Not true. Canada also emptied out and only a couple of skaters were left by the time Keegan skated - Gogo and the two women. All of the pairs teams except ConMac cleard out after the Women’s SP, IIRC, and most of the dance teams were out by the 2nd flight of men.
Since the comp is in Japan and is supposed to favor them a bit, I don’t have a problem. This time, the singles Skaters from Japan underperformed in the short which was a surprise!
No, it's really not. I did not get enough sleep last night and now I have to pretend I want to be at work for the next 8.25 hours until I can log off and crawl into bed for a proper good 7 hrs of sleep before I wake up to watch Day 2, lol.
Am biased when it's between him an Lambiel, sorry. As on fire as he was Lambiel is well.. Lambiel
Ah I see, but it is still part of the bending toward singles design to have the lower rank dance and pairs not suffer much in comparison to the top ones.
No this is TV Asahi.
Is that another "network" in Japan? Do they bid on the rights to figure skating in Japan the way they do in other countries? It's very good work.
Yes, TV Asahi has been the host/sponsor network for this comp. since the first WTT in 2009 - this is their WTT event page:
usfigureskatingfanzone.com
The baby Koreans, what a discovery! Can't wait for their full senior debut next year.
Go-Chan clip! https://twitter.com/gochan_V/status/1646438527499145217
- Schizas has a clip in her stories: https://www.instagram.com/stories/maddieschizas/3079955816891487790/
I see good Maddie showed up today. I'm so happy for her that this is how she's going to end the season. I NEED SARAH'S BOW. I NEED IT NOW. RIGHT NOW. First place, good for her! That's the Schizas we all got excited about when she first debuted! 
. Even with the mistakes, still a lovely skater.
I just wish she enjoyed her beautiful skating more, the Korean girls just look so tired 
I don't want Kaori to turn her 2A into a 3A, you shouldn't mess with perfection. As I've said before, I'd rather watch 1000 Kaori 2As over Malinin's 4A. And if I wasn't such a huge Kaori fan, I'd say she should be 4th at best, but as that would be tantamount to blasphemy, I'm perfectly happy with her being in second.
They are too cute 
Kaori is ADORABLE of course.
LOVED Ilia’s performance -maybe his mom should show up more often (kidding). Seriously though - maybe skating in the Stars on Ice in Japan and watching Hanyu up close has had an effect. Even the jump from US Nationals to this is very apparent.
Late to this party but I’ve mentioned before- Lindemann literally could’ve won the short with a non-biased panel.. he was that good. the 4T+3T was as good as you’ll ever see, and he had a complete program with strong spins and footwork. Plushenko was phoning in the arm-flailing by then and Joubert was emulating Yagudin with toe-pick choreo and bad spins. Lambiel barely held on to the final group after his short. Lindemann didn’t give enough away in the free skate, IMO, to have any reason to be off the podium.
) skating fan - I can't stay up all night, anymore. So I watched the Peacock replay this morning, staying unspoiled. There were some great performances, but I was a little surprised to see just Jason with Ilia and his mom in the Kiss & Cry. It's not a good look, y'all. I hope someone with Team USA encourages a little more team spirit going forward - it shouldn't be all up to Jason.
this is late but I’m pretty sure that’s her actual hair - I noticed in the team Korea video the ends of her hair are bleached.
The rest of the team was there earlier in the evening, but as it got later the Pairs & Ice Dance couples left.I'm a bad (and old
This banner is being sold at the arena (along with Shoma & Daisuke T. banners) - it can been seen on display in Ari Zakarian's IG story clip 18 hours ago: https://www.instagram.com/stories/arizakarian/3079865893468131884/
Not sure if someone pointed it out, but I think that was her blond tipped hair wrapped in a bun?
featured.japan-forward.com
Day 2 of competition begins Friday at 16:00 in Tokyo/3 am Eastern/midnight Pacific time with the Pairs SP - someone please create a thread beforehand, thanks!“I’m really proud of my team, what a way to kick off the event,” U.S. captain Jason Brown said. “There’s nothing like competing in Japan and doing it as a team is extra special.” [...]
“I heard (my teammates’ [note by me: Jason must have been LOUD
South Korea captain Cha Jun-hwan, coming off his second-place finish in the worlds at Saitama Super Arena, was delighted at his team’s performance in the country’s debut at the event.
“We talked about how it’s our first time, so let’s really enjoy and skate really happily,” said the 21-year-old, who finished second in the men’s short program behind Malinin. “Today we really nailed that goal, so I’m super proud of them.”
Loving the no commentary feed.
Checks time/date of free dance.
