The attention to detail...

 

OK, something to think about.  I've just looked at the schedules for the opening ceremony and the Team Figure Skating competition on that same day.  The skating is done hours before the ceremony and there is no competitive skating taking place the following day.  In an earlier post I had speculated whether the Japanese team might be led into the stadium behind the flag-carrier Yuzuru Hanyu.  Someone said there was competition taking place the next day.  Actually there isn't and the parts of the team competition that take place on the day of the opening ceremony take place in the morning, well ahead of the ceremony.  Secondly it looks like the ceremony is rather stripped down since the duration of the ceremony at least officially, is supposed to come in just under two hours, which I think means the athletes will not be standing for the great lengths of time we've seen in many previous opening ceremonies that just went on and on.  All this leads me to assert that Yuzu should be chosen to bear the flag and lead his teammates onto the field.  Why?  He is obviously the most commanding presence of any Japanese athlete going to the Olympics next year, plus he is the ONLY Japanese athlete in any discipline to earn a gold medal at Sochi.  From my point of view the issue is a no-brainer.  Yuzu leads.

someone handmade this 

4 minutes ago, micaelis said:

OK, something to think about.  I've just looked at the schedules for the opening ceremony and the Team Figure Skating competition on that same day.  The skating is done hours before the ceremony and there is no competitive skating taking place the following day.  In an earlier post I had speculated whether the Japanese team might be led into the stadium behind the flag-carrier Yuzuru Hanyu.  Someone said there was competition taking place the next day.  Actually there isn't and the parts of the team competition that take place on the day of the opening ceremony take place in the morning, well ahead of the ceremony.  Secondly it looks like the ceremony is rather stripped down since the duration of the ceremony at least officially, is supposed to come in just under two hours, which I think means the athletes will not be standing for the great lengths of time we've seen in many previous opening ceremonies that just went on and on.  All this leads me to assert that Yuzu should be chosen to bear the flag and lead his teammates onto the field.  Why?  He is obviously the most commanding presence of any Japanese athlete going to the Olympics next year, plus he is the ONLY Japanese athlete in any discipline to earn a gold medal at Sochi.  From my point of view the issue is a no-brainer.  Yuzu leads.

Is Yuzu the oldest Japanese athlete going into PyeonChang? There could also be the 'seniority' reason for the flag bearer

7 minutes ago, micaelis said:

OK, something to think about.  I've just looked at the schedules for the opening ceremony and the Team Figure Skating competition on that same day.  The skating is done hours before the ceremony and there is no competitive skating taking place the following day.  In an earlier post I had speculated whether the Japanese team might be led into the stadium behind the flag-carrier Yuzuru Hanyu.  Someone said there was competition taking place the next day.  Actually there isn't and the parts of the team competition that take place on the day of the opening ceremony take place in the morning, well ahead of the ceremony.  Secondly it looks like the ceremony is rather stripped down since the duration of the ceremony at least officially, is supposed to come in just under two hours, which I think means the athletes will not be standing for the great lengths of time we've seen in many previous opening ceremonies that just went on and on.  All this leads me to assert that Yuzu should be chosen to bear the flag and lead his teammates onto the field.  Why?  He is obviously the most commanding presence of any Japanese athlete going to the Olympics next year, plus he is the ONLY Japanese athlete in any discipline to earn a gold medal at Sochi.  From my point of view the issue is a no-brainer.  Yuzu leads.

I think you forget something that is REALLY important --> seniority order which seems like the n°1 criteria in Japan (bc'z it's not the same in other country lol ) 

12 minutes ago, MrPudding said:

Is Yuzu the oldest Japanese athlete going into PyeonChang? There could also be the 'seniority' reason for the flag bearer

 

I think that would be Noriaki Kasai, ski jumper, at 45 years of age (!!!!!!). He's the guy Yuzu machine-gun talked to during the garden party to meet the Emperor and Empress of Japan

3 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

I think that would be Noriaki Kasai, ski jumper, at 45 years of age (!!!!!!). He's the guy Yuzu machine-gun talked to during the garden party to meet the Emperor and Empress of Japan

yeah, Chris Reed and Kana Muramoto qualified for ice dance did they not? he's 28

and the ladies ice hockey team qualified, most members of it are late 20s/30s

2 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

I think that would be Noriaki Kasai, ski jumper, at 45 years of age (!!!!!!). He's the guy Yuzu machine-gun talked to during the garden party to meet the Emperor and Empress of Japan

Is he still competing?! Wow kudos to him 

I think that there's a high chance that Yuzu himself will reject the flag bearer position to give it to Mr Noriaki

Just now, lilsailor said:

yeah also Chris Reed and Kana Muramoto qualified for ice dance did they not? he's 28

 

Chris Reed was there for Vancouver and Sochi...

How fast time flies....

Just now, MrPudding said:

Is he still competing?! Wow kudos to him 

I think that there's a high chance that Yuzu himself will reject the flag bearer position to give it to Mr Noriaki

maybe if he wins 2nd ogm [no jinx] he might bear it for the closing ceremony

5 minutes ago, lilsailor said:

maybe if he wins 2nd ogm [no jinx] he might bear it for the closing ceremony

haha yess~ doing the opening ceremony won't be good, i think brian didn't want javi to do it during sochi (he did it anyway). it might have affected his performance (but we'll never know).

 

but then again javi didn't need to skate the team event.

6 minutes ago, MrPudding said:

Is he still competing?! Wow kudos to him 

I think that there's a high chance that Yuzu himself will reject the flag bearer position to give it to Mr Noriaki

 

I guess this would be

 

Yep! He's competing in Pyeongchang!

From NBC4i

Quote

Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai has competed at seven consecutive Olympic Games, beginning in 1992. He owns a total of three Olympic medals, including two that he won at the 2014 Sochi Games. The simple reason he’s still competing, he says, is because he’s lacking a gold medal.

 

Even before Sochi, Kasai hinted that he would aim for an eighth Olympics in PyeongChang, partly because his family had never seen him compete at an Olympics. With South Korea so close to Japan, he said at the time, it would be a good opportunity for his family.

 

3 minutes ago, lilsailor said:

maybe if he wins 2nd ogm [no jinx] he might bear it for the closing ceremony

Gurllll if he gets that 2nd **** then he WILL get everything. Media. Fans. Critiques. Fame. Social media meltdown. Planet crashes. Us dying 

I have to admit when I first start getting into Yuzu I tried to spot him during the opening and closing ceremony of Sochi...I only saw the pairs.  

Just now, kaeryth said:

 

I guess this would be

 

Yep! He's competing in Pyeongchang!

From NBC4i

 

7 Olympics going into 8th

Reason is simple, because he lacks gold...

Yuzu be having dilemmas with his SC silvers