Meanwhile, in between pairs practice and the pairs competition, there’s gala practice (!!) - Nathan Chen, Boyang Jin, and Vincent Zhou #Beijing2022
Boyang Jin skating to Westlife’s cover of Sarah McLachlan’s Angel for the exhibition. I thought I was in an ASPCA commercial with sad dogs. #Beijing2022
No music runthrus here but I’m pretty sure I just saw Caravan choreography #Beijing2022
And now for ice dance gala practice, which has turned into an ad-hoc short track speed skating practice. I think they are all training for the next Olympics. #Beijing2022
I can attest to the fact that there is no practicing actually happening in this ice dance gala practice. They are just all having a fun time enjoying the Olympic ice #Beijing2022
Maybe this is the new location of the Van Gogh Immersive exhibit #Beijing2022
And appropriately - Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier returns to their Starry Night free dance for the gala #Beijing2022
This thread: Men’s free skate press conference at #WorldFigure
Uno: I'm just happy about all of this because in both programs, I did better than what I expected. In the FS, there were mistakes here and there, I was able to put together the best performance I could do, so I'm very happy #WorldFigure
Cha: I'm very happy about the medal today, and about how I skated and what I did today. I really trained hard and I really want to enjoy today - and I gave everything, so I'm very happy about it #WorldFigure
This thread: Free dance press conference at #WorldFigure
Chock/Bates: It feels amazing! I'm still processing everything - it's been a really big goal for us for a long time. It's an incredibly experience to accomplish it here in front of the incredible crowd. They were literally to the roof of the arena today #WorldFigure
Guignard/Fabbri: This medal for us means so much. It's an incredible reward for many years of hard work, difficult moments, ups and downs. We still have to process it, we can't believe we got silver here - it feels really great #WorldFigure
This thread: Women’s free skate press conference at #WorldFigure
Sakamoto: Ideally, I would skate clean and end with a smile. But I made the same mistake as 4yrs ago, so I'm disappointed. But I was able to recover and add the 3T - so I think I've grown from 4 years ago #WorldFigure
Lee: This season, the first half was very rough. But I tried to not give up and come back. This was my first time at Worlds, so I wanted to come - I achieved everything I wanted to. I brought everything to the audience #WorldFigure
This thread: rhythm dance press conference at #WorldFigure - small medals are delayed because Piper Gilles has not arrived yet
Chock/Bates: It was an incredible energy in the arena today - looking around the arena and seeing the thousands of fans, it was really magical. They propelled us in our program and gave us so much energy - it was incredibly fun #WorldFigure
Guignard/Fabbri: It was the same feeling for us - it was a great crowd, great atmosphere. Skating was really easy for us tonight. We worked a lot on both programs, and we were very happy we performed the way we wanted to #WorldFigure
This thread: Men’s SP press conference at #WorldFigure
Uno: Score-wise and content, it wasn't all that bad. I had some missteps in the stepseq, and my 4T3T became 4T2T. But I've been working on this SP for the whole year, and I ahve no regrest #WorldFigure
Malinin: I came here to deliver, and I came here to perform and grind it out. I was so happy to be able to put out this performance in front of the Japanese crowd - I'm very happy about it #WorldFigure