#Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara

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i was gonna be a hater today and bitch about the scoring but then i rewatched jun and rikuryu and haein's performances and i remembered that, despite certain institution's best efforts to ruin this sport, there are still good, beautiful, sincere things to appreciate 🥹

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2024 World Figure Skating Championships Results

Women Gold: Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) — 222.96 Silver: Isabeau Levito (USA) — 212.16 Bronze: Kim Chae-Yeon (KOR) -- 203.59

Men Gold: Ilia Malinin (USA) — 333.76 Silver: Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) -- 309.65 Bronze: Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) -- 284.39

Pairs Gold: Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps (CAN) — 221.56 Silver: Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) -- 217.88 Bronze: Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin (GER) -- 210.40

Ice Dance Gold: Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) — 222.20 Silver: Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) -- 219.68 Bronze: Charlène Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA) -- 216.52

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Team Japan: 2022 Beijing Olympic Figure Skating Team Event Silver Medalists

Congratulations to Kaori Sakamoto, Wakaba Higuchi, Yuma Kagiyama, Shoma Uno (absent), Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara, Misato Komatsubara, and Tim Koleto! 🥈

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2022 Olympic teams finally got their medals! Congrats Teams USA and Japan!

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Beijing 2022 Silver Medal winning team presentation @ NHK 2024

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Some gala pictures from the GPF 2024 💜

My photos (Follow me on @jennibeultimate on Instagram for more picstures if you want to)

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AND THEY PULLED IT OUT!!!

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team japan are officially olympic silver medallists 🥈🩶

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How to take good winner's photos - A guide by your 2024 Junior Grand Prix Women's medallists.

Step one: Get rid of the mini Christmas trees you have been gifted and acquire some flags.

Step two: Pose with said flags.

Step three: Descend upon the photographers to discuss next steps.

Step four: More poses!

Step five (optional but encouraged): Stick around and make the senior pairs silver medallists do silly poses too!

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rikuryu are not just the future of pairs skating, they are the present. they have undeniable charisma and star power, and they plan to compete for two more olympic cycles. so long as rikuryu keep placing in the top two at worlds, japanese pairs will have three spots, despite having only one senior pair in the entire country. if jsf had any sense, they'd be developing and investing in their domestic pairs field

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Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara: Paint It Black » 2024 Skate America

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kaori coming through with the selfies!

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Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara skating to a version of Dare You to Move for their short program at the 2024 Four Continents and 2024 Worlds.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

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Japanese National Championships Preview

Men - My Predicted Top 6 (in no particular order)

Kao Miura—He's had a lot of ups and downs this season, and he's also been dealing with his leg injury. If he puts everything together, he could finally make the podium here and make the World's team again. He is my fav so I really hope he does well here. #FuecocoTrioForever.

Kazuki Tomono - He's had a little trouble with consistency with his quads, but I really like his programs and he has good performance skills. I do think Kao, Shun, Sota, and Yuma will be fighting for the podium spots. Kazuki and Koshiro will be rounding out the top 6.

Koshiro Shimada - He's had a little trouble with the 3A this season and he's been stepping out of his combo, but he is a skilled performer and made a pretty big improvement from his first grind prix to his second.

Shun Sato - I'm still so happy that he made the podium at the Grand Prix Final. If he does well here I think it's pretty safe to say that he will finally make the World's team. He's been pretty solid all season except for the 4F in the free, so I'm nervous to see if he'll be able to put it down. #FuecocoTrioForever.

Sota Yamamoto - I really do think it's going to be a battle between him and Kao to see who will get bronze and who will get 4th in this competition. Last year Sota got 3rd but Kao got the World's spot because he went to the GPF, but this year neither of them went so we'll see what happens. I love both Sota and Kao so I am a little conflicted.

Yuma Kagiyama - He is truly the one to beat here. I just hope his 4S will be okay because it is such a good jump for him and I was surprised he made mistakes on it in both the short and free at the GPF. I hope we see a performance very similar to what we saw at the NHK Trophy. #FuecocoTrioForver.

Women - My Predicted Top 6 (in no particular order)

Hana Yoshida - The competition between the Japanese women is so tight I honestly don’t know what’s going to happen. Hana has been pretty consistent this season and has been putting the 3A in the free with various degrees of success. Both of her programs are a bit weird but she does weird well and she’s super cute.

Kaori Sakamoto - Didn’t have the skate she wanted at the GPF, mainly due to the fall on her combo in the short. I hope she doesn’t backload the combo again it makes me so nervous. If she pulls out two solid routines I have no doubt she’ll make it to the top of the podium.

Mao Shimada - I love seeing her compete against the seniors because it demonstrates just how strong she is. She had a couple of mistakes on her bigger elements at the GPF but her showmanship is great. Defying Gravity was such a great program choice and I think it fits her so well and so looks so happy when she performs it.

Mone Chiba - OUR HIGHEST RANKED JAPANESE WOMAN AT THE GPF!!! She has been so solid on all of her jumps this season. Would love to see her bring out her personality just a smidge more. Her skating skills are excellent and I’m already looking forward to seeing her spiral in the free program because it is gorgeous. I think her and Kaori are the closest to being locked in for the World’s team.

Rinka Watanabe - I like her programs this season so much better than her programs last season. Had a great showing at Skate America but the free program at the Cup of China betrayed her which was so sad because she landed her 3A. I love her so much and I just hope she has a good competition.

Wakaba Higuchi - I need Wakaba to get on this podium because I need her to be on the World’s team. I hope she learned her lesson from the GPF and doesn’t backload the combo in the short because it isn’t worth it. I hope she fully rotates her 3Lz3T again!

Pairs - My Predicted Top 3 (in no particular order)

Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara - They’re obviously winning this thing so I want to see a stellar performance since the pressure is low.

Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda - I haven’t seen them skate this season but I looked at their stats and they’ve scored better than Yuzuki and Tristin so yeah.

Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi - I actually really liked this team and was happy to see them get a second assignment after their performance at the NHK. I really like their short program and the free was nice too. They really struggled with the short at Finlandia so hopefully they can put down two clean programs.

Ice Dance - My Predicted Top 3 (in no particular order)

Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda - I also have not seen them compete this season but based on stats I think they’re gonna land ahead of Kuneshita and Alec.

Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama - They were a bit slow at NHK but they served face so it’s okay. Not a big of their free program because Fur Elise is such a slow song and they were skating so slow so the whole thing was very slow idk.

Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita - I think they’re the favs to win here since they scored higher than Azusa and Shingo at NHK. They had good edge quality and they were acting their faces off. I really liked their Romeo and Juliet free program.

I know JNats can be a bit hard for people to watch because the stream is behind a paywall and the time zone can be rough for a lot of people, but I hope those who want to watch are able. I love JNats so much because the depth of field in Japan is insane. I love pregaming Xmas with JNats, it just feels so right. Happy watching and I hope we all survive this JNats because I am super nervous!