#coc 2014

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Worst men's free skates for me personally to watch

3. Jun Hwan Cha: Worlds 2019

2. Shoma Uno: Internationaux de France 2019

1. Yuzuru Hanyu: Cup of China 2014

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Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron, Piano Concerto No. 23 | 2014 Cup Of China

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Yuzuru Hanyu + Jump with highest GOE

“Jumps like that...possibly are dropped from heaven.” -- Kurt Browning

[yuzuland]

Yuzuru Hanyu 2014-15 Season

Cup of China (7-9 Nov 2014)

cr: later (when i find them...sorry!)

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Xiaoyu Yu & Yang Jin, Humility and Love || Cup of China 2014 (x)

[magicaleggplant]

i got a nice message from mebeingtypicalme a couple days ago, and i thought i'd publish it because it makes some good points.

I agree with everything you’ve said about the COC injuries! I’m only a high school student, but I’m in an athletic training & sports injury internship class this year and I’ve helped the school athletic trainers a lot. It’s so frustrating to see that there were some football players missing half of their senior year season because of a concussion, but it’s necessary so that they don’t get a second concussion. It’s terrible to take someone out of the sport they love, but at a high school the athletic trainers have the authority to tell the athlete, their parents, and the coaches that they absolutely cannot participate until their concussion is healed completely- typically if they get a concussion they’re out of practice and play for 3-4 weeks, or until they pass the concussion test on the computer. What the ISU needs is an ISU medical professional, a physician or athletic trainer, who is unbiased toward one country or another and can give emergency treatment and analysis to conclude how severe an injury is and determine if the skater is fit to be allowed to compete. There is absolutely no way that Yuzuru Hanyu or Han Yan should have been allowed to compete, and the ISU should require the computerized concussion impact test or something similar to be passed before the skater is allowed to compete again. What is it going to take for the ISU injury policies to change- a skater getting a second concussion after the first and dying of second impact syndrome?

it's good that high schools recognize the severity of head injuries and we've seen that great strides have been made in other professional sports, too. the ISU is tragically and dangerously behind the times. severe accidents have happened before yuzuru and han but this might be the highest-profile case recently and it was already horrific; it would be absolutely appalling if it takes an accident even WORSE than this to make things finally change. reminder that many elite skaters are MINORS - skaters' ages skew very young and that only makes it even more essential to protect their health, even though it should apply to athletes of any age.

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Sunao Noto Photography || COC 2014

[magicaleggplant]

"I think the lesson to be learned here is that it is the responsibility of all parties concerned to always have the best interests and safety of skaters at heart at all times. Allison summed it up best when she told me that the answer is to “set parameters and don’t allow this to happen again - EVER! Traumatic head injuries need to be taken seriously. No one should say to a skater, ‘It’s going to hurt more tomorrow.’ Let’s pray there is a tomorrow and do everything in our power to make sure there is.” Let us take the events of yesterday and collectively learn something here… and remain incensed to use our voices to really talk about the issues facing figure skating… whether they be bullying, sketchy judging or safety. What happened was not right and not okay but should well serve as a lesson and a definitive moment in the ISU creating and enforcing clear guidelines about skater safety and intervention. The ISU has put the sport in such a state by creating the IJS judging system that fans have been reduced to watching 3 AM internet streams in order to support it… and when it takes a judging scandal or bloodied, injured skaters for the sport to gain media attention, there’s something fundamentally wrong going on."