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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2013-14 Season

s9580 said:
The kid has never let me down, I love his answer to the EX question! IMO, he's right that such an impressive, or even legendary, program cannot be repeated. He can perform it again but the feeling will not be the same. The best way to appreciate R&J-1 is to watch the Nice 2012 for 10000000000 times:biggrin:. Let's just keep it in everyone's memory, that's what we call a classic piece of art, isn't it?

I find the judges were indeed strict to Hanyu this time. It's still acceptable and I can't say the judges were wrong but Yuzu's GOE and PCS in FS were both a bit tight. Probably the judges wanted to recover from the Olympics scandal? They really gave a test to the reigning Olympics champion.:laugh:
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They were even more strict toward Mao, knowing that she will be likely to get the gold. They went easy on Machida, Javi when it came to PCS, they went easy on Caro, then strict against Kanako and Akiko. I don't understand anything at all.
 
^ Welcome. We share the same hopes for Yuzuru.

YesWay said:
Somebody asked Hanyu what exhibition he would do, after the small medals - they asked if he would do R&J #1 like in Nice 2012.

Hanyu wanted to keep his Ex number a secret, but he did say that R&J at world's 2012 was a special (legendary?) performance - and people shouldn't expect that again. If he did it in exhibition, it wouldn't be like Nice 2012.

A good answer. He can never repeat that performance, so maybe it's better to let everybody remember that free skate as it was in Nice 2012? Don't go back to it, even as an exhibition?
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Yuzuru's Worlds 2012 R & J1 remains to me his defining skate, the skating equivalent of "the perfect storm" where everything just came together.

Actually after Nice, Yuzuru did the R & J1 last step sequence in exhibition at the 2012 Japan Nationals. Prior to Nice, he also did the same at the 2011 Rostelcom Cup. But in both he did it as encore so he was wearing his Japanese sakura costume at the 2012 Japan Nationals, and t-shirt and jeans and a kind of photographer's vest at the 2011 Rostelcom Cup. :) I think R & J1 was the program Brian Orser was referencing when he described Yuzuru as an "emotional" skater who never did exactly the same choreography twice.
 
Meoima said:
They were even more strict toward Mao, knowing that she will be likely to get the gold. They went easy on Machida, Javi when it came to PCS, they went easy on Caro, then strict against Kanako and Akiko. I don't understand anything at all.
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Yep, very strict to Mao and Kanako. I was a bit shocked when I saw Mao's TES kept rolling down. Mao fell once during her FS, but should not have costed so many GOE and PCS. I didn't watch Maxim's skating but heard that his score inflated a lot. I think Machida's slight overscore on PCS, but it's reasonable and accpetable to me as PCS was not something definitely objective. Machida gave huge performance especially for PE and Interpretation. But I think the problem is that the judges' inconsistency might have gone too far.

Anyway, at least Yuzu was not favored and he still won it, I'm happy with it. I think Machida is the real victim if the judges did have bias on the scores - you really feel painful when you were told to be so closed to the crown but it fell to your rival with only 0.33 at last. If I were Machida, it would be better for me to lose it clearer instead of a tiny little gap of 0.33. :think:
 
Maria Victoria said:
Was half expecting it. Finally a R & J 1 exhibition in proper costume. Wishing Nanami Abe who picked the concept and music and basically did the choreography is in the audience somehow.(Feeling emotional)
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This is the biggest and wormest tribute to Nanami from her kid , I can't even imagine her feeling now . :)
 
^ :) Was thinking of her feelings at Yuzuru's success lately especially at the Olympics. How she must have been so proud of him! To give her blessing to Yuzuru's move to Canada speaks volumes of her character and love for Yuzuru.

Just an anecdote: When Tracy Wilson (now one of Yuzuru's coaches) and Kurt Browning were doing the commentary for the 2011 Rostelcom Cup, after watching Yuzuru's performance of R a & J 1 (and I could sense Kurt was feeling a little stunned by it), Kurt asked Tracy if she was asked to pick music for a 16 year-old boy would she have picked that music and Tracy said no but agreed that he "carried it well."
 
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