Danibellerika

I love love Satoko's short program! I'm hoping she can get her jumps back in time. Luckily her grand prix assignments are later in the series.

She looks so young though!

Yeah though for me I give it an asterisk, especially for skaters only skating one phase. You could literally do 3 jumping passes and then, boom, olympic medallist, and you could do it while not even placing top 3 for what you did do.

Yeah, team competitions count, at least on paper.

What do they expect her to say? Yes, I'm ready to not be #1 anymore?

The caption says it's a Mustang. Even if it's not, the steering wheel is on the left side of the car so it's definitely a foreign car since the steering wheels in Japan are on the right side.

The USA says you're welcome for the resources you used and continue to use here to make yourself better, including your attendance at Colorado College. I swear his foot in the mouth disease knows no bounds. Any brilliance he has is clearly localized at the opposite end of his head, squarely in his feet .

I love Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, but I don't love the cover Vincent is skating to much. Why not just do the real thing? I guess I'll adjust to it throughout the season...

The word "announcement" scared me for a second

I think I remember Brian saying Yuzu is more effective with shorter but more intensive training while Javi is better with longer time.

Oh I see. Well his intended BV combining SP and LP is 153.18.

I thought it was a recap of last season. Maybe this was his worlds BV score which would have been the highest with 8 quads. Take note, Yuzu's is actually not calculated correctly. He's actually only a hair behind Shoma.

Yeah, it's pretty scary. That's why I was really shocked at the gap with Yuzu's initially. But it wasn't as severe.

I noticed in that Russian article that Yuzu's total BV is off. Should be 153.18.

The fans . Nate, you're not fooling anybody.

They will be mulling over that one fall that could have made the difference between those places. Complete and total pressure cooker. And especially when they have to face each other in these events like whatever that GP is with THREE of them in the same one...

Yeah. That's why I didn't outright say nationals. But this season long audition could be worse because instead of knowing you gotta show up for one competition, in your mind you know you gotta show up for EVERY competition.

I think on some level, making it to the olympics at all is going to be more pressure than actually being at the olympics. This is actually not unheard of because our ladies US gymnastics team says they find the trials harder than the games itself.

There are more screen caps too of him looking so I think it was a while.

I object to this appropriation of pirates!!! j/k

If I had to choose I'd prefer he get the OGM and another world title, but GPF is good for momentum. Either way, if beggars can't be choosers, I want the OGM for him over all else.

From your mouth to the skate god's ears! And a 3rd world title for good measure.

We should do a caption this contest lol.

I found myself staring at Mai the most during practices in Helsinki. She is so very smooth on the ice and I was kind of mesmerized a little just watching her skating around. I admit watching Chan live (and not falling all over himself like in Boston) he also has a quality I appreciate less on tv. He pulled me in and I was surprised by it.

And to think, they won their first 4CC's together