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FS & ballet stan 🩰
⛸️ Kaori, hana, chaeyeon, mao, jia, mone, kosto🥲
Lajoie/Lagha 🌹 Guignard/Fabbri 💖 Lim/Quan

[Jackie Wong @rockerskating]

Three-time Olympic medalist, two-time World champion, and six-time Japanese champion Shoma Uno 宇野昌磨 just announced his retirement from skating

[Sponichi on Ice @SponichiF]

〈世界フィギュア女子フリー〉演技する千葉百音（撮影・長久保　豊）

[Kriszta @bluef0Xxx]

If I hear anyone (especially our "fav" Russians) say that Kaori didn't deserve this win, show them these:

[hailey @delayed3A]

mone scored 143.88 in the fs for 4cc, she scored 132.92 for worlds, u cant tell me one downgraded 3Lo can make an 11 point difference...

[ISU Figure Skating @ISU_Figure]

On top of the world 🌍⛸

Kaori Sakamoto 🇯🇵 leaps to the top of the podium securing her third consecutive #WorldFigure Title 🏆

#FigureSkating

[chloé 🌙 @midorimoonlight]

layback spin 🩵

#MoneChiba #千葉百音

[☁️ @moozuru]

kaori sakamoto's fs to "wild is the wind/feeling good" at the 2024 world championships!! 💖

2A, 3Lz, 3S, 3F+2T, 3F+3T, 2A+3T+2T, 3Lo

sp: 73.29
fs: 149.67 (75.08+74.59)
total: 222.96

#KaoriSakamoto #坂本花織

[Anything GOEs @AnythingGOE]

🇯🇵 Kaori Sakamoto is the first woman to win 3 consecutive World titles since Peggy Fleming in 1968! #WorldFigure #WorldMTL24

[cam @loopcombos]

called clean with +1.26 goe lol

[U.S. Figure Skating @USFigureSkating]

With a renewed joy for figure skating, Alysa Liu has announced her return to the sport.

[Anything GOEs @AnythingGOE]

🇺🇸 Alysa Liu is returning to competitive skating. Liu previously retired after the World Championships in 2022.

https://t.co/WUjp3OEx1Q

[ISU Figure Skating @ISU_Figure]

🇯🇵🚨 Mao Shimada steps up to show why she is the Youth Olympic Games gold medallist, world champion and queen of quadruple toe loops – with a season’s best score of 145.76 in the Free Skating.

Her overall score? A gold medal-winning 218.36! 👏✨🥇

#FigureSkating #WorldJFigure

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[annie @wenjinqsui]

two years since sui/han won the sp at the beijing olympics, breaking the world record that they’d set 14 days prior

[mei 🍊 @_kaocubed_]

tw: abuse (physical and emotional)

A **long** 🧵 regarding Mie Hamada's coaching history and her alleged abusive behavior.

[Christine Brennan @cbrennansports]

New detail from CAS report: Kamila Valieva said the prohibited substance entered her body through the consumption of a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather on chopping board where he crushed his heart medicine. CAS said that “was not corroborated by any concrete evidence.”

[Rick Westhead @rwesthead]

In her new memoir, “Outofshapeworthlessloser,” 28-year-old U.S. figure skater Gracie Gold writes that she was raped at 21 by a fellow skater in a hotel suite where she and her sister held an event after-party.
Five years after her alleged assault was reported to the U.S. Center for Safesport, @GraceEGold has no idea about the status of her complaint. She hasn't heard from the center in three years.
Via @WSJSports.
https://t.co/LPjgKiHyLk

[Christine Brennan @cbrennansports]

New: IOC member Dick Pound tells me re: ROC over CAN for team bronze: “Clearly there has been an error made. It should not require a legal proceeding. The math is not rocket science. An error was made & needs to be corrected asap. The longer it goes on, the worse the ISU looks.”

[Jackie Wong @rockerskating]

ISU’s statement after the Kamila Valieva decision

#Beijing2022
+ Team Event: Gold USA, silver JPN, bronze ROC (Valieva’s team points vacated, no rescore - see below)
+ Individual Event: Valieva’s 4th place DQ’d

+ Euros: Gold Shcherbakova, silver Trusova, bronze Hendrickx