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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/figure-skating-japan-s/1555002.html http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/cm/main?d=20141228-00000077-dal-spo&s=lost_points&o=desc&p=10&t=t http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20141229-00000001-wordleafs-spo&p=2 I'm just really really shocked to hear this news today on December 28 !!!! 2014's World silver medalist Tatsuki Machida has announced that he has decided to retire from his competitive skating after he was qualified for Worlds team. so he handed his worlds position to Mura . Machida said he is going to Waseda graduate University to study sports science and wants to get a PHD degree to be a researcher for it . He sounded like he was already thinking about his future after retiring from his skating life in last season. My impression of him is very intelligent and often calmly analyzing things and is a very hard worker. He was secretly studying hard for this since last season including  during the

2014 Grand Prix series figure skating competitions have started since October 23 , and we have watched Skate America and Skate Canada and Cup of China on NBC channel. It was so nice to see Johnny & Tara & Terry as the commentators in Skate America and Skate Canada. We really enjoyed and were laughing a lot in some of their comments. Johnny has already impact, even just sitting there, and also is entertaining and knowledgeable, and Tara is catching the rhythm of Johnny's talking well. I think they are really match together with commentating and also Terry is a wonderful veteran commentator. I really love seeing this commentator combination. That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to seeing ISU competition on NBC. I was a little disappointed they didn't show them at the end at Skate Canada , and they were not commentating for Cup of China's event on November 9. Terry and Tracy did professional great job for Cup of China, although, I al

2014 - 2015 Figure skating season is already coming up ! Since this year's Sochi Olympics , several top skaters are not competing this season for a variety of reasons. We both miss Daisuke Takahashi 's skating in competitions. also it's something strange feeling Mao Asada is not in the competition this season, who had been always competing in seniors almost for 10 years. Also Brian Joubert .  He had been continuing to compete for a long time. I always love to watch veterans skating.  My favorite times are still from 2006 ( it's the year I started watching men's skating )  to 2008.  but I enjoyed to watch 2004 to 2005 seasons as well.  In any case, there is a fresh feeling  in the air this season's skating competition world. This season, my husband and I are looking forward to seeing the programs and performances of Jason Brown, Alexander Johnson, Samantha Cesario,  Polina Edmonds, Eelena Radionova, Katelyn Osmond , Kanako Murakami, Haruka Imai,

Sochi Olympics is over, and we have been really enjoying watching it since it started this month. While watching many Olympics subjects, we also enjoyed the beautiful snow mountain scenery of Sochi. My husband says it looks similar to the mountains in Austria , so beautiful. I love snow mountain. In this winter Olympics, my favorite subject is of course Figure skating . We were recording all the skating competitions as usual. I was very glad they have added " team " competition besides individual competition in figure skating, same as gymnastics,  which I have been hoping for. Also it's really great for skaters as well, because they get chance to have another medal. My husband and I really enjoyed with Team competition.  However I feel the team competition may be better to put after individual competition, because I found most of skaters who attended the team competition looked exhausted in the individual competition mentally and physically and it might