World Figure Skating Championships are canceled.

[mantis49]

I am seriously bummed, but I understand.

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/03/11/figure-skating-world-championships-cancellation-nathan-chen/

I did not realize it until I checked out what my DVR recorded. I have series recordings set for NBCSN for figure skating competitions. It replayed the US Championship in SC from about 3 months ago.

[KitSileya]

1. Yeah, the message came a few weeks ago.

So sad, I was hoping to see (on screen, not in person) Yuzu skating Chopin and Seimei again. I'm a huge fan. However, that makes it more likely he'll be at next year's WC in Stockholm, for which I do intend to buy tickets. Yuzu, Jason, Jun, Rika, Shoma, Eunsoo, Sui/Han, Peng/Jin - hopefully they'll all be there.

[MagickMuffin]

2. You left out Nathan Chen

I love watching him skate as well as Yuzu.

[KitSileya]

3. I did leave him out, because I am not looking forward to seeing his empty programs

that'll be overscored due to his passport. If the competition had been at the beginning of the season, sure I'd like to watch him, because at least then he has some choreo instead of just using the whole rink to set up his jumps with no transitions, but at the end of the season he's jettisoned everything that makes his programs interesting just to ensure he lands his jumps.

In other words, I get angry when I think of the waste of talent Nathan Chen shows - he himself said to watch ice dance if we wanted artistry, but f&%k that. He could have improved, but why should he? He gets 95+ PCS without getting better, in fact, when deteriorating, just because he can land his jumps. And he can land his jumps so consistently because he doesn't have entries into or steps out of his jumps - that should cap his GOEs to max +2, but the judges are using politics instead of fairness. For crying out loud, thanks to the jumps of Nathan Chen and Alexander Samarin and others, newcomers to figure skating think that skaters are *supposed* to have stiff knees in landings.