Japanese figure skating 2019-20 season news & updates

[denise3lz]

Rika Kihira revealed today that she works with Brian Orser as her second coach. Hamada remains her main coach.

English article about it.

Figure skating: Rika Kihira to add Yuzuru Hanyu's coach Brian Orser - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese figure skater Rika Kihira said Saturday she will augment her coaching team with Canadian Brian Orser, who has coached her co

mainichi.jp

 

[AxelAnnie]

Sheesh I never thought that Mai could be suffering from anorexia I just assumed it was the illness she had suffered before. I did see that
photo of her in the Kimono I believe she was celebrating a Birthday, and she was very, very thin.

She doesn't have anorexia

 

[Frau Muller]

She doesn't have anorexia

She’s just “Team Tutberidze Fit”!

 

[AxelAnnie]

She’s just “Team Tutberidze Fit”!

Mai? No she has something really bad.

 

[Frau Muller]

Mai? No she has something really bad.

I meant...Mai has the super-thin look that we see in the Team Tutberidze kids...except that Mai is not 12 or 13 and doesn’t have the power. Hope that she gets help.

 

[AxelAnnie]

I meant...Mai has the super-thin look that we see in the Team Tutberidze kids...except that Mai is not 12 or 13 and doesn’t have the power. Hope that she gets help.

Mai has juvenile diabetes and suffers greatly. She also has a bad reaction to the medicine.
She was one of my all-time skaters. IMO she has the most glorious arms and hands.

 

[Sylvia]

This is last season's news thread. If you would like to read the latest GOOD NEWS about Mai Mihara: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...eason-news-updates.107299/page-5#post-5870892