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I see we're back to normal..

Team France for WTT Men: Kevin Aymoz / Adam Siao Him Fa Ladies: Maé-Bérénice Méité / Laurine Lecavelier Pairs: James / Cipres Ice Dance: Papadakis / Cizeron

New JP twitter hashtag:

Some lucky fans have received their signed Yuzu polaroids from P&G

Hmm... Yuzu and Alina did SBS 3F All the times Ondrej gave him a lift Yuzu and Javi stroking exercise at TCC Patrick and Yuzu doing SBS Toeloops ETA: Yuzu and Javi SBS 4Ts

No worries. I can see both sides of the arguments and really have no issues with both. In the end it's just a lot of uncertainties and what ifs. What's done is done. We only have the future to look forward to. Frankly, I'm hoping for Yuzu to break the system again as he did in NHK/GPF'15.

Like I said, there is a perception that the gap is now minimal because of the score in this particular competition. Going forward, we still don't know how the scoring here will affect future competitions but the judging here has skewed that perception towards that. Just my two cents on why some people have that pessimistic view that Yuzu wouldn't have won even if he was clean.

Javi..... please... shave....

There is the perception of that now mainly because of 2 things. The scores indicate that Nathan has basically closed the PCS and GOE gap that Yuzu had over him. If Yuzu had been clean would Nathan still get those inflated PCS/GOE? We don't know. Saying Yuzu's jump wasn't his best is also erroneous. Yes, most of the jumps wasn't a Yuzu-standard jump BUT he still ticked enough GOE bullets for most of his jumps to warrant better GOEs than Nathan. We're not supposed to judge him against a Yuzu-standard. We're supposed to judge him using the rulebook. Nathan got higher GOEs for his spins, steps, and choreo sequence as well. His TR marks were in the 9s even though Raf himself admitted that the program had no transitions.

Belated Happy Birthday Nobu!

New magazine cover

Lambiel/Radford 2LoTh!

Here: Translations of non-english commentaries (some of the videos are gone though )

Didn't watch it but what I gathered from twitter reactions is the same old things they've been complaining about him since the beginning of his career (but magnified) - sloppy lines, bad posture, looks down a lot. They even criticised his costumes. His music for his FS in particular are all 'elevator music'.... etc...