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Plot twist: Boyang wins it instead. (I'm okay with both Boyang and Shoma winning actually. Poor Shoma still has to win an important gold at an International competition) Goddamit. Tell me it's not the language's fault. Japanese is a language relying heavily on context, so translations are always hard.

Ufff, throwing statements like that, though, without context... "It's not gonna get any better, I'm sorry" sounds like a death sentence without context and it's fucking scary. Reading the Japanese original, it does sound like the doctor's statement was contextualised in a time limit. So, 'it won't get better in this specific moment', AS IN, 'you need more time to heal'. Which is perfectly fine by me.

Holy hell +30 pages during my sleeping time? And I miss ridiculous icenetwork article, Patrick complimenting himself, and regular media reporting Yuzu and Shoma's ages wrong? Well, all regular, then.

It is with all the love in the world that I say NO more Seimei after this season thx.

Rational and calm-inducing thoughts may follow. I feel like we're listening to the words of a very emotionally, physically and generally energy drained Yuzuru who just won the medal he has fought for all his life. It's a bit like when you Graduate - you feel lost, maybe you don't know what you're gonna do with your life later. It's a whole new chapter, it's a mystery - in Yuzuru's case, a mystery complicated by a physical condition of which he doesn't have all the information necessary to take decisions on your future. Why should he think about competing next season NOW? Why should he be busy thinking about other competitions, other fights, other challenges? He needs to rest mentally, that's all he needs - these 3 months off-ice haven't been rest, on the contrary, they've been a nightmare, they've been maybe one of his greatest challenges ever. He's only human, so, to me, it sounds perfectly normal that he's saying these things about not knowing where his future lies, and sharing his worries about his physical condition. It's completely normal and it would be unhuman for him to behave in any other way. I am 100% certain that he wants to keep competing, because if there are two things he loves doing the most in his life, it's skating and skating to win. When asked what he wanted to do the most now, he didn't say "rest and stop thinking about skating", he didn't say "go back to my family". He said "Rehabilitation", which is self-explicating. The one thing he wants to do the most is go back to being healthy again, because only if he is healthy again he can keep skating at his levels. By saying 'therapy, rehabilitation', he's actually saying that his priority is going back to skating, but being completely healthy, which is, if I'm not mistaken, exactly what most of us have always hoped of him: that he learned to pace himself, and put his health above all. Of course, the one element that can be scary is not knowing about the injury. He skated using painkillers, so he must be scared, because he learnt in the past that these things only make the injuries worse. But I don't believe he's in a situation where rehabilitation isn't possible. Why shouldn't it be possible? He's young, his ankles and feet are delicate, but strong. He's authorized to feel panicked and yeah, maybe even a little depressed about his situation. (I wouldn't be surprised if he actually had gone through a depressive crisis during his off-time. The fact that he came back and did that and he wasn't faking it, well, just goes to show his mental strenght). So, maybe, this is one of the cases in which we have to be strong for him. We're not the ones risking our body, here. Again, it's perfectly normal for him to express fear about his condition. Like many people have said, he felt similarily in Boston, felt like he couldn't take for granted his future carreer. But he never stopped fighting for it, so hell he's not gonna stop now.

I'm gonna add a request of the post-Freeskate conference pretty please? I've read translations around, but no video!

Nope no real content here just showing off my shiny roaring legendary kitten happiest-moment-of-his-life profile pic

He just has to find that 'helsinki free' spot in which, even if he feels like he has no energy, he breathes and the program is skated for itself. I think he can do it.

I feel so proud. I don't hide that I had my fears, my anxieties. Being so nervous myself, and not even being one of the athletes who's supposed to skate, I couldn't for the life of me imagine how Yuzuru could manage all of those feelings, all of those expectations, all of that hope and attention. When I saw him in Helsinki, I was still pretty new to him and to the sport, I didn't have high expectations, but him going clean in the Free looked and sounded so right. But after a year of hardships, I know that he did it not because of magic, and not because of good fortune, but because he has the mindset of a Champion, he is truly strong and unique. He is an inspiration like few have ever existed in my generation.

Absolutely! This a hundred thousand times!!!

You could try and alternate fruits you like and dried fruit like almonds or nuts. I drink a lot of tea to always sip something sweet. Also, my sleeping schedule is completely fucked up and today I woke up at 1 pm LOL, so knowing I spend a lot of hours without eating, I don't feel particularily guilty about eating. Yesterday up until 10 pm I only ate coffee and a slice of bread and peanut butter xDDDD PB satisfies my cravings a lot. I could eat just that all day long. (the only American habit I have in my blood...) The only problem being, I feel so nervous, I actually feel my stomach completely closed. I wonder how the hell skaters manage these problems. I always remember Yuzu, Shoma and Nobu's interview in which they talk about having diarrhea before competitions That's so much like me. If I were them, I would, like, stop eating at least 10 hours before a competition. But then, what if you don't have enough energy??? I guess only drink water with minerals. I can't hope for that. I have SO MANY other things to cry about!! I'll be a crying mess for hours and at one point I'm gonna stop because I'll forget what I was crying about I wonder if my period has something to say about this...

I would go out and buy them probably HAHAHA Today I'll spare my wallet, but tomorrow I'll have guests for the Free, so I will make a fort out of candies and fries

I haven't heard what Max said lately, I think he's busy commenting on a lot of different winter sports. But tonight, he should be commenting on the Men's individual. I will follow his comment if Eurosport player will allow me to. He should have a calming effect on my nerves... Unluckily, in my house now there are both homemade peanut butter AND chocolate hazelnut spread. I think I'm doomed.

Mmh... 5 out of 10? c: Maybe only his fans, lol! (are judges even human? I still don't know)

He's probably never been this happy to be skating!! He's about to skate on his dream stage... it's basically his dream come true!! However he goes, these are probably some of the happiest days of his life... look at him, all squishy and child-like again

Ciao, io farò la volontaria a Milano e in particolare mi occuperò degli acquirenti degli all-event. E' possibile che ci incroceremo quindi, mi chiamo Muriel c: Anche se è possibile che mi facciano stare più con giapponesi che con altri, dato che mastico un minimo di giapponese e anzi, lo voglio mettere in pratica io stessa. Alle gare maschili però sarà presente anche mia sorella e una sua amica :3 che non stanno in questo gruppo perché non sono malate di Yuzuru quanto me lol.

Chopin choreo or just beautiful posing for beautiful swan??

It was huge and very tilted, I'm glad he only did that and didn't go on doing quads. He must have been tired from jetlag. 3A supernatural landing ability tho.

I can't imagine how it must feel like not wanting to see him live! To me, live is everything there is to it... it's the beauty of a performance, like the difference between listening a concert with headphones and listening to it live... I don't know. I'm gonna die if I don't watch it live. I've survived ACI FS and WTT SP, so I should be fine, right? xD Bomb proof.

I'm so calm. And confident. It's gonna go great.

All regular

Nevermind I just realized that whatever the results will be, at the end of Yuzu's FS, we will ALL be crying we just have to find out what kind of crying it will be

Mmmh you're raising my expectations like this!! But whatever, I am HYPED.

It would have been more comical written this way: Chen quivered when asked Wednesday what he expected from Hanyu, saying simply, 'I don't want to think about it', and lowering his voice in fear.

In the end, it's always gonna be the 3Lz, isn't it