2. Image of weibo post by Allen Han Cong translated into english:
Hello everyone, I am sorry to announce today with regret: I have decided to withdraw from all competitions in the Milan cycle. After the Beijing Winter Olympics, after a year and a half of rehabilitation, my current recovery is not enough to support my return to the competition. In the future, I will continue to fight for the figure skating career with other identities, and I also hope that Xiao Sui can bravely pursue her dream. We will always be the most solid partners on the road of figure skating!
3. Image of weibo post by Guile隋文静 replying to Allen韩聪:
4. Image of weibo post by Guile Sui Wenjing replying to Allen Han Cong translated into english:
I hope that brother can recover soon. I can empathize with brother Cong's injury troubles the most. Although it is a pity, I understand and support Brother Cong's choice. No matter when and where, we will always be each other's cheerleaders and little sun. Figure skating is always moving forward, we are always on the road!
watched the skate america pairs free skate and tbh my main takeaway is that sui/han do not get enough credit for being as goated as they are. put more respect on their fucking names.
I know I normally post about f1 but I’m also a figure skating stan…… so here are some of my more controversial options
• Pairs generally isn’t all the interesting to me half the time it just feels like they’re rushing from element to element so while technically impressive the programs just fall kind of flat
• I really love Isabeau’s skating if she can just fix her jumps she would have the whole package. Her twizzles are just magnificent
• Ilia is one my favorite skaters, he’s a lot of fun and just always seems so eager and excited
• Yuzuru didn’t deserve to medal at the Olympics he skated wonderfully but he made too many major mistakes. Between the pop in the short and two falls in the free it just wasn’t Olympic medal material
• Kaori deserved silver over Trusova, she had two gorgeous clean programs and Sasha fell in the short and even though she landed five quads most of them weren’t very good and deserved negative GOE if not downgrades(actually she deserved gold but I won’t get into that)
• Skate Can needs to get there shit together pretty much all of their men are incredibly inconsistent and the only one who really isn’t (Keegan) is retiring
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han's free program costumes at the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, 2022 Olympics and 2021 Skate Canada. They skated to Bridge Over Troubled Water.
now generally pairs skaters having super huge height differences is all well and good. you know, the physics of it all etc, but let's Talk about how our friends only super slam pair only quad pair six time four continents champions sui/han are like. basically the same size all things considered
I'm limiting this to one a skater because otherwise we will be here forever. These are also probably not in order. There's a recency bias to this because although I've been a skating fan all my life, naturally more recent things come to mind!
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Michelle Kwan- Lyra Angelica
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Satoko Miyahara- The Planets
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Nathan Chen- Phillip Glass Selections
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Meryl Davis and Charlie White- Scheherazade
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Wakaba Higuchi- Skyfall
edit: you get this one as well because I couldn't decide between it and Meryl and Charlie:
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Wenjing Sui and Cong Han- Bridge Over Troubled Water