependable thing with ISU? ;-) But I am going off-topic.

Sometimes we get a skater's average speed during a program, but I think this is not a very relevant information, given we know the duration of said program and can get ice coverage. There is a huge difference between a program where a skater goes from an element to the next at a nearly constant speed, and a program with steep accelerations and decelerations, to speak only of measurable data. I think it would be easy to get, for instance, a skater's maximum speed (short track skaters, make way, Yuzuru Hanyu's arriving! ) and his maximum acceleration and deceleration, which would give a slight numerical idea. We could go further by mapping the time past by the skater at different speeds in a given program; it would have its accuracy but I would fear it may have a bad influence on choreography freedom, or even end in a clowning feast if choreographers feel forced to vary speed all the time even if it doesn't suit the program — and the skater. We could also seek a third, or even a fourth derivative of position (derivative, or second derivative of acceleration) to measure the smoothness of acceleration and deceleration. As, between the extremes of a very few skaters who accumulate a series of exercises at a nearly constant speed, and one skater (guess who! ;-) ) who "has it all", absolute speed, extremely quick yet smooth acceleration and deceleration, there are skaters who excel in quick acceleration and deceleration but not that smooth, or who have smooth, and slower at the time, acceleration and deceleration; and who all deserve notice, of course. Just one of the elements allowing "hard data" for ISU to be able to maintain FS as an Olympic sports. And to lower judging bias, contrary to their project of a new system of notation.

I wonder why they can have 5 Ladies but only 3 Men, while Shun Sato has proven to be next to top and, though young, this is a pre-Olympic season?

Well, that's the narrative, but experience with +5/-5 GOE (which had a similar narrative but led judges to worsen over- and underscoring problems) tend to have opposite thought about the real objective? Or may they be that naive about who would get more PCS (hint : those who don't have really good components but powerful support) and who will get less PCS (those lacking said support, not real components)?

Well, there is the notion of citizenship, but also that of tax residence. I have lived in different countries and of course, agreements differ between countries but basically, you can't choose where to pay and you're chiefly taxed in your country of residence, not in the country you're a citizen of. Except when you are an US or Belarus citizen. Edit : Sorry I hadn't read your last line. At first I just added a possible motive of choice for a private university, the origin of the discussion being Philip Hersh's comment. I didn't (couldn't) imagine it could be amplified/focused to such point, and am sorry I gave such an occasion, weird topic indeed. Plus I just don't wish to know where he pays taxes! I have no doubt he pays them where he has to, and that's all.

Just because, as he is much more than 183 days per year in Canada and much less in Japan, he is likely to be a Canadian resident for tax considerations. I found the treaty between both countries to avoid double taxation, but as said Geo1, he has income from Japanese companies for commercials, and we don't know under which form, if he has a company to manage it all, etc, and he may very well pay taxes in Japan as well, at least at a Company level (at a personal level I suppose Article 10 prevents it). https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/tax-policy/tax-treaties/country/japan-convention-consolidated-1986-1999.html Of course all this is his business, not ours, and we can be sure he does nothing like tax avoidance. Edit : with Art.14 he may be taxable in Japan on his Japanese commercial income.

I must confess, as a young man who would inspire Greek and Renaissance sculptors (and being older than Ganymede, would be safe from Zeus, but not knowing the age of the former's potential brother Tithonus at his abduction, maybe not from Eos), I rather see Jun-hwan Cha. Yuzuru Hanyu was proposed as an Elf in Tolkien's world, I rather agree there.

As we all know from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's trilogies that count five parts. Logically, a top 5 should count 7 or 8, as you propose. ;-)

Thank you! So this "T. Wilson" listed as their coach was not another person, but Wikipedia TW page need some correction? And please excuse my ignorance.

Do you think he wishes to coach them? He hasn't coached ice-dancers yet, and current ice-dancers rather train in Montréal, but Tracy Wilson was an ice-dancer. And their names may not be totally unknown of Japanese skaters and JSF.

That's one thing I admire particularly with Yuzuru Hanyu. Being so wise, conscious of the shortcomings in the skating world (he was already clear about it in 2015 with Mansai Nomura, I don't know if he was already underscored), and still fighting by the only way of excellence, though at GPF we could have a glance at the "inner boiling" such injustice provoked... Of course this integrity reflects in his choice of subject. I wondered too, if choosing a private university, which could of course come from there being only this proposing a subject he wanted to study, or affording him the flexibility he needed, may not have come from the reasoning that he was not a Japanese taxpayer at the moment, and wouldn't want to weigh on Japanese public financing (as for national and public universities).