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“During the practice sessions my coaches told me over and over again that I could do it, win a medal or even reach for the gold. It’s maybe the most valueable experience of my career.”
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#MiuraKihara 🇯🇵 Wow, what a beautiful skate by the World 🥈👏🏻
Simply stunning! 78.25 👏🏻 New PB!
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#MiuraKihara 🇯🇵 78.25: “We had a few mistakes, but the score was better than what we expected. Our goal had been just to skate as good as we did in practice. We tried improving the lift and the twist after Skate Canada.”
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#YelimKim 🇰🇷 #김예림 72.22: “I am so happy about my clean program today. It was a great joy to perform in Japan! I am trying not to think about the final and just focus on my performance!”
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#MuramotoTakahashi 🇯🇵 75.10 - great score after a very energetic performance. Huge improvement from Skate America! 👏🏻
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#MuramotoTakahashi 🇯🇵 75.10 “The lift didn't work out during six-minute-training and I was worried about that, but we could pull it off during the performance.”
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“For the Free Skate we want to forget about today, change our mindset and put a lot of care into the details of our elements.
We worked on many things and changed some elements, we want to reach a high score and fight.”
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“Competiton is the best practice, as our coach told us. You learn when to be agressive and when to save energy, so the previous competiton helped!”
#MuramotoTakahashi 🇯🇵
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Wow! What a great skate by #SotaYamamoto 🇯🇵 #山本草太 💪🏻👏🏻 96.49 - PB! Did you expect this? Congratulations 🥳
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#KazukiTomono 🇯🇵 #友野一希 85.07 - jump-wise not on top of his game today, but what a performer! 🤩🥳
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Warm hug for #ShomaUno 🇯🇵 #宇野昌磨 from coach #StéphaneLambiel after his SP, where he unfortunatly missed his combination but did everything else well. 👏🏻 - 91.66
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Mixed zone highlights from our leader - #SotaYamamoto 🇯🇵 #山本草太 96.49:
“This morning I messed up the 4S during training, but during the warm-up, I prepared (for the program) and succeeded. I feel I made some progress.
I was very nervous for a long time, but i gave it all.
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#ShomaUno 🇯🇵 #宇野昌磨 91.66 after his performance:
“Apart from the toeloop, I think the program was good. I jumped the toeloop as always and only messed up the landing. I'm asking myself "why", but now I know what to work on.”
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#MiuraKihara 🇯🇵 - 216.16 👏🏻 Another very, very special performance by the Worlds 🥈! A very convincing victory at #NHKTrophy and we all can’t wait to see you in Torino 🇮🇹! 🤩
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Bruno Marcotte after #MiuraKihara 🇯🇵 victory at #NHKTrophy:
“I think it's their working habits and their mindset. They've overcome an injury, they trust each other, trusted me. They want to be the best versions of themselves.”
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#MiuraKihara 🇯🇵 - 216.16 about their special chemistry:
He: “I think one thing I will mention is that we are very similar as skaters.
We don’t force ourselves too much. We both like speed on the ice.
On a personal level we are very balanced and we compliment each other well.”
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#KaoriSakamoto 🇯🇵 #坂本花織 - 201.87 - Does this expression say: “what happend to my signature 3Lo?” 😬 Amazing performance still by the World Champion who secures at least a 🥈and secures a spot in the #GPFinal 🇮🇹
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#KaoriSakamoto 🇯🇵 #坂本花織 after taking. 🥈at #NHKTrophy in the mixed zone:
“I feel that I'm still far away from last years condition. I felt that when I have no confidence, it has a big impact on my skating.
I was nervous, but it was better than yesterday.”
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🥇#YelimKim 🇰🇷 #김예림 204.49: “I still can’t believe I achieved first place and I am so, so happy today! After the SP I tried thinking that nothing was different regarding skating last. I tried doing just like practice.”
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#OriharaPirinen 🇫🇮 168.45 are thrilled about their very first #GPFigure performance:”It was amazing! No other word for that. We felt at home here,as Yuka is Japanese.” Next week they will skate at home again at the GP Finland. They were euqually thrilled for both GP assignments.
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#MuramotoTakahashi 🇯🇵 178.78 - technically not as perfect as yesterday but they surely touched every ❤️ in the arena today! 👏🏻
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#MuramotoTakahashi 🇯🇵 about their performance at #NHKTrophy in mixed zone:
M: “In front of the Japanese audience, we got into the character.”
T: “In the second half I felt (the exhaustion) in my legs, so I wasn't able to put a lot of expressions into my program.”
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On next goals:
T: “In the RD we almost showed everything we wanted to achieve, we only need to brush up some small details. For the free program, we need to work on our stamina to make it safe to the end.”
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