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Pammi

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36 minutes ago, micaelis said:

The Americans are talking up Nathan as much as possible but I have a feeling that secretly they are terrified because China is a place where American money and influence will not work as far as this Olympics are concerned.  I know everyone here has been lamenting over unfair judging but (this might be wishful thinking on my part) they are not taking into account that these Olympics are also a political event as well as a sporting event and here's where the American scenario will not inevitably work to the Americans' liking.  The fact is that the current Chinese head of state, Xi Jinping, is betting a lot on this spectacle.  He wants it to run smoothly and free of controversy.  He even went so far as to order the shutdown of many industrial facilities so as to remove as far as possible the air pollution so prevalent in Beijing.  He wants blue skies for the event (at least if the skies are grey he wants them to be natural, not manmade).  The last thing he wants is a scandal and a scandal in figure-skating would be the last kind of scandal he wants.  One has to remember that figure-skating and alpine skiing are the two glamor sports in the winter games.  They go all the way back to the beginnings of the Winter Olympics.  He knows also that Yuzu has a huge following in China, a following that is substantially greater than that of Boyang Jin, China's premier men's skater and that Nathan's following there is virtually nonexistent.  I am certain that he is quite aware of the criticism of judging of Yuzu and Nathan and realizes there is potential scandal there and he also probably knows how strong Yuzu's fanbase is around the world and that outside of North America the prevailing sentiment amongst the public as well as the skating commentariat  is for Yuzu to get his third gold and do his 4A.  I am quite certain that the Olympics authorities have been told that the judging of the men's figure-skating be totally by the book and that if Yuzu is clearly the superior the judges' scores should reflect that.  The thing is that if Nathan were to win because of biased judging the furor would not make Xi look good.  It would mar his Olympics and right now his position in the Chinese power structure is a bit shaky because of very serious problems with financing of construction projects over the years that are now facing the fact that the bills are due.  The problems threaten the entire Chinese economy and Xi needs every bit of good news that he can get and an Olympics scandal is not the kind of news he wants.  So I am not so bleak in my outlook as so many here are.  If the scoring is fair (and it should be if my reasoning here is sound) then Yuzu can do the job all of us expect him to do and come home with the gold.

It's certainly interesting when you look into the politics that might come into play, and I do so want this to be true.....but it's hard when we know that (some of) the chosen judging panel for men has form!  :curse:

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KendallKlaire Baby Swan

KendallKlaire

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Twitter Fanyus, question: Does anyone else find their trending page a little odd?

 

I understand as a US Twitter user I am bound to see things geared more for American audiences so I have been seeing 'Nathan Chen' trending for me. But the weird thing is when it appears it always has about 1,100+ Tweets with it but when 'Yuzu' randomly trends for me it is always with 10,000+ Tweets. The weirder thing is that when I click on Chen's trend a bunch of older tweets appear (and many of them are not kind towards his skating) meanwhile Yuzu always has recent Tweet and articles. Does this happen to anyone else or is this a more personalized thing? I mean, it's obvious who the more popular one is and who the media is using for clicks rather than being forcibly shoved down our throats.

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Muffinator 4Lo

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Dear Fanyus,

During these exciting, but stressful Olympic times, we may have trouble relaxing and falling to sleep. I have found that listening to the Music with Wings broadcast most satisfying and relaxing. It is a beautifully orchestrated collection of some of Yuzu’s skating music recorded in January of 2020. It’s a video, but You can close your eyes and listen as you fall asleep. It may even help you while studying. This is the link I use; I hope it works for you. I’m sorry that I don’t know how to make it a clickable link from my iPad. Perhaps copy and paste it?


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9HihCddbZ3XFjemljC209GyTh6YU7eh/view 

 

 

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Guest Mary_kyo

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43 minutes ago, KendallKlaire said:

Twitter Fanyus, question: Does anyone else find their trending page a little odd?

 

I understand as a US Twitter user I am bound to see things geared more for American audiences so I have been seeing 'Nathan Chen' trending for me. But the weird thing is when it appears it always has about 1,100+ Tweets with it but when 'Yuzu' randomly trends for me it is always with 10,000+ Tweets. The weirder thing is that when I click on Chen's trend a bunch of older tweets appear (and many of them are not kind towards his skating) meanwhile Yuzu always has recent Tweet and articles. Does this happen to anyone else or is this a more personalized thing? I mean, it's obvious who the more popular one is and who the media is using for clicks rather than being forcibly shoved down our throats.

If you mean does twitter have the option of paid promoting, yes it does. But the policy (at least in the past) was to mark those paid trending topics. They upgrade their algorithm frequently but as far as I know, it doesn’t just look for the keywords most tweeted, it includes other factors such as the time it took for those tweets to appear. So it’s not strange that a topic with few tweets trend for a short while. It means it gathered very short attention in the right time. If it trends for a long time without the number of tweets increasing, then yes, it’s a little bit strange or maybe no other interesting topics happening at the moment lol

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Chunichi article about the "WD" displayed on a screen:

https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/412361

 

DeepL translation

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What? Hanyu abstains from the Beijing Olympics!? At the start of the figure skating team event, the name of Yuzuru Hanyu (27), a member of the ANA, appeared on the TV screen in the press box, along with the message "WD (abstain)".

 

The message appeared during the team ice dance practice. The words "HANYU Yuzuru" and the word "WD", meaning "Withdraw", appeared on the right side of the screen.

 

Hanyu had sent a video message to the official Twitter of the Japan Skating Federation on the 3rd. On the same day, the Japanese team was asked about Hanyu's arrival in Beijing by foreign media at a press conference, and they responded, "I can't say anything about his trip." which is believed to have been displayed as a test, but the truth is...

 

This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].
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