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The legend has retired - thank you, Yuzuru Hanyu 羽生結弦! 😭
Hanyu’s historic accomplishments:
OLY🥇🥇
WC 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
FC 🥇🥈🥈🥈
JPN 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉
GPF 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈
GP 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈
JWC 🥇
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FIRST QUAD AXEL IN HISTORY FOR ILIA MALININ
bit.ly/3xq8LKm #USIntlClassic
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Satoko Miyahara 宮原知子 - one of this generation’s skating legends - has announced her retirement. Thank you, Satoko ❤️
Oly 4th (18)
Worlds 2nd (15), 3rd (18)
4CC 1st (16), 2nd (14,15), 3rd (18)
JPN 1st (15-18), 3rd (13,19,21)
GP 12x medalist, incl GPF 2nd (16,17)
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And lastly, Brian Orser and Jason Brown brought cakes for Junhwan Cha’s 21st birthday #SkateAmerica
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Raise your hand if you're a Kaorist ✋
#Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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There wasn’t a third chair for Camden to sit on, so Shoma went and brought him another chair #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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Wow this might be the best figure skater pitch I’ve ever seen? +5GOE twitter.com/sung_minkim/st…
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I never got to post this - at the front of the #Worlds2022 arena was this exhibition piece. It reenacts Surya Bonaly’s iconic one-foot backflip and the trajectory of her skates #WorldFigure
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To the person who told Kaitlin Hawayek she needs to lose weight, please leave.
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One of my favorite short programs of the season
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Last thought before I sleep: There was something poetic about Kaori Sakamoto skate ending with the words "I am a woman." #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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🇯🇵 Kaori Sakamoto 6th JPN World women champ (Ito, Sato, Arakawa, Ando (2x), Asada (3x), Sakamoto); 1st JPN women World medal since 2018
🇧🇪 Loena Hendrickx 1st BEL World women medalist since time began
🇺🇸 Alysa Liu 1st USA World women medalist since 2016
#Worlds2022 #WorldFigure twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Yuka Sato 佐藤有香 - 1994 World champ and a trailblazer in Japanese skating - skated her last performance today in Stars on Ice
This program from 2000 World Pros is the epitome of Sato's light-as-air skating, effortless power, and attention to space and simplicity. Enjoy
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🇺🇦 Worlds may be over, but keep them in your hearts
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Daisuke Takahashi 高橋大輔 singles
OLY 🥉
WC 🥇🥈🥈
4CC 🥇🥇🥈🥉
JPN 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉
GPF 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉
GP 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
JWC 🥇
with Kana Muramoto 村元哉中 dance
4CC 🥈
GP 🥉
JPN 🥇🥈🥈 twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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The closest quad axel I’ve ever seen twitter.com/Lily628/status…
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Another #WorldFigure ✔️
I’m struck by the joys, the stories, the excitement, and how it greatly exceeded post-Olympic season expectations - every skater should feel so much pride
And the dedication of the fans is amazing - we can’t do this w/o you ❤️
ありがとう ございます!
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#GPFigure Final champs: MEN
07 Stephane Lambiel
08 Jeremy Abbott
09 Evan Lysacek
10 Patrick Chan
11 Patrick Chan
12 Daisuke Takahashi
13 Yuzuru Hanyu
14 Yuzuru Hanyu
15 Yuzuru Hanyu
16 Yuzuru Hanyu
17 Nathan Chen
18 Nathan Chen
19 Nathan Chen
20 COVID
21 COVID
22 Shoma Uno
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Muramoto/Takahashi Takahashi
2022-23 Phantom 2006-07 Phantom
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