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I had no idea it was that rotten. So he's even more forced to do whatever he is told to. and how's the MCAT?

I understand pre-med is special. I mean, you can pass every year with easily earned good marks if that's the policy of your university, but at the end of fourth year, you have to be good enough to enter a medical school. Though I wasn't aware the grades in pre-med and recommendation were part of it, which can change things a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school_in_the_United_States

And this when you think Yuzuru Hanyu attends Waseda University, which could be called "the Japanese Yale" for the number of alumni who became prime ministers, which I never see credited anywhere. And we can expect, as in any American university, a very special treatment for any top athlete choosing them. I don't mean easier exams (at least, probably not in pre-med) but an adapted calendar. He chose (or was told) not to take up the gauntlet clearly (and kindly, and good-humouredly) thrown at him by Yuzuru Hanyu before the Nationals, for a duel at 4CC, he didn't compete much otherwise; Yuzuru Hanyu preferred to compete with indecent jet-lags, he gets the rewards of it and it is perfectly legitimate, while Nathan Chen got his with his GPF Gold after wild overscoring, and equally wild underscoring of his rival. That's life.

"Never change a losing team", uh?

Fine! Though "but then over time, the Japanese government forbade women to perform in this theater" is a bit of a leap, isn't it?

In my opinion, he must have broken a great many underscoring world records too.

Sold out alas, I hope there will be republications. Thinking they are both "the same program", yet SO different. And great. He may stay unsatisfied with them, because he didn't make them what he wanted to do with Origin, they are masterpieces, to watch and watch again.

Really sorry for what have just hit Canada.

What a man! What a boy, then. But, some "boys" are in fact heroes, teenage being the age of heroism. Of course he is. Thank you so much for these links. Of course, his autobiographies have not been translated yet, I mean as books?

He entered the Bolshoi school at 13 and his principal teacher, Piotr Pestov (who had already had Vladimir Malakhov as a pupil, and would have Friedemann Vogel later in Stuttgart) was as aware of his potential with such limbs, as of the problems they may induce, and as to how to maximise the former and advert the latter. And once in the Bolshoi Ballet, he was "finished" by Marina Semenova and Galina Ulanova, who overcame their legendary hostility for him (and the sake of ballet), among others. He was a very understanding and quick-learning pupil, and now a great (and demanding) teacher and rector of the Vaganova Academy.

I really meant GPF, only a month after the accident. If you think he was really healed by then, it will be a delight to watch this version. Thank you!

He can somehow be called a recycler but in fact, it is due to his long career, to his exceptional ability to keep all former programs "at hand", to his programs being so original and meaningful and different (vs some skaters doing the same year after year with an apparently different music and a pretence to different meanings), and to his unique ability to really recycle, transforming them, without really repeating.

I feel too sensitive to dare watch it. (not to speak of the accident itself!)

Not mentioning his injury though.

Yvonne Lefébure, in an interview, said she had an "arrangement" with her neighbours and couldn't practice more than two hours per day, "not to disturb them". I thought : I would pay to be her neighbour and hear her scales. Watching Yuzuru practice at TCC would be even more exhilarating. But how troubling. How to mind one's own business and try to progress when such a skater is practising on the same ring?

Oh, of course! I got so much used to see them as chibi... By the way, may I tell you I like very much your pseudonym? It makes me think of this ad, which in turn makes me think so much to Yuzuru Hanyu : ForEverSpin

???? Ice-chan, Floor-chan, Blade1-chan and Blade2-chan???

Speaking of Nikolay Tsiskaridze... Yesterday evening I have rewatched his Haru yo, Koi and thought about a comparison between the takes on a pink flower by the two dancing G.O.A.T., and wondered in which thread it would fit. Maybe this. Though the differences are great between these programs. Haru yo, Koi is a solo representing the spring (with all its Japanese and YH meanings) through a cherry tree flower turning in the spring wind, whereas The Spirit of the Rose is a duo, where the young maid personifies innocence (with a very-XIXth Century, reserved style of dancing) while the rose is twofold : both an innocent (but captivating) flower and a messenger/symbol of the lust of the poet, causing a turmoil in the young maid's dreams by his "Ballets russes" sensual style of dancing. The music being XIXth Century but a waltz, rather sensual. Warning : on the ballet video, the first ballet (11 first minutes) is The Spirit of the Rose, which I think is "general public", but it is followed by Afternoon of a Faun and Sheherazade, which I find much less so. Here is a translation of the Théophile Gautier poem on which the ballet is based, found on mcglamorous.com : Sweet lady, let your lids unclose.– Those lids by maiden dreams caressed; I am the phantom of the rose You wore last night upon your breast. Like pearls upon my petals lay The weeping fountain’s silver tears, Ere in the glittering array You bore me proudly ‘mid your peers. O lady, ’twas for you I died– Yet have I come and will I stay; My rosy phantom by your side Will linger till the break of day. Yet fear not, lady; naught claim I– Nor mass, nor hymn, or funeral prayer; My soul is but a perfumed sigh, Which pure from Paradise I bear. My death is as my life was–sweet; Who would not die as I have done? A fate like mine who would not meet, Your bosom fair to lie upon? A poet on my sentient tomb Engraved this legend with a kiss: ‘Here lies a rose of fairest bloom; E’en kings are jealous of its bliss. Here's the original poem in French : Soulève ta paupière close Qu’effleure un songe virginal ; Je suis le spectre d’une rose Que tu portais hier au bal. Tu me pris encore emperlée Des pleurs d’argent de l’arrosoir, Et parmi la fête étoilée Tu me promenas tout le soir. Ô toi qui de ma mort fus cause, Sans que tu puisses le chasser Toute la nuit mon spectre rose À ton chevet viendra danser. Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclame Ni messe ni De Profundis ; Ce léger parfum est mon âme Et j’arrive du paradis. Mon destin fut digne d’envie : Pour avoir un trépas si beau, Plus d’un aurait donné sa vie, Car j’ai ta gorge pour tombeau, Et sur l’albâtre où je repose Un poète avec un baiser Écrivit : Ci-gît une rose Que tous les rois vont jalouser. What are your thoughts about these two takes on a pink flower, one century distant, one Easter, the other Western, etc? Edit : I corrected those faults so late...

Well, a pas-de-deux is a pas-de-deux, meant to be a duo. And I am sure he would be as attentive a partner as Nikolay Tsiskaridze (here, also his partner's coach).

We all know he is not a "mere samurai", rather a "superlative samurai", "out of a legend". (Or knight.) I think I remember he said he would have liked to skate as a samurai, but the attire wouldn't suit his (implicitly not that tall, and slender) body? I didn't really agree, in fact. Some people are TOO humble.

Thank you very much! He says he saw Yuzuru Hanyu doing 4A, was he at GPF?

By the way, I had to copy but had forgotten, the link to their site is this one : https://www.americares.org/events/blades-for-the-brave/ Well, now, sorry but...

Thank you! I had clicked of course, but not found out what it consisted in.

To be true, even in Europe some people are nearly panicking, demanding daily detailed reporting instead of weekly ones, hence a bigger workload... What is Blade for the Brave? I mean, they couldn't find an open rink and gather to skate, could they?

In fact, after having watched again the interview, this time with English subtitles, I understood it as implying he had already stopped on-ice training, maybe yesterday after the announcement of the national state of emergency. I understand the main problem in Japan, now that informal gatherings have ceased, is still employers forcing non-essential workers who could work online, to attend offices? Plus the use of physical seals. Maybe this crisis will prompt the development/implementation of some sort of electronic seal?