Please everyone, don't start all this worrying again, enough is enough, at least TRY to be optimistic for one day? Worrying is not good for your own health, and there's nothing you can do about Yuzuru's health, so...
Here's a little something to make you all forget about imagined-or-not stiff backs and no-biellmans and whatnots.
Or way off-topic: go watch that GYMRUSSIA thing that's on youtube right now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvUegearYc
talk about stiff backs, wow, those ladies have no bones in their backs at all.
Lazy transcription from Eurosport SP Dutch commentary: (lots of paraphrasing, I don’t feel like writing everything down).
SP
During the warmup they talk a bit about how Hanyu is ‘un-Japanese’ in the sense that he did move away from Japan to train at a young age, whereas most Japanese skaters train in Japan.
Yuzuru Hanyu has the world record, with 110.95, one of those few men who can score over 100 points. If he skates relatively clean today, that should be possible.
Most difficult jump, the quad loop, there it is, very beautifully executed. Oh nooo, double salchow, triple toeloop, misses two rotations. And then the triple is good, very nice.
In one second he leaves about ten points lying around, and that’s exactly what he misses [compared to Chen’s tech score]. He doesn’t look like he minds, though. He even jumped it double instead of quad and put a triple at the end, so it was still allowed, but a double and a quad are about ten points in difference, so that’s a lot. The music is terrific, by Prince, skated with all his heart, he went completely for it, although maybe a little less than if he’d jumped the quad. 4CC isn’t his thing, he never won the gold here, but since around the 2012 season he never relaly ended up lower than second (not sure what they’re talking about here, 4CC or in general). But he’s usually there when it really counts. This quad loop was magnificent. It’s his focus this season, to add that quad loop to both programs. Oh well, it’s not that bad, better that it happens here than at the World championship, or, imagine at the Olympics next year, just letting go of 10 points in the SP. Yes, he has to manage his peaks every season. He usually starts not so well in the GP season, peaks at the GPF, then it’s a bit lower again, and then it has to peak at Worlds. Last two years the Worlds weren’t great, but in the Olympic season it worked wonderfully. Just like in speed skating (my comment: lol, Dutch commentary mentioning speed skating), very important, managing your peaks, because the season is so long (they talk a bit about the different competitions, inc Japanese nationals, and next year when things change around a bit due to the Olys).
They can laugh about it, Orser and Hanyu, it won’t be 100 but it’ll be close, 97.04. Components average of 9.4 which one of the commentators (who also is an ISU judge) thinks is rather high, but he’s happy with it. He thanks the judges, you saved me, well, that’s not true, Yuzuru, it was actually very good aside from that one jump, of course.
Here's a little something to make you all forget about imagined-or-not stiff backs and no-biellmans and whatnots.
Or way off-topic: go watch that GYMRUSSIA thing that's on youtube right now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvUegearYc
talk about stiff backs, wow, those ladies have no bones in their backs at all.
Lazy transcription from Eurosport SP Dutch commentary: (lots of paraphrasing, I don’t feel like writing everything down).
SP
During the warmup they talk a bit about how Hanyu is ‘un-Japanese’ in the sense that he did move away from Japan to train at a young age, whereas most Japanese skaters train in Japan.
Yuzuru Hanyu has the world record, with 110.95, one of those few men who can score over 100 points. If he skates relatively clean today, that should be possible.
Most difficult jump, the quad loop, there it is, very beautifully executed. Oh nooo, double salchow, triple toeloop, misses two rotations. And then the triple is good, very nice.
In one second he leaves about ten points lying around, and that’s exactly what he misses [compared to Chen’s tech score]. He doesn’t look like he minds, though. He even jumped it double instead of quad and put a triple at the end, so it was still allowed, but a double and a quad are about ten points in difference, so that’s a lot. The music is terrific, by Prince, skated with all his heart, he went completely for it, although maybe a little less than if he’d jumped the quad. 4CC isn’t his thing, he never won the gold here, but since around the 2012 season he never relaly ended up lower than second (not sure what they’re talking about here, 4CC or in general). But he’s usually there when it really counts. This quad loop was magnificent. It’s his focus this season, to add that quad loop to both programs. Oh well, it’s not that bad, better that it happens here than at the World championship, or, imagine at the Olympics next year, just letting go of 10 points in the SP. Yes, he has to manage his peaks every season. He usually starts not so well in the GP season, peaks at the GPF, then it’s a bit lower again, and then it has to peak at Worlds. Last two years the Worlds weren’t great, but in the Olympic season it worked wonderfully. Just like in speed skating (my comment: lol, Dutch commentary mentioning speed skating), very important, managing your peaks, because the season is so long (they talk a bit about the different competitions, inc Japanese nationals, and next year when things change around a bit due to the Olys).
They can laugh about it, Orser and Hanyu, it won’t be 100 but it’ll be close, 97.04. Components average of 9.4 which one of the commentators (who also is an ISU judge) thinks is rather high, but he’s happy with it. He thanks the judges, you saved me, well, that’s not true, Yuzuru, it was actually very good aside from that one jump, of course.
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arty:
But then again, he looks so fired up, I'm sure he's happy with himself but also burning to beat Nathan. And that could end up so amazing in Helsinki. I'm so excited for it! 
