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Happy birthday to Yuzuru! I hope he enjoys it wherever he is and know how many people are supporting him :sparkles.001:

It must hurt missing the gpf for the second year in a row but he’s strong and he’ll get through this! I hope he sees the birthday wish on the bus stop at TCC so he can see we’re here for him <3

 

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micaelis 4Lo

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As I write this if Yuzu were in Japan he'd already be 24, but he's in Toronto so he has to wait a few hours.  It's a technicality which I don't think Yuzu's concerned with.  In Toronto I'm sure Mama Hanyu has made him a cake or whatever is a Japanese birthday treat.  There's probably a much larger cake at TCC but there's a lot more people to feed there.  What has me thinking, though, is the Planet's new banner.  That stream of images going all the way back to that very earnest 9-year-old doing his program at a Novice B championship (he did win it, by the way), leading through his increasing wins as he advances in levels, onto Junior level where in the 2009/2010 season he wins, as one commentator said, 'everything in sight', then launching into Senior level skating and, well, the rest, as they say, is history. 

 

This young man has come a long way, although you wouldn't know it if you looked at him.  Physically he's still in late adolescence (at least facially).  Spiritually is where there is such a great difference.  The smiley urchin who around age 11 or so confidently stated he would win the gold at Sochi in 2014 was given a forced maturing in early March 2011 when his world was shaken to bits and then washed away.  Well, it was not quite so bad as that but it was still pretty awful.  His rink still stood but was in heed of extensive repairs.  Only(?) a thousand or so people in Sendai died (out of a bit over 1 million, so just 1%), but that's an awful lot considering there are few of those who survived in Sendai who did not know at least one of those who perished.  In either direction up and down the northeast coast of Japan there were cities that fared much worse, in some cases deaths being in the double-digit percentages of population. 

 

Yuzu spent three nights in a shelter with his family before they were permitted to go back to their house.  Those three nights made Yuzu really start thinking because he knew there were many in that shelter who had no house to return to, who were looking at a long period of trying to get their lives back to normal, if ever.  It was those memories that really made Yuzu feel guilty when he was back to training at his local rink in Sendai.  From that horrifying experience a new Yuzu was born.  The smiling urchin became ancient history as Yuzu worked through his psychological baggage and dedicated his career to those less fortunate from the quake.  Unlike so many other athletes Yuzu was willing to put out time to meet with those who had lived through that same nightmare, visiting schools and senior centers and many other places to reach out to other survivors.  In so doing he put himself in a place few athletes ever achieve, ever even desire to achieve.  Yuzu became a national hero, a disaster survivor whom the quake did not derail, a symbol of Japan's determination to put the quake behind it.  This was underlined in the 2013/2014 season, where Yuzu picked up his first GPF gold, his first World gold and, most significantly, his first Olympic gold.  That Olympic achievement was underlined when one realizes that Yuzu's gold was the only gold in any sport the Japanese won that year.  It was as if fate was making sure that the Japanese would not overlook his achievement.

 

In the summer of 2012 Yuzu moved his training base to Toronto so he could be trained under Brian Orser and his team.  Brian put first things first when Yuzu came and put Yuzu back into figure-skating kindergarten to relearn basic skating skills.  That decision shows the quality of coach Brian is.  He started Yuzu on the course of being the 'complete' skater he is now universally recognized as being.  For Yuzu after that there would be days of glory and days of disaster.  Injuries became Yuzu's greatest threat, from the collision in Shanghai to the operation he required for abdominal problems to the fall seen around the world that almost derailed his dream of a second Olympic gold to the most recent injury keeping him away from the ice for the second year in a row and forcing him now to concentrate on achieving gold in this season's World Championships.

 

Yet those setbacks actually focused Yuzu's resolve more completely.  His iron will was measured by the challenges he faced and the successes he had.  Missing again a good portion of the season Yuzu remains unsubdued.  He's more than ready to take his doctor's advice and pace his healing and rehabilitation but he is not to be deterred from achieving the goals he's set forth, a 4A and another World gold.  Despite the successes that people like Shoma and Nathan and Boyang have, the fact is that come World Championships next year Yuzu will still be the favorite.  The reason?  The sheer quality of the programs he's skating, choreography on a level rarely achieved in figure-skating.  Yuzu's programs are masterpiece novels.  The others are comic books.  If Yuzu skates those programs not simply cleanly, but more important, perfectly, realizing all the PCS points he can marshal, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have the variety of quads the others have.  Even without a 4A, the elusive jump of this season, Yuzu can still take the gold.  He has the skills, he has the choreography, he has the desire but most of all, he has the determination.  Last season in achieving his second Olympic gold we saw how deep his determination can be.  The narrative of his working through a disastrous injury to a towering success has all the makings of a good movie.  Put behind it all that has come before him in his life from smiling urchin to haunted survivor to living legend, Yuzu's life is one that just begs to become a movie. 

 

His birthday is today (or tomorrow to those of us in the Western Hemisphere).  How will Yuzu celebrate it?  Well, the three weeks off the ice ordered by his doctor have passed.  The best celebration for him would be to put his skates back on and get back to business.

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Sabrina Requiem for Heaven and Earth

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30 minutes ago, micaelis said:

As I write this if Yuzu were in Japan he'd already be 24, but he's in Toronto so he has to wait a few hours.  It's technicality which I don't think Yuzu's concerned with.  In Toronto I'm sure Mama Hanyu has made him a cake or whatever is a Japanese birthday treat.  There's probably a much larger cake at TCC but there's a lot more people to feed there.  What has me thinking, though, is the Planet's new banner.  That stream of images going all the way back to that very earnest 9-year-old doing his program at a Novice B championship (he did win it), leading through his increasing wins as he advances in levels, onto Junior level where in 2009/2010 season he wins, as one commentator said, 'everything in sight', then launching into Senior level skating and, well, the rest, as they say, is history. 

 

This young man has come a long way although you wouldn't know it if you looked at him.  Physically he's still in late adolescence (at least facially).  Spiritually is where there is such a great difference.  The smiley urchin who around age 11 or so confidentially stated he would win the gold at Sochi in 2014 was given a forced maturing in early March 2011 when his world was shaken to bits and then washed away.  Well, it was not quite so bad as that but it was still pretty awful.  His rink still stood but was in heed of extensive repairs.  Only(?) a thousand or so people in Sendai died (out of a bit over 1 million, so just 1%), but that's an awful lot considering there are few of those who survived in Sendai who did not know at least one of those who perished.  In either direction up and down the northeast coast of Japan there were cities that fared much worse, in some cases deaths being in the double-digit percentages of population. 

 

Yuzu spent three nights in a shelter with his family before they were permitted to go back to their house.  Those three nights made Yuzu really start thinking because he knew there were many in that shelter who had no house to return to, who were looking at a long period of trying to get their lives back to normal, if ever.  It was those memories that really made Yuzu feel guilty when he was back to training at his local rink in Sendai.  From that horrifying experience a new Yuzu was born.  The smiling urchin became ancient history as Yuzu worked through his psychological baggage and dedicated his career to those less fortunate from the quake.  Unlike so many other athletes Yuzu was willing to put out time to meet with those who had lived through that same nightmare, visiting schools and senior centers and many other places to reach out to other survivors.  In so doing he put himself in a place few athletes ever achieve, ever even desire to achieve.  Yuzu became a national hero, a disaster survivor whom the quake did not derail, a symbol of Japan's determination to put the quake behind it.  This was underlined in the 2013/2014 season, where Yuzu picked up his first GPF gold, his first World gold and, most significantly, his first Olympic gold.  That Olympic achievement was underlined when one realizes that Yuzu's gold was the only gold in any sport the Japanese won that year.  It was as if fate was making sure that the Japanese would not overlook his achievement.

 

In the summer of 2012 Yuzu moved his training base to Toronto so he could be trained under Brian Orser and his team.  Brian put first things first when Yuzu came and put Yuzu back into figure-skating kindergarten to relearn basic skating skills.  That decision shows the quality of coach Brian is.  He started Yuzu on the course of being the 'complete' skater he is now universally recognized as being.  For Yuzu after that there would be days of glory and days of disaster.  Injuries became Yuzu's greatest threat, from the collision in Shanghai to the operation he required for abdominal problems to the fall seen around the world that almost derailed his dream of a second Olympic gold to the most recent injury keeping him away from the ice for the second year in a row and forcing him now to concentrate on achieving gold in this season's World Championships.

 

Yet those setbacks actually focused Yuzu's resolve more completely.  His iron will was measured by the challenges he faced and the successes he had.  Missing again a good portion of the season Yuzu remains unsubdued.  He's more than ready to take his doctor's advice and pace his healing and rehabilitation but he is not to be deterred from achieving the goals he's set forth, a 4A and another World gold.  Despite the successes that people like Shoma and Nathan and Boyang have, the fact is that come World Championships next year Yuzu will still be the favorite.  The reason?  The sheer quality of the programs he's skating, choreography on a level rarely achieved in figure-skating.  Yuzu's programs are masterpiece novels.  The others are comic books.  If Yuzu skates those programs not simply cleanly, but more important, perfectly, realizing all the PCS points he can marshal, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have the variety of quads the others have.  Even without a 4A, the elusive jump of this season, Yuzu can still take the gold.  He has the skills, he has the choreography, he has the desire but most of all, he has the determination.  Last season in achieving his second Olympic gold we saw how deep his determination can be.  The narrative of his working through a disastrous injury to a towering success has all the makings of a good movie.  Put behind it all that has come before him in his life from smiling urchin to haunted survivor to living legend.  Yuzu's life is one that just begs to become a movie. 

 

His birthday is today (or tomorrow to those of us in the Western Hemisphere).  How will Yuzu celebrate it?  Well, the three weeks have passed since he was ordered off the ice by his doctor.  The best celebration for him would be to put his skates back on and get back to business.

nicely said !

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Vadrouille First Pancake

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Happy Birthday to dear Yuzuru.

I wish you good health, happiness and great successes in skating competitions and in life.

I have seen the video of Finnish TV on Yuzuru and his fans at GP Finland in Helsinki 2018. I am so happy to see the reactions of his fans.

Thank you to the poster who made it available to us.

Yes we love him because of the person and the skater he is, despite the injuries, the hardships he encountered.

We are his fans from all over the world, not just Japanese. I am from Canada, Origin from Vietnam. I have met many fans from China, from the US, from Europe, from Asia. We all love him because he speaks to our heart. We are from all ages. 

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