Turkish coffee supremacist

Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi, The Mask || 2020 NHK Trophy

• Satoko Miyahara - arabesque 
• Yuna Kim - one-handed Biellmann 
• Mao Asada - cross-grab one-handed Biellmann to Kerrigan
• Carolina Kostner - cross-grab catchfoot
• Adelina Sotnikova - Charlotte
• Evgenia Medvedeva - skid 
• Shizuka Arakawa - Y-shaped 
• Elene Gedevanishvili - I-shaped 
• Sasha Cohen - I-shaped to fan 

Daisuke Takahashi performs his short program to “The Sheltering Sky” at the 2018 Japanese National Championships, scoring 88.52 for second place. Takahashi, an Olympic bronze medalist, World Champion, and 5-time Japanese National Champion, announced his return to competition in 2018 after a 5-year retirement.

Nobunari Oda (JPN) performs a clean free skate to “YMCA” at 2018 Japan Open, scoring 176.95 points to place 2nd in the men’s segment and helping Team Japan win overall with 621.91 points. He landed 4T3T, 3A1Eu3S, 3A, 3Lz, 3Lo, 3F3T, 2A in his free program. Oda retired from competitive skating in December 2013.

Shizuka Arakawa, Takeshi Honda, and Yamato Tamura perform “You’ll Be OK” at 2018 Friends on Ice to welcome Daisuke Takahashi back to competition

Men’s Top 10 Historic Personal Bests (before 2018-2019)

• Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) 330.43 (2015 Grand Prix Final)
• Nathan Chen (USA) 321.40 (2018 World Championships)
• Shoma Uno (JPN) 319.84 (2017 CS Lombardia Trophy)
• Javier Fernandez (ESP) 314.93 (2016 World Championships)
• Boyang Jin (CHN) 303.58 (2017 World Championships)
• Patrick Chan (CAN) 295.27 (2013 GP Trophee Eric Bompard)
• Denis Ten (KAZ) 289.46 (2015 Four Continents Championships)
• Tatsuki Machida (JPN) 282.26 (2014 World Championships)
• Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) 282.00 (2017 Grand Prix Final)
• Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) 276.72 (2012 World Team Trophy)

Daisuke Takahashi practicing his new programs, 7.28.2018 (x)

Chinese Olympic Medalists in Figure Skating, 1994-2018

Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte || 2018 World Championships SD

Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres, The Sound of Silence || 2018 World Championships

Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres (FRA) react to winning the bronze medal at the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships with a total score of 218.36. This is their first World medal and France’s first medal in the pairs discipline since 2000.

happy birthday to the king of step sequences, daisuke takahashi! (3.16.1986)

Japanese Olympic Medalists in Men’s Figure Skating, 2010 → 2018

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GOLD - Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) SILVER - Shoma Uno (JPN) BRONZE - Javier Fernandez (ESP)