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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...9ab_story.html
Nathan Chen won the US Figure Skating Championship last night with a total score of 315.23, forty points ahead of his closest competitor. Whether that will be enough to compete with Japan's Hanyu Yuzuru is anyone's guess. For now, my money is on Hanyu. On the women's side, the increased emphasis on athleticism over style has not served American skaters well, leaving them behind women from Russia, Japan, and South Korea. Quote:
By the way, I'm pretty sure an anime song played during Hanyu's performance last spring, but I can't place it. It starts just before the three-minute mark. Any ideas?
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2020-11-08, 06:30 | Link #443 |
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"Not long after skaters were back in rinks the competitive calendar began shrinking because of COVID-19-related limits on international travel. Two of the six Grand Prix events — Skate Canada and the Internationaux de France — were canceled, and Skate America and the upcoming other three in Russia, Japan, and China were limited to domestic competitors and foreigners training there or from nearby countries."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/...possible-time/
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2021-10-20, 11:33 | Link #446 |
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Nathan Chen on how Serena Williams and Simone Biles helped him recover from a disappointing performance in the 2018 Olympics.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...sense-of-peace
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2022-02-08, 08:55 | Link #447 |
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Quads are coming to womens' skating, and unsurprisingly not everyone is happy with the development
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ar-will-it-go/
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2022-02-10, 08:52 | Link #449 |
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The 15-yo Russian girl who hit the first quad in competition is now being investigated for doping. Apparently changing to the "Committee" hasn't changed the Russians' behavior.
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sp...on-2022-02-09/
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2022-02-13, 10:08 | Link #450 |
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Nathan Chen delivers a powerhouse free-skate performance to win Olympic gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVL9WY3dUw (embedding not allowed}
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2022-02-13, 22:36 | Link #451 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Nothing against Nathan but would have been better if the ISU did not try their hardest to suppress Yuzu with underscoring and pressure to retire in favor of their preferred contestants each time before then casting them aside once the next big star comes along. Or the media/propaganda circus and smear campaigns that came along with it. I really cannot take FS medal results seriously since a very long time and am in it purely for the athletes' individual performances. Seriously, you can pull almost a perfect 4A, the closest anyone has come to it yet, and the ISU will overscore your team mate to knock you off the podium and the media will still somehow criticize you for the "failure" or publish low effort political hit pieces implying how Chinese fans should not support Hanyu over Chen and that they do so because of nationalist reasons (which makes no sense since he is Japanese of all things...). Just look at the short program where they essentially sealed the deal. One unlucky hole in the ice + massively skewed scoring means even with a clean skate in everything else, Hanyu will have almost minimal chance of podium let alone retaining his title....And he actually almost podium-ed if not for Shoma being overscored heavily. FS is even more borked than gymnastics. The real test for Nathan Chen comes now if the ISU and American skate federation tires of him and he can overcome those currents to retain his title. Unlike the more bitter Yuzu fanbase I actually have nothing against Chen but the system backing him is hopelessly rotten. People look at Eteri's slave driver training methods of the Russian girls but don't realize America uses just as underhanded methods to attempt to control the tournament
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2023-02-15, 16:06 | Link #452 |
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CLAMP is drawing a picture book about Hanyu Yuzuru.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...-hanyu/.194877 The ladies at CLAMP were apparently surprised by the commission. "We were really surprised when we received this consultation. We want to help deliver another 'Gift' conceived by Mr. Hanyu to everyone through this picture book, which is different from the unprecedented 'Gift' performance."
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