to Satoko, her team and fans there, especially wonderful ioanna, so dedicated and passionate over Satoko, her skating, career and fierce supporter, but keeping it real (if you know what I mean, just like Satoko herself - great, but down to earth and humble beyond imagination).
I already expressed my sadness over Satoko's withdrawal from Worlds, but want to pop there to give lots of
), determined to bring the skater closer to other people or/and opposite - bring others to Satoko's skating and beyond that. This thread is always full of positivity, great memories and information of Satoko, for me there's always something special to read, to watch or to appreciate in her, not only as a skilled skater, athlete, but also as a very humble, hard-working and poised person.
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I hope that this is long enough. She can probably skate after a month, but jumping very likely isn't a good idea then. No painkillers. Stress fractures are hard to diagnose and if she isn't patient it can't heal properly. And then everything starts from zero again. They have to try to understand why it happened in the first place. She'll probably not be allowed to do the number of runthroughs she did in the past, even when the stress fracture is fully healed.
