See, this is how little newbies show their ignorance about skating. It ain't all jumps, and Yuzuru's skating skills, artistry and technique - his unequalled list of accomplishments, check wikip - show that. Malinin us bothing BUT jumps, so we get the world watching him do this.
@anusabot No. Has YOURS ever won backtoback OGMs, 59 medals in major int competitions, a gold super slam, 19 WRs, and the triple crown; sold out a stadium of 35000 livestreamed worldwide by a major company, and been named in the 10 greatest athletes of the past century? And much more? No?
@WNBAPILLED@masqueroarade@MartinaFrammart No, he hasn't. Has Ilia Malinin ever won the Olympic gold medal, achieved a gold super slam, or broken 19 world records? No he hasn't. I suspect that history will value what Hanyu has more.
@ILeontieva31384@SherlinZowo @yuzurufanyus No, I like millions of people have watched Yuzuru Hanyu on and off ice for many years, and we've seen what Ilia Malinin was like at that time. You just want to whitewash what the latter did.
@ILeontieva31384@SherlinZowo @yuzurufanyus Like he simply and sincerely shared his feelings about gays? He was at that time a bit of a nasty piece of goods, has cleaned up (with public relations help) since. If you think he didn't lie, why sneer at a far greater skater and human being anyway?
@ILeontieva31384@SherlinZowo @yuzurufanyus Even to people he has cause to dislike. The minute Malinin said that, everyone who ever met him or watched him KNEW it was a lie (which Malinin was prone to at that time, remember the slur about gays?)
@ILeontieva31384@SherlinZowo @yuzurufanyus People have been watching Yuzuru pretty much constantly since he was sixteen years old. Every expression, every moment, they know him by heart. He is lauded by everyone including peers, press, photographers, opponents, the public as unfailingly gracious and generous /2
@SherlinZowo Yep, he has the 4A. No one disputes that. What he doesn't have is an Olympic individual gold, which is what the public cares about,And by 2030 he'll be passed by. Alysa is the big star now, he is the also-ran.
@SherlinZowo @yuzurufanyus Yuzuru was not pissed - he'd left competition at that point to star at the Tokyo Dome, remember? He knew someone else would do it. And even when he is angry, he never ever shows it. Ilia Malinin flat out LIED to bignote himself, which is what people hate - an egotistical LIAR.
@gentannies The Olympic individual gold is the one thing above all they all crave. He has it, and there is now a good chance neither Yuma nor Ilia ever will. How sour are your grapes?
@SherlinZowo He blew it at the olympics. The ISU can push their agenda but as far as most Americans are concerned, she won and he was a failure. And the rest of the world doesn't care.
@lliab0t @Alex900989@loopcombos He was also several times stalked, and in fact more than once was given bodyguards. And every time "no one seems to have a problem with it" was said.
@lliab0t @Alex900989@loopcombos Whar are you talking about? Patrick, Yuzuru, Shoma, Nathan, all got far more vitriol and for far far longer. The Japanese haters - many of them Dai fans - were vicious beyond belief to a 17-18 year old Yuzu, with open booing at nationals and death wishes/threats/2
@JayYoung76@masqueroarade @HANYUlSM And ESPN n 2024 this century's 10th greatest Olympian. Oh and there's his 19 world records next to Nathan's... 9. And that's just the start. Nathan is... well, even his own country has forgotten.
@JayYoung76@masqueroarade @HANYUlSM Wguch I guess is why the Olympics themselves have been calling Yuzuru the GOAT all the way through this year. And at the time Chen was getting his team medal in 2022, AIPS - the premier world journalists - voted Yuzuru 6th in the most important athletes in the last 100 years. /2
yuma kagiyama is such a strange skater because you watch him & you’re like he’s the greatest skater of all time and then you realize he’s only 22 and this isn’t even his final form