Ulrinis

How can a judge who is KNOWN to have made a serious mistake by not correctly recognizing one of Yuzu's elements be chosen for Beijing? Is there any chance this judge may have learned anything or may have received proper training and instructions meanwhile?

The thought of somebody else being successful first, as unlikely as it might seem, really bothers me. I would find it unfair although you can't forbid others to try. However, they should not forget it was Yuzu who opened up the doors for applying the correct technique by speaking so openly about the advice he got from athletes of other sports disciplines. Therefore, although I was afraid first, I am now happy that Yuzu challenged the 4A at JNats. Nobody can take that away from him. Again it turned out to be a clever move to try it when it was not quite ready. So now ... please, skating god! Let Yuzu earn the fruits of his hard work!

In my opinion this is extremely important! If I understand this correctly, there are people inside ISU who are aware of how superior Yuzu is. I wouldn't be surprised if this was really true: Yuzu presents the judges the finest details of his skills and silently shakes his head when, again, they just haven't spotted them. Because this seems to be all he can do if they are not inclined to give him the scores he deserves and nobody launches an official protest. And if so, having observed the judges not seeing every detail, he has used this observation in his thesis as an argument for AI, explaining that it's just human that the judges don't see every detail. How smart and kind of him! OK, so there is an ISU representative who openly admits how brilliant Yuzu is! Shouldn't this be a wake-up call for the judges? Can (and will!) they go on underscoring him?

Thank you! It's good to know you keep an eye on the conditions in Montpellier, Yuzuwinnie!

Thank you! Yes, exactly! It's always so touching when we get to know he has seen some of our comments - for example that many fans are afraid he would retire soon, comments telling him "he is still desired" as a recent translation had it. And when he apologizes for making us worry about him. And when he admits he sometimes sees folded hands in the audience while performing ... So, in the unlikely case of only ONE fanyu making it to the ice rink in Beijing, there will still be (if the pandemic doesn't get worse) many folded hands at Worlds in Montpellier ...

This already brought me to tears when I saw a former version of it. Yuzu defending his fans ...

I've taken week no. 6 off because it's also school holidays here, but completely forgot about 4 February! Don't know yet how I'll be able to work on Friday after having watched the live stream from 3 to 8 a.m., even if I'll be in home office ...

Other people put cucumber slices on their eye lids ...

Ah, thank you. This is finally an article I enjoyed reading. "The skater has set 19 world records, which itself is a world record (...)" Which brings me to the question how anyone could doubt Yuzu's title as GOAT. "(...) has some of the most die-hard fans in the sporting world." Nineteen is a figure that seems somehow incomplete to me. It would look so good if Yuzu made 4A his number 20. So far Yuzu was often surrounded by round figures - like the 1,000th gold medal at Pyeong Chang, was it?

That's good news! Let's hope Yuzu can use the last weeks to prepare under the best possible training conditions.

Thank you for sharing your personal experience! Although I have watched Yuzu's JNats performances on YouTube many times now, this is something different and I can imagine now what the atmosphere was like. And what a wonderful idea that someone played his music in the station! Also good to know that at least ONE Yuzu fan will be in the arena in Beijing!

When I read that line (spelled in English), I was immediately reminded of Toshl who obviously has the same problem: Apparently nobody knows that he's a singer, so he named his recent albums "I'm a singer" I and II. As "Masquerade" is contained on the latter, maybe some journalist has seen a parallel?

So I could have possessed three bears now if our planned travel to Japan hadn't got cancelled due to Covid. The flight back from Japan for myself, my daughter and her dad was scheduled with ANA ...

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have been feeling comfortable here already as a lurker since the atmosphere is peaceful and facts and opinions are exchanged in a respectful and well-reflected way. I really feel at home here with you guys! When something comes up on Twitter or "YuzuTube", it's good to know I can check for more detail on The Planet. @Geo1 In fact is was your story of becoming a fanyu that inspired me to tell mine, but there are so many nice anecdotes of how people have "ended up" here in the rabbit hole - I just love those stories and so does my family when I tell them. Yes, the ballet tribute was really fascinating and also the fate of the people working in a copy shop when a fanyu came to print a Yuzu banner quite a while ago ... I'm certain Yuzu is aware he is an inspiration to so many people but somehow I've got the feeling it can't be said often enough. I've seen that many of you, like myself, got into a dark mood when Yuzu couldn't compete in November. It's ridiculous but knowing he would skate at JNats was my best Christmas present and suddenly the sun was shining again. That's crazy, isn't it?

Hi everybody, I’m new on the Planet - finally managed to get myself registered! After almost 4 years of lurking I guess it’s time to share my little story with you and apply to be officially enfanyuated. 17thFebruary 2018 changed the life of my whole family. We were following the Olympics, watching ski jumping, biathlon etc. And if it wasn’t for my mother who told me about the German gold ambitions in the pairs’ competition, we would have missed figure skating completely. Like we had in 2014. Although I had really enjoyed watching Kati Witt on TV with my mother back in the 80s. German TV reported on the men’s event very early in the morning. (It was Daniel Weiß who also commented the popular Sportschau video of LMEY last year.) Luckily we had recorded it to watch it later that day. When they showed Yuzu’s face in the starting pose of Seimei, I was like: “Wow … who is that? He is strikingly handsome!” We saw him skate and nothing was like it had been 5 minutes ago. When he was fighting the tears in the Kiss & Cry, my teenage daughter and I had already fallen into the rabbit hole. When her dad got home we re-watched it all together and he shared our amazement. My first emergency measure was to print a picture of Yuzu for my daughter’s room so she could look at him before going to sleep. Further, to her delight, I dumped our restriction of internet consumption. Instead of watching TV we switched to “YuzuTube”. (How crazy is it to watch a 50 minute press conference in Japanese if you don’t understand a word?) Why on earth hadn’t we discovered him during Sochi Olympics ?!?! Helsinki is not so far away - we could have gone to Worlds in 2017 !!! Somebody must have heard me crying … When we read Yuzu was going to Helsinki Grand Prix I couldn’t believe it. The event even matched our school holidays! So I reorganized my financial priorities and started communicating online, getting invaluable support from other Yuzu fans and succeeded in buying tickets. (It wasn’t easy to get 3 decent seats side by side, though.) Anyway: It was the 1sttime ever I was looking forward to November - the greyest of all months. The 3 of us spent the best 4 days of our lives in Jäähalli. The atmosphere, the roaring applause like in a football stadium ... Having avoided social media, I had never imagined to find such a nice community on the world-wide web. It’s so much fun reading that most fanyus do as we did - celebrate the anniversaries of Yuzu’s 2nd Olympic gold to drown once again in the emotions that overcame us so unexpectedly (not being able to sleep or work etc.). And now I can hardly bear the anxiety before Beijing. Who would have thought he’d be in a position to try to defend his title again? Even if that’s not his priority. At Helsinki GP, I recall hearing fanyus whispering: “The best is yet to come!” If there was no Yuzuru Hanyu, my family wouldn’t be planning holidays in line with figure skating competitions. The 3 of us wouldn’t share this joy and excitement. There would be a big hole in our lives.