I’m an aerial artist and I understand how he can get sick flipping around. On training days I eat very lightly and stop eating a few hours before going to the studio. But just a coffee and one meal a day is excessive.

No. The bathrooms were segregated but Katherine used the white restroom. No one cared as everyone was so focused on meeting the deadlines of the space race

What a drama queen. Is she even relevant anymore? You don’t see the current crop of Russian gymnasts acting like divas.

Children of mothers who did illicit drugs while pregnant (as in Biles situation) frequently have ADHD and require medication. So I wasn’t surprised when it came out she was using Ritalin.

San Diego Comic Con now mails your badges to you, in fancy boxes. But before they started mailing them last year, the line to pick up badges was only a 20 min wait at most.

They don’t explain it in the series but Yuuri and Viktor speak English to each other and Yuuri’s family knows a bit of English from running an inn. Also during the international competitions the main group of skaters that interact are speaking English to each other, which often happens in real international…

First there is a movie coming out, which is great because it gives the fans something while future projects are planned. YOI is such a cash cow with the killing the Japanese DVD sales made that we are going to see a lot of projects in the future. And it’ll make even more money from overseas sales once those box sets…

True. But they were also showing a world of what could be.

So much this. The new scoring system favors powerful gymnasts.

Catalina Ponor of Romania competed at 28. She should have medaled in beam to but I think the pressure from Romania got to her. Romania shockingly did not qualify a team to the Rio Olympics because they recently changed their training system and things fell apart so the pressure was on Catalina. She just won her fifth…

You need a bit of height to have an advantage in bars and beam where the longer body is able to perform better. Simone Biles at 4'8" struggles on bars and is not exactly dominant on beam. Her height issues may be related to her early development-her biological mother was a drug abuser and before child services stepped…

You have to be 16 now and that is starting to shift the sport to older athletes. Laurie Hernandez was the only minor on the US team at 16 and everyone else was over 18. The average age of The Rio Olympic women’s gymnastics was 21.

I saw that too. It may have been open practice time and it was too hard to clear the ice of everyone.

Or they may just leave it out like in Yuri On Ice when Yuri - both with the regional accent and the main male character using feminine pronouns.

Yuri is the name of two of the main characters, one Russian and one Japanese. Yuri is also a popular Russian name thanks to Yuri Gagarian, the first human in space.

I loved that episode so much! It really showed how debilitating anxiety can be and sometimes how partners can fuck up. Crying and finally voicing his anxiety really helped Yuri out.

My understanding of Yuri On Ice is that this is a sports anime with a LGBTQ romance. And when you do that on Japanese TV, they have to imply a lot rather than explicitly show it. Although it does look like the animators did sneak in a kiss during Victor and Yuri’s exhibition duet skate. The original Japanese is much…

It was listed as a sports anime thus the censoring to make the Japanese censors happy.

It’s supposed to be Kiki from the Miyazaki film Kiki’s Delivery Service. And it's ridiculously weak.

That's plenty of time.mit takes 10 days from receiving the vaccine for the yellow fever certificate to become active. We just got the single dose 5 pack in stock and the manufacturer is allowing pharmacies and clinics to get 20 doses now so you should get your shot soon