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So, I ordered it immediately, and I received it (in Germany) last Tuesday, which I find really fast (I chose DHL, and I understand it may be slower now, with reduction in the number of flights). In fact, I received it the very morning when they sent me a mail informing me they had dispatched the packet!

If Japanese Wikipedia page about Shun Sato was well translated by deepl.com, Shun was not only born in Sendai, but raised, and skated there until Junior High School, when his parents relocated to Saitama. So Yuzuru Hanyu must have quite followed his progress.

For me it is Shoma Uno. I wouldn't have thought he was only 1m58, I thought he was a bit over 1m60.

I learnt the Sendai nuclear reactor n°1 had been halted on March 15th due to failing to comply with new regulations implemented after the Fukushima accident, and should restart in December, while the reactor n°2 would stop from May to next January. I hope there will be no electricity cut in Sendai. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/national/kyushu-electric-halts-sendai-reactor/#.XpMvPPlfjcs

Nathan Chen too : I thought he was 1m64, and Wikipedia say 1m66, not 1m68.

About hungarish-style "character" movements, I would add something, though late. It is a key element, not to say the main one, in character dance taught at great ballet school. It can be met in Swan Lake and others, but is particularly essential to Raymonda. It is so hard to catch that I have seen principal dancers at top ballet, not managing it (I won't tell who and where). It can be done with some insistence, or more understated like Sylvie Guillem or... Yuzuru Hanyu. How could he get it with so little practice? He is a genius of movement. Nikolay Tsiskaridze, in between : An exam at Vaganova Academy, whose rector is Nikolay Tsiskaridze (very keen on character dance), here from 4:15 to 5:30 :

Well, for the sake of peace in the world, he ought not to swim publicly.

I sincerely pity all who must make a choice now.

Great! So it was probably Sendai City mon.

Thank you again for this explanation. I just noticed that on this photo he wears a wholly different mon! https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298249-d8800098-Reviews-Icerink_Sendai-Sendai_Miyagi_Prefecture_Tohoku.html#photos;aggregationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=356807366 I can hardly imagine it could be a rented haori. Could it be his mother's mon? Or his club's?

Even in quad axel, he keeps his arms position. And what elegance!

I am sure he was advised not to swim in a chlorine-rich water, very bad for his asthma. I am not sure he's had a great many occasions to really try swimming in better water. He is said to be too dense to float? But even if it is true, what about sea water? Floating in is easy, though one must get the habit with the eyes before enjoying it.

So, Evgenia Medvedeva could have come back to Russia, in spite of the border closure? I thought she couldn't. I really hope we will have more complete explanations later about her travel.

A real change from the two last seasons.

I got very picky and voted for 2015 GPF under the pretext he was a bit more tense at Pyeong-Chang. But the other choice, really... So cruel... (I don't take the costume into account; because otherwise, I am not a fan of the side "golden triangles".)

Yeay!!! Do you know how one can listen to it from Europe, preferably as a podcast?

If they chose it for a program, it may arouse again the question of narrative tone in songs for the music.

Your post made me wonder. A non-EU traveller who wants to stay in France, must prove he/she is covered by a health insurance for the duration of the travel. Is it the same for Japan? Do you think any insurance would cover her as a Russian national or as a Canadian resident, for medical expenses during this travel? Unless she had contracted it much ahead, before the world took notice of the epidemics?

One can find one wonderful, "otherworldly" artist with best physical capabilities in several decades. But it takes this PLUS a clever nerd in one person to go further and be the GOAT. So even 200 years seem optimist. Though if such a wonderful, otherworldly artist with best physical capabilities (without being such a genius) gets coached by Yuzuru Hanyu and gets along well with him (will he be such patient, understanding a coach as Brian Orser and Tracy Wilson?) we may have greater skating than what he already gives us, because he will have matured and even better assembled, even more knowledge of all topics joining in skating, than what he has now, and may nurture his pupil into a true wonder. Much beyond my imagination — Yuzuru Hanyu is already so far beyond my imagination.

Thank you so much for the info! He doesn't make announcements regarding his logistics or even his health between championships. It is his private life, and I find rather intrusive my wish to know if he had managed to go and reunite with his family before airlines stopped flying to Japan. But I feel quite relieved to know he has. I do believe he is safer in Japan, PLUS he has his family, whether he can skate or not (and I believe he can, at least for now). Although he has asthma, I don't think he would be in danger of death, should he catch the virus, as long as Sendai (and Japan) have enough respirators (and I suppose they may already be buying or making some, like many countries) but he may lose some lung capacity and have to stop competing, and I think it would be so sad. I really hope he won't have it, and am rather optimistic about it.

Well, I hope at least her shark is not a bear-eater one.

Stunning!

I am afraid I didn't understand correctly : the review is supposed to last more than 12 hours?!

Great! It seems to work! Thank you so much! Edit : It did work, I could place an order with my Visa card. Thank you very much!

But the paper editions are still for Japan only, aren't they? I thought it would make a perfect present for a relative who's studying costume making, but we are in Europe.