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A week more before Yuzu's official statement.
I hope he is recovering well and enjoying some home time eating his favorite gyoza.
 
I bought "Number" yesterday and these are some quotes by Brian. We don't know when this interview was given but I am pretty sure it was before Yuzuru got injured at least (possibly during the media day since the writer is the same as the book "Team Brian".)

"Yuzuru achieved the second title in the Olympics and it is important for him to consider what he will aim for in his life from now on. Therefore, I told him, "It is ok to take one or two years, but I want you to think about new goals connect to your life after the retirement." Aiming for the third title of the Olympics is fine, but it may be meaningful to think what he wants to do after he retired and in order to do that, what he should do while he is competing."

"Yuzuru enjoys skating currently. Last year, he seemed to have sense of despair in the practice, he looked like he was practicing asceticism. Now he is glad he can skate to music he likes and excited to challenge new jump. As a coach who teaches him, I am relieved that I can see his smiles."

"So far, it has been a teacher-student relationship that we team Brian supports him. But I don't have anything to instruct him who is 23 years old and won two titles in the Olympics. Yuzuru sets his goals and decides how to do, he goes forward on his own feet. I am more like a partner than a coach, and that is going to be the chapter 3 for me and Yuzuru. We will walk together considering his heart to make his new dream come true."
 
yude said:
I bought "Number" yesterday and these are some quotes by Brian. We don't know when this interview was given but I am pretty sure it was before Yuzuru got injured at least (possibly during the media day since the writer is the same as the book "Team Brian".)

"Yuzuru achieved the second title in the Olympics and it is important for him to consider what he will aim for in his life from now on. Therefore, I told him, "It is ok to take one or two years, but I want you to think about new goals connect to your life after the retirement." Aiming for the third title of the Olympics is fine, but it may be meaningful to think what he wants to do after he retired and in order to do that, what he should do while he is competing."

"Yuzuru enjoys skating currently. Last year, he seemed to have sense of despair in the practice, he looked like he was practicing asceticism. Now he is glad he can skate to music he likes and excited to challenge new jump. As a coach who teaches him, I am relieved that I can see his smiles."

"So far, it has been a teacher-student relationship that we team Brian supports him. But I don't have anything to instruct him who is 23 years old and won two titles in the Olympics. Yuzuru sets his goals and decides how to do, he goes forward on his own feet. I am more like a partner than a coach, and that is going to be the chapter 3 for me and Yuzuru. We will walk together considering his heart to make his new dream come true."
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That's lovely... I'm tearing up because Juhnwan made the final and I soooo wanted Yuzu to be there with him (but want him to talk care of that precious ankle more)

Can I take comfort in the fact that - even when he skated his second FS with the injury - Yuzu still is on the top of the GPS ranking. And the WRs are still all his (I do expect that to change at the final, but then he can take it back again)
 
It is really touching to read Orser cares about Yuzuru not only as a current skater but also as a human being. Life is long and Yuzuru's life is longer than his competitive career, Orser must know through his experience how important it is to spend fruitful life after the retirement. And the part, "I am more like a partner", he would not say that if he didn't trust Yuzuru.

Congratulations (officially) on qualifying for GPF Yuzuru :)
 
It's nice to see some big names like Todd Eldridge acknowledge Yuzu via Twitter. [emoji121]

And I also await 3rd of Dec anxiously that his ankle condition isn't too bad.
I was almost wondering if NNN will do another documentary on Yuzu before Worlds like they did for olympics, because we know he will be in his cave and we won't hear anything about him for months on end.
 
Hello do we have any confirmation now if King Yuzu will compete on the finals? I saw a post from CBC adding Keegan on the final list of men competing for the finals. So i'm a little confuse why did they do that. Also how come Yuzu only has 222 pages here when he is like the most famous skater ever? :confused:
 
Xhesikokale said:
Hello do we have any confirmation now if King Yuzu will compete on the finals? I saw a post from CBC adding Keegan on the final list of men competing for the finals. So i'm a little confuse why did they do that. Also how come Yuzu only has 222 pages here when he is like the most famous skater ever? :confused:
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Hi and welcome to the fan thread! There will be an announcement by December 3rd about whether or not Yuzu will compete at the GPF.

The length of this fan thread is for the 2018-19 Season only! If you go to the first page of this thread, https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?74832-Yuzuru-Hanyu-2018-2019 you will see that Yuzu's fan fest is divided into each Season. He is so popular that the thread needed to be divided so as not to strain the server.
 
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Xhesikokale said:
Hello do we have any confirmation now if King Yuzu will compete on the finals? I saw a post from CBC adding Keegan on the final list of men competing for the finals. So i'm a little confuse why did they do that. Also how come Yuzu only has 222 pages here when he is like the most famous skater ever? :confused:
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Hi :)

I've just seen the tweet by CBC and I have to say I was very offended. Maybe they tried to make joke, maybe they didn't know the situation about Yuzuru since they are "Olympic Channel", but it was wrong timing and not funny at all to me.

As Interspectator says, the deadline is Dec. 3 so it is also possible that they will announce Yuzuru's participation or withdrawal before Dec.3, we'll see.
 
yude said:
Hi :)

I've just seen the tweet by CBC and I have to say I was very offended. Maybe they tried to make joke, maybe they didn't know the situation about Yuzuru since they are "Olympic Channel", but it was wrong timing and not funny at all to me.

As Interspectator says, the deadline is Dec. 3 so it is also possible that they will announce Yuzuru's participation or withdrawal before Dec.3, we'll see.
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CBC was being CBC and mentioning the only Canadian who was 1st alternate to GPF. I don't think they were consciously already expecting Yuzuru to WD and Keegan to be in but their need to be nationalistic contrasted too much with the other disciplines. They should have done so for all disciplines, if they didn't want to be called out.
 
thanks @yude for the translation
Hopefully yuzu and team brian have things thought out.
Seeing Yuzu and Jun on GPF woukd be a dream.
 
xeyra said:
CBC was being CBC and mentioning the only Canadian who was 1st alternate to GPF. I don't think they were consciously already expecting Yuzuru to WD and Keegan to be in but their need to be nationalistic contrasted too much with the other disciplines. They should have done so for all disciplines, if they didn't want to be called out.
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Aye, it's common on CBC to expand result tables with Canadian starters, who did not finish in the top group. But this is something that sportscasts all over the world do, so nothing wrong with that. It just looked veeery unfortunate in this specific case for multiple reasons (pre-burying Yuzu... ignoring alternates of other disciplines....)

What bothers me most in CBC coverages are those distracting textboxes which cover half of the picture.
I was really annoyed at Worlds 2017, when (I think it was Nathan or Boyang) skated his program and suddenly a huge infobox popped up :palmf:
"Patrick Chan in 15 minutes"
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Why can you not wait till the end of the performance or show it after the K&C? THAT was really disrespectful imo. It sounded like: Okay, you can skip this one and come back later...
 
My take on the recent CBC discussion is that they are nice to Yuzu in terms of commentary, which is what really matters. I don't want to bash Canada in anyway because Canada is Yuzu's 2nd home..and I know Canadians also love Yuzu (most fs fans at least).

But I was offended because he hasn't withdrawn yet. I also felt that many commentators and reporters around the world are waiting for him to retire soon or expecting him to, but Yuzu is Yuzu. He will retire when he wants to not when it is "normal" to retire.
 
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