send in the clowns

deactivated blog. find me at mobvla

[hydrosblade]

im gonna close this blog bc i dont really use it and figure skating feels like a chore lately :/

[beautifulstorms]

hanyu’s biggest fan

[resssistance]

MIURA Riku / KIHARA Ryuichi SP at Worlds 2021

[figureskatingcostumes]

Katarina Witt’s short program costume at the 1984 Olympics. I can’t imagine those sleeves are all that aerodynamic, but yes x 1000 at the tiara.

(Source: goodhousekeeping.com)

[sixquadhanyu]

yuzuru hanyu + skating to japanese music

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[rinkrats]

“he is from sendai… he’s donated so much of his prize money - all of his olympic prize money - to disaster relief for the sendai earthquake, all of his autobiography royalties have been donated. he’s been an ambassadorial figure throughout”

[rinkrats]

“dreams come true when you work hard for them”: from training in a public rink in a mall to winning hearts at the olympics

[aces4aces]

WHO added this to Nathan Chen's Wikipedia article I am screaming and crying

[rikakihira-deactivated20221117]

Truths that wake, to perish never

[codename-faelon]

Please, please,

remember that Kamila Valieva is a CHILD. That girl is 15.

The likelihood she had any say in this with who her coaches and federation are is very, very low. Many people caught up in the big doping scandal in the 2010s said they had no clue they were doping. There are reports that athletes get sent these drugs as a packets of powders or capsules and didn't know what they were.

Shes been branded the olympic gold favourite and the greatest of all time, AT 15!!! Thats stressful enough. And now she's lost it and is going to be attacked because of something that likely wasn't in her control.

Blame the adults, eteri tudberidze and team, Russian figure skating federation, the International skating union for letting this go on and infact giving eteri awards. Do not blame the minor.

[figure-skating-memes]

what can he produce? lying in eighth place surely a medal is within his grasp-

[beautifulstorms]

Yuzuru Hanyu, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso || Beijing Olympics 2022

[taerism]

crying because yuzuru is really more than a decade into his senior career and he's still consistently putting in efforts to improve himself, and managing to put up programs that are more meticulous than ever. there's really never going to be anyone like him, he's in a league of his own.

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

man hasn't even skated yet and he's already trending

[youremysputnik]

this absolute madman disappears for months then skips practice to keep his short program secret and says “i haven’t landed my quad axel but i’m going to do it at nationals!!”

[beautifulstorms]

Yuzuru Hanyu, 4A attempt in practice || Japanese Nationals 2021

[raininyourblackeyes]

A bit late but in honor of Yuzuru's birthday, here the step sequences of all his programs this quad so far (can't wait to see Rondo, hopefully soon)