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Their friendship is the best thing to come out of these Olympics

While we were watching the Olympics gala skate a friend was telling me a story about how Yuzu’s kohai were asking him how to do a quad jump and he said you just go around one more time after the third time and I couldn’t help but wonder if this was the level of quality instruction Yuri Katsuki got from Victor “Living Legend, Skating Genius” Nikiforov

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir - FD: Moulin Rouge - Pyeongchang Olympics 2018

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Medalist press conference with Shoma, February 18th

“It’s been a day since I won the silver medal, but my feelings haven’t changed: it still doesn’t feel like I won the silver medal at the Olympics. But I am nonetheless very happy about my second place finish. The season hasn’t ended yet. I’m returning to Japan today, so I would like to start training for Worlds tomorrow or the day after. The new goal I gained from this competition, well, I realised that I am lacking quality in my jumps compared to skaters like Hanyu and Javier, so I would like to work on that heading into Worlds. I haven’t contacted my brother at all, he hasn’t sent anything to me, and even if I see him, I don’t think he’ll say anything special to me. I think my family members are happier that I was able to put my training into action on the Olympic stage than the fact that I won the silver medal, but they haven’t contacted me, which I think is because I [normally] don’t reply anyways (laughs). The performance that stood out for me and moved me the most was Nathan’s free skate. He wasn’t able to skate the way he wished to in the short, so when I heard that he earned such a high score and performed in such a spectacular way, I was really moved: the most moved I felt at these Olympics. (When asked if he was frustrated that he lost to Hanyu) I don’t feel any regret at all from the results of this competition, I think [the fact that I ended below Hanyu] was the result of my true ability. When my abilities become more closer to those of Hanyu’s, I would like to become a skater who is on the same level as him as soon as possible. This competition made me re-realize that my skills are still far behind from Hanyu’s. (When asked who he wants to put the silver medal on and how he will preserve the medal) If there’s people who want to put it on then they can put it on all they want (laughs). If there’s people who want to touch it, they can just go ahead and touch it. As for the preservation, I’m just going to hand it to my family and let them figure it out.”

The performance that stood out for me and moved me the most was Nathan’s free skate. He wasn’t able to skate the way he wished to in the short, so when I heard that he earned such a high score and performed in such a spectacular way, I was really moved: the most moved I felt at these Olympics.

I’M FINE. THIS IS FINE. I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING !!!!!!

Yuzuru Hanyu - Javier Fernandez - Shoma Uno aka d o r k s

adam rippon is a gift to this world

MIRAI:

AMERICA:

Why do Tara Lapinski and Johnny Weir look like they’re the announcing the 76th Hunger Games?

I mean

The guy next to them is even looking on in horror as if they’re describing a grisly child murder instead of figure skating.

I’m so here for this.

I can’t believe Adam Rippon murdered every straight athlete and that homophobic reporter in a single interview

NBC Olympics viewership is down 17% - Business Insider

AKA “It’s not our shitty, tape-delayed, reality-show style coverage, or our myopic and draconian social media policies - it’s those damn millennials and their snapchats!”

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In contrast, the CBC network in Canada probably just got it’s highest Olympic ratings ever.

They streamed or broadcast basically every single event, and in order to watch you just needed to a) be in Canada and b) have the internet or a tv. None of this “cable subscription to access streams” stuff. Made it super easy to watch.

And everything was broadcast live, even the obscure sports. They might not have commentary, but they had multiple camera angles.

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Same here in the UK with the BBC coverage. I mean, sometimes it was a bit annoying hopping from BBC1 to 2 to 4 to red button(s) to online if you wanted to stick with a particular event, but gosh darn it if you really WANTED to follow the entirity of the men’s handball qualifiers to the exclusion of all else you could do it. Live. At 3am.

(and there’d also be a significantly non-zero chance of Your Favoured Sport hitting the ‘prime’ exposure of BBC1 at least once anyway)

I mean, the BBC learned how to do this in 2012, and by that metric the coverage this year was adequate-to-comprehensive, partly because of the foreign broadcasting rights and partly because, yes, home games are an ENTIRELY different kettle of fish, and the entirity of the UK kinda collectively lost its mind because there were 40+ *streams* in addition to the beeb basically turning all of its channels into all-Olympics, ALL THE TIME and also the outdoor broadcast screens essentially everywhere meaning that you could legit camp out in Hyde Park for days at a time… anyway, my point: it’s…not that hard to understand that we have a growing a global multimedia exchange culture, is it?

I mean, it’s happening. Buckle up, olds (white men in power), we’re going to the future, and you’re getting left behind.

(having been in Toronto during the Beijing games, and having experienced both Canadian & US broadcasting all I can do is commiserate with those of you stuck with NBC because what the fuck EVEN.

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Matt Smith holding the Olympic Torch in Cardiff (May 26th)