Center of the universe?
Most people in the US have a vague notion of figure skating happening at the Olympics or went to an ice show once upon a time. I can say with complete assurance I am the only person at my place of employment, including 100s of students, who has a clue who Nathan Chen might be. Most of the country doesn't have an ice rink where skaters can train and those in the NE are focused on ice hockey which is much more well known.
I'll be charitable and assume you read my post in haste, or in exhaustion, or with wine, or some other factor, to produce this frankly baffling response.
Unless I am very not-sober, or very tired, if I mean the United States I will always correctly use the capitalised US.
In this case, as others noted, I was using a collective "us". For
us, here, on this forum, figure skating is the centre of the universe. I am quite well aware that it is barely on the radar in the US.
At any rate, my question stands. Perhaps a comparison might be the Australian Open. It went ahead, but it was not a popular event with the general public, and many special exemptions were needed from government for it to do so. Would GPF be considered on that scale by the Japanese government? Or is it smaller, smaller and insignificant enough that it will not go ahead? I am aware that skating is bigger in Japan than nearly anywhere else, but that doesn't necessarily make it big
enough.
And then of course there is the moral question - if the border is closed to everyone else, why should skating be the exception? Especially given the previously poor track record of some individuals with following protocol. As Jackie wisely pointed out on Twitter this morning, if by some miracle GPF
does go ahead as planned, adhering strictly to the bubble protocols will be more important than ever.
to Japan for protecting it's citizens. 
