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Attempting to answer your first two questions:
The rule is in a FS you can only repeat two types of triple/quads and if you repeat a jump, at least one MUST be in combination or you get hit with a +REP penalty that eats up 30% of the repeated jump's BV. In Yuzuru's case, he usually repeats his 3A (which he tends to use in combination with 1Lo3S and 2T) and then one type of quad. In the 2015-2016 season he repeated the 4T, in the 2016-2017 season it was the 4S, this season he went back to repeating the 4T until he got injured. In order for him to do a 4-quad layout at the Olympics, though, and not use the 4Lo or 4Lz, he dropped a repeated 3A in order to repeat both 4S and 4T.
Now if, say, he repeats the 4T and pops a 4T into a 3T, he's now repeating the 3T instead, but usually his other 3T is already in combo so the only consequence is he loses a lot of BV with the pop but not with Zayaking (repeating more than the requisite number of triples/quads). If he were to pop a 4S into a 3S and a 4T into a 3T (the horror!) he usually has enough time to do a 3A1Lo2S and avoid repeating both of those.
He repeats the 3A because it's worth more than 3F and 3Lz and it's his best triple. Since he can do combos in the second half with that jump, which is factored the same as quads (full GOE factoring), his combos can be worth as much as quads.
4T3A is a valid combination but it'd be called as a sequence and be worth 70% of its combined BV exactly because of the changing of foot necessary to link both jumps. So it's not worth it.
The rule is in a FS you can only repeat two types of triple/quads and if you repeat a jump, at least one MUST be in combination or you get hit with a +REP penalty that eats up 30% of the repeated jump's BV. In Yuzuru's case, he usually repeats his 3A (which he tends to use in combination with 1Lo3S and 2T) and then one type of quad. In the 2015-2016 season he repeated the 4T, in the 2016-2017 season it was the 4S, this season he went back to repeating the 4T until he got injured. In order for him to do a 4-quad layout at the Olympics, though, and not use the 4Lo or 4Lz, he dropped a repeated 3A in order to repeat both 4S and 4T.
Now if, say, he repeats the 4T and pops a 4T into a 3T, he's now repeating the 3T instead, but usually his other 3T is already in combo so the only consequence is he loses a lot of BV with the pop but not with Zayaking (repeating more than the requisite number of triples/quads). If he were to pop a 4S into a 3S and a 4T into a 3T (the horror!) he usually has enough time to do a 3A1Lo2S and avoid repeating both of those.
He repeats the 3A because it's worth more than 3F and 3Lz and it's his best triple. Since he can do combos in the second half with that jump, which is factored the same as quads (full GOE factoring), his combos can be worth as much as quads.
4T3A is a valid combination but it'd be called as a sequence and be worth 70% of its combined BV exactly because of the changing of foot necessary to link both jumps. So it's not worth it.
Took me a while to figure out 羽生==“Born of feathers” —> “Continues with Wings.” And then there’s the random winky CiONTU hashtag with silent I, 
, his mind is one of a kind.
“WTF kind of question is this?”). Yuzuru: “Not at all! It makes it easier because performing on ice is the only outlet I have!” Everyone: *laughs* (My reaction, 
). That is perfect grace and humor right there, when I wouldn’t blame a celebrity if they walked off the set at that line of questioning.
First off what would this reporter know about Yuzuru’s abstinence. That’s a huge assumption to make and a horrible question. I too would not have blamed Yuzuru or any other celebrity for that matter for immediately ending the interview after such an intrusive question. 
