The Winter Universiade is not particularly prestigious in figure skating, federations usually do not send their best skaters there, preferring 4CC/Europeans. JSF decided this year that the skaters going to the Universiade are it's Kozuka and Hino for the men, Oba and Nishino for the ladies, Muramoto/Noguchi for ice dance. Which does not bode well for Kozuka, since it means that they've already excluded him for the 4CC selection.
Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season
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The Winter Universiade is not particularly prestigious in figure skating, federations usually do not send their best skaters there, preferring 4CC/Europeans. JSF decided this year that the skaters going to the Universiade are it's Kozuka and Hino for the men, Oba and Nishino for the ladies, Muramoto/Noguchi for ice dance. Which does not bode well for Kozuka, since it means that they've already excluded him for the 4CC selection.
Sorry for the off-topic, but: NO!!!! :disagree:
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I'm with you. At least give the guy a chance to skate at Nationals first. Do they have alternates lined up if Taka actually knocks it out of the park at nationals?
Probably yes (after all every athletes that frequent university can compete in the Universiade, so nearly all the member of team Japan), but quite honestly after his disastrous fall season, I think he would really have ot skate lights out and have all the other competitors bombing to get choosen for the world teams...
He ranked first in something, what is it I don't know; I can't seem to find the video.
https://twitter.com/sora_775/status/544993823655337984/photo/1
Kozuka is a very quality skater and in an ideal world he would be much better off this season, most probably in the top three japanese men. I hope he will recover from injuries and make up for the season at Nationals. However I don't know what decision JSF will take between him and Mura considering the best of the hipotesis, that Machida will manage well his time with university tasks and the competition and land at least second at the podium, making the team with Yuzuru.
https://twitter.com/sora_775/status/544993823655337984/photo/1
Kozuka is a very quality skater and in an ideal world he would be much better off this season, most probably in the top three japanese men. I hope he will recover from injuries and make up for the season at Nationals. However I don't know what decision JSF will take between him and Mura considering the best of the hipotesis, that Machida will manage well his time with university tasks and the competition and land at least second at the podium, making the team with Yuzuru.
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It seems it was Yuzuru's own wish to move to Orser. I wonder who helped him contact Orser. JSF or ANA?
Translation: http://a-m-n-o-s.tumblr.com/post/105537819091
Translation: http://a-m-n-o-s.tumblr.com/post/105537819091
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great translation by tumblr user a-m-n-o-s 
ohh meoima you beat me
his honesty is just another tumblr user hanyuedits 
ohh meoima you beat me
his honesty is just
another tumblr user hanyuedits
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oooohhh you gave me more gala pictures
awesome, thank you.I just noticed my favorite parts about his new EX and FS comstume. There's illusion mesh all over the neckline for no other reason than to put even more glitter on him
LOVE itsomebody on tublr has translated the German comments from GPF
I'm not sure if my computer messed up or if this picture is really what they chose to use for this
guessing this news wasn't big enough to be handled by anyone but an intern on his first dayUnpopular opinion but I ship that
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I don't think the Dutch Eurosport commentaries have been posted here yet, right? I just watched them, there's actually two different sets of the SP, and one of the FS, because the SP and FS were both included in the recap program, but the SP also in an earlier showing.
I wasn't particularly thrilled with the commentaries, though. Some of those people commenting sound like they have no clue what they're talking about, or at least have no clue what Hanyu really went through, and that annoys me. But if people want, I can translate it?
I wasn't particularly thrilled with the commentaries, though. Some of those people commenting sound like they have no clue what they're talking about, or at least have no clue what Hanyu really went through, and that annoys me. But if people want, I can translate it?
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Actually if we see the whole frame it seems Yuzuru mistook that bottle was for him. It turned out the bottle on the left was for him, not the bottle on the right (which was for Kanako, of course) http://won0066.tumblr.com/post/105487223040/yuzu-ice-he-wanted-to-take-kanakos-waterI too ship Kanako with her water bottle. She won't even let Yuzu get between them!
NO! As in, thumbs down that they've already excluded Kozuka for 4CC selection (I really like him).
JSF contacted Orser, of course. ANA was not Yuzuru's sponsor when he moved to Canada, and anyway why would he contact a potential coach through his sponsor instead of his federation?
I'm with you regarding Kozuka, but unfortunately it's not even a question of underscoring anymore for him. He even risks dropping off the top 24 SB list, and if he ends up not making the Worlds team...
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Yuzuru was the second most searched medalist from Sochi at Google, behind Yuna who dominated the charts: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/2014/story/sochi.html
I don't get this list though, if Gracie Gold was third then they are counting in the team event medalists too. If so then where's Yulia Lipnitskaya, or Plushenko? If Mao were a medalist I guess she would be up there as well since I remember she was the most talked about at twitter I think, if my memory isn't failing me.
I don't get this list though, if Gracie Gold was third then they are counting in the team event medalists too. If so then where's Yulia Lipnitskaya, or Plushenko? If Mao were a medalist I guess she would be up there as well since I remember she was the most talked about at twitter I think, if my memory isn't failing me.
It's a poll for the "athlete you want to hug" the most, if you're still wondering. I'm not big on Japanese athletes so I don't really know anyone else in the ranking, besides Ichiro (baseball player) is second, Takahashi Daisuke is fourth and Nishikori Kei (tennis player) is sixth.
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The comment to that twitter post is:
Hanyu has just turned 20 people!
He's probably not thinking about that at all.
Hanyu has just turned 20 people!
He's probably not thinking about that at all.
