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Raise your hand if you're a Kaorist ✋
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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
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This thread: Women’s free skate press conference #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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Unofficial women qual for #WorldFigure 2023
3: JPN (1+11), USA (3+4), BEL (2), KOR (5+7)
2: GEO (6), AZE (2), GER (2)
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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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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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Practice notes
Uno: 2A, 3Lo, 3A, 4T3T, 4F, 4S, 4Lo, 3A1Eu3F, 3A1Eu3F, 4T(ftdwn), 4T(hangs on)2T, 3A, 3F1Eu3F(dramatic Shoma fall), 3A1Eu3F, 3A, marked jumps in runthru
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Junhwan Cha has withdrawn from #Worlds2022 - after practice, he talked with Brian Orser and they decided it would not be safe for him to skate with his equipment issues
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Ivan Shmuratko UKR
3A, 2A, 2Lz, 3Lo, 3F, 2F2T, 2A - thank you, Ivan Shmuratko
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Camden Pulkinen USA
4T3T, 4T, 3A1Eu3S, 3Lo, 3A, 3F2T, 3Lz - CAMDEN PULKINEN JUST SKATED THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS CAREER, he's finally put it all together at one event, this was incredible
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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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Keegan Messing CAN
4Lz(ur,fall), 4T(fall), 3A, 3Lz3T, 4T(ur,fall), 3A1Eu2S(hangs on), 2F - the quads weren't his friends today; I talked to him two days ago and he has no plans to retire
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Warmup
Uno 2A 3S 3A 4T3T 4F 4S(fall) 4Lo 4S 3A1Eu3F
Kagiyama 3S 2S 4S 4T 4T1Eu3S 1Lo 4Lo 3F3Lo
Tomono 3S 4T 3A1Eu3S 3S(step) 4S 3T 4T3T
Malinin 4S 4T(fall) 4T1Eu3S 4Lz 3F3T 3Lz3Lo
Grassl 3Lz 4Lz(q?) 4F 4Lo(q?)
Zhou 3Lz 3A 4S(ur,fall) 4S(q?) 4T 4Lz(q?) 4S3T 4Lz
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I'm so full of joy that I got to see Kazuki Tomono's brilliant choreo sequence in person
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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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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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#Worlds2022 Men FINAL
G Shoma Uno 312.48
S Yuma Kagiyama 297.60
B Vincent Zhou 277.38
4 Morisi Kvitelashvili 272.03
5 Camden Pulkinen 271.69
6 Kazuki Tomono 269.37
7 Daniel Grassl 266.66
8 Adam Siao Him Fa 266.12
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Waiting for the medals like
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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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