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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

Tatsuki Machida Congratulations on winning a gold medal in Cup of China ! I was glad  to hear he won it because we both thought he is a wonderful skater and was very impressed with his performances since Skate America. I thought Daisuke would take it for Cup of China, but also possibly Machida could have won as well. Because Daisuke and many other skaters quads are still not consistent, no one is ( was ) consistent like Plushenko, so anything can happen. Joubert might be the only other skater who had consistent quad. ( Not sure for this season ) But overall he was not consistent as well with  other elements. I’m sorry to hear Joubert had illness so had to withdraw from the competition. Hope he will get quick recovery. Machida’s Short Program may be my another top favorite program so far. It ‘s really Lambiel program to me. Very unique and creative.  We both love it ! Seems like it was really hard to create these choreography with this music, they said they almost gave u