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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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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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Raise your hand if you're a Kaorist ✋
#Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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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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#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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Official ILIAAAA twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Murakami/Moriguchi’s sbs3S3T2A - the most difficult pair sbs ever done #JGPFigure
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One of my favorite short programs of the season
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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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Seriously though, in any other circumstance, this 3Lz3A would’ve been the coolest new thing in the program twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Muramoto/Takahashi Takahashi
2022-23 Phantom 2006-07 Phantom
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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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The World Championships for this Olympic cycle are set!
2023: Saitama, Japan 🇯🇵
2024: Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
2025: Boston, United States 🇺🇸
2026: Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#WorldFigure twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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This thread: Men’s SP press conference #SkateAmerica
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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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Full text from the Court of Arbitration for Sport - the World Anti-Doping Agency is requesting a 4-year period of ineligibility for Kamila Valieva starting 25 December 2021, including disqualification of all results during that period.
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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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