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I'm nothing if not a sharer. Sharing is caring. Oh I never had a doubt you'd be right on top of things.

I'll take them all. I think I've accumulated enough buttons to look like a girl scout with all her badges. Maybe I should start working on a vest

So I finally added my pictures from ACI to the forum gallery. I know some of us have been racking our brain on what Yuzu's height could be. I got a pic with Javi at ACI which could maybe help. I'm 5'7 (or 170cm). I had thinner tennis shoes on that day and so did Javi so that slight elevation in height could cancel out. He's a little taller than me so he is definitely over 5'7. It's just a matter of where Yuzu is in relation to that.

Gosh I really gotta start finalizing my schedule for PC. I'm kind of glad the public can only see one practice session or else I wouldn't be touring anything.

Happy New Year, fellow satellites! 2017 certainly had its ups and downs but I am all here for it to be up up and up for Yuzu and for all of us in 2018.

He is probably the only one that would never bore me if he only ever did jumps. It's a treat that he is so skilled everywhere else too. Amazing. and then this is right on time with the 23 +3s on jumps he's received:

Preaching to the choir. I was Team Yulia the first time I saw her skate! She reminded me of Sasha in a lot of ways. Imagine what she would be like now after a few more seasons. I'm sure she'd be so polished and mature.

That banner really is something else @gladi. I'm sure seeing it in person would is surreal experience.

You are right, the lack of a break didn't help. I don't think it'll help now either but the events being in the morning could help so they have time to have a more restful night. I don't think he'll run into Yulia's situation where she got spooked by her overnight fame. You can't really get much bigger than a Yuzuru Hanyu in this sport. It'll just depend on if he feels up to it. Should he go for it, at least the Team Men's SP and Team FS are a few days apart. I think I'll be crying no matter what on Men's FS day. I'm just hoping it's tears of joy which can only happen if he wins again.

I just can't look at that and say "that's a 20 year old" . And here's another cutie:

Ugh, that suuuucks! Can you pretend to be sick? YOLO and all that? I have 2nd and 4th row seats for the team event, so while that would be a treat for me on one hand, on the other I don't love the idea because I fear burnout and I would 100% hate it if he left his best skating on team event ice. I also was looking at the team event as a low anxiety situation and I just don't feel that way when he's skating because I want him to win all the time . But he knows his body better than the rest of us and if he thinks it's not too much all we can do is cheer him on. Besides, it's not like he wouldn't do SP and FS run throughs on those days anyway. I don't think the SP for Sochi bothered him at all. He did a better short in the singles. It was just Olympic nerves that got to him in the free skate I think. Hope it's there when I sneak away for a couple days to Japan while I'm at the games. *fingers crossed*

I know that Team Event Free Skate Practice that will be open to the public will be on the 10th. And then Men's Practice open to the public will be on the 15th. I think these will be at the Ice Arena. They are not on sale yet though despite them saying they would be by now. I have a tour of seoul scheduled for the 10th, but if our guy is gonna be doing he free skate I'll be scrapping it.

Never saw this ceremony. He is so cute!! Back when being a world medallist at all was a big deal. Of course he had every reason to be happy that day. And as we know, he was and is still destined for greater things. And we can't forget the cameo from our now infamous French disco podium. As we can see, it's seen better days.

They should have put a mic to its face and asked it questions. I'm resigned to the fact that if I'm not having a heart attack, it must not be a real Yuzu competition. He has to stay doing the most. Helsinki has me trained like a monkey. Part of me is kind of glad they skate back to back to get it out of the way, but then I know that's harder on them with no break period.

It's still Christmas Eve here, but Merry Christmas to my fellow satellites! I woke up to watch the stream for Olympic team announcements and then went back to sleep (now that the semester is over my body is making me catch up hardcore). I just got back from doing some last minute shopping so there's nothing better to do than to make my holiday egg nog, kick my feet up, and maybe play that Final Fantasy XV DLC that's been nagging at me.

I totally understand the concern, but really whatever happens on February 16th and 17th is what was meant to happen. We will accept whatever it is because we have to. What Yuzu has given us already will never change and he still has more to give beyond those 2 days of competition. He is so much more than 2 days and he is already an Olympic Champ which never goes away. I'm working on making my peace with that whether I end up super happy or super disappointed. At least if it's the latter it will not have been my first rodeo (I survived Sasha's loss and she didn't even have World and Olympic title performances to look back on for consolation ).

I think he will be on TCC like white on rice until he leaves for Korea. Unless he opts for 4CC.

It would be so much easier for me as a fan if Yuzu simply expressed wanting to just aim for the podium. But knowing it would mean the world to him to win and anything but gold would be crushing, especially considering these circumstances, it's why I can't truly be satisfied with anything else but gold. I'm going to these games and they were on the plan for me since 2011 before I really even knew about Yuzu. I wish I could go in like I will for the team event, essentially not caring and just trying to enjoy the skating. But my empathy is just too great. I want it for him so bad because he wants it so bad and the quality of his skating when he's able to put it all together shows he deserves it so much. Realistically, I know it's better to temper my expectations, but Yuzu doesn't always make me rational.

If you were the best that day you were the best that day (or in Nate's case, the best that event because he keeps losing the LPs). While some do, I don't devalue Yuzu's Olympic Gold even though he won it imperfectly. That is still a title bestowed upon him to reinforce his greatness and legend.

Hey guys, so did Yuzu stay in the Olympic village in Sochi?

And I think the fans should get a featurette.

They are really sprucing up the place. Fitting for the home of Japan's only OGMs thusfar.

Maybe, but would it leave an impression if he is a little rusty with it in the team event? But at that point it should be about as good as it's gonna get I guess. Japan's singles are strong enough to get it done.

I'd prefer he do the team competition, but only the SP. That is a really short turnaround to have to do it all again in the singles event and I would hate hate hate for him to leave his best skating on the team event ice like Lipnitskaya did (though I know she had other things going on with becoming an overnight darling of the games and being understandably spooked by it). And I say this despite having a 2nd row seat for the team event free skate and a 4th row for the team shorts. But I guess he and his team will decide what's best.

Nathan's margin was thanks to a technicality since Shoma lost a point for a time violation. Those things freak me out for this particular reason. When Yuzu lost that extra point in Helsinki in the SPs for the late start that was nagging me like crazy, even more than him being 12 points back.