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A Wakaba Higuchi video that I couldn’t tweet out when it happened, but enjoy 😭 twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Waiting for the medals like
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Ilia Malinin USA
4A, 4T, 4Lz(ur?fall), 4S, 4Lz(q?hangs on)1Eu3S, 3F3T, 3Lz3A - STARTS WITH A QUAD AXEL AND ENDS WITH A 3Lz3A?!?!
bit.ly/3xq8LKm #USIntlClassic
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Ivan Shmuratko UKR
3A, 2A, 2Lz, 3Lo, 3F, 2F2T, 2A - thank you, Ivan Shmuratko
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Shoma Uno JPN
4Lo, 4S(q?), 4T2T, 3A, 4F, 4T(ur?2ft,turn), 3A1Eu(<<)1F - I guess single flips are the new way to win big titles; it wasn't perfect but he did more than enough to get his first World title
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Also, one of my faves from the original dance era
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Korean champions 2017-2023
2017 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2018 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2019 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2020 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2021 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2022 Junhwan Cha 차준환
2023 Junhwan Cha 차준환 twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Figure skating firsts
3S: Robertson (1952), 4S: Goebel (1998)
3T: Litz (1964), 4T: Browning (1988)
3Lo: Button (1952), 4Lo: Hanyu (2016)
3F: ??, 4F: Uno (2016)
3Lz: Jackson (1962), 4Lz: Mroz (2011)
3A: Taylor (1978), 4A: Malinin (2022) twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Ami Nakai 中井亜美
3A3T, 3Lz, 3A(q?ftdwn), 2A, 3F1Eu3S, 3Lo, 3Lz - HOLY MOLY!
bit.ly/3FSTTaJ #全日本フィギュア
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Shoma Uno JPN
4Lo, 4S(q?), 4T2T, 3A, 4F, 4T(ur?2ft,turn), 3A1Eu(<<)1F
TES 107.71, PCS 95.14, FS 202.85, TOTAL 312.48 into 1st - SHOMAGEDDON
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Mae Berenice Meite gave Loena Hendrickx a birthday cake right after the scores and got the audience to sing Happy Birthday to the new #AngersIDF2022 champ
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The end of a career - after 11 seasons together, 8 World championships, and 2 Olympics, Hubbell/Donohue close out their career with an amazing powerful skate
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Camden Pulkinen USA
4T3T, 4T, 3A1Eu3S, 3Lo, 3A, 3F2T, 3Lz
TES 97.61, PCS 84.58, FS 182.19, TOTAL 271.69 into 1st
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today, i’ll put some sholero panels on my roof
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The queen has found a royal consort twitter.com/Olympics/statu…
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Such an awesome privilege to watch Daisuke Takahashi live - I started covering competitions in person in 2014, so this is my first time seeing him in person
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Before the iconic green costumes, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz won their 6th of 10 Canadian titles with their Riverdance free dance in 1998
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