No, the ISU does not always use the gold medallist as thumbnail. They sometimes use the silver and bronze medallists as thumbnails as well. You can check out the other programs' thumbnails.

Exactly. We all know why it's usually Yuzu coz he was responsible for keeping isu's lights on.

people like you are travelling 8000 km across the globe to see some crappy korean boys band. you not a figure skating fan, you just a crazy school girl obsessed with your idol. it's a shame that yuri on ice and hanyu are bringing people like you into figure skating fandom.

@@alexanderbakulin8836 stfu lol I see you everywhere bad talking Yuzu's fans

He may be a legend but he isn't the best skater anymore, just face it, Nathan has been the best for more than 3 years, Nathan is unbeatable )))

@@FK-jm7zx Better at what? Ah! yes in the horrible jumps, without height, without distance, overvalued. Yuzu is and will always be the best. Your art is better, your technique is better. Yuzu's heels are the most beautiful figure skating of all time. technique, distance, height, aerial position, landing.

@@FK-jm7zx Nathan is just an inflated score. He will never come close to Yuzu. It doesn't matter how many medals ISU gives to him. Yuzu is the best in history, art, technique and beauty.

Agreed

He had two rough years. He was about to quit at one point.

@@TheFlowMind obviously this was the beginning of something great. He just attempted 3A+4T with 17+ starting value, and it was so close!

exactly. his performance today was very heartfelt, despite the mistakes. i was on the verge of tears watching him skate with such elegance

buy a pair of eyes, crazy hanyu bot. your idol is nowhere near mikhail kolyada in all the above that you mentioned. he is like a cheap imitation of classical skater aimed to impress school girls, while mikhail kolyada looks like a true descendant of john curry, a true ballet artist on ice.

@@alexanderbakulin8836 you sounds mad.. Go to isu. Maybe if isu want they will give your fave gold medal.

@@yuazchan all the gold medals belong to the quad king, i'm pretty happy with that. let the hanyu bots cry to ISU or whatever.

@@alexanderbakulin8836 And ur a delusional person, everyone knows and recognizes Yuzuru as the truе OG, no one said Mikhail isn’t outstanding, no one ever even mentioned Mikhail. The only “bot” here is you, if you have to bring down one skater to praise the other. Ur obsessed, go get a life smh

@@Daniela-zx8kv it's hanyu bots who are bringing ALL THE SKATERS down, to put their idol above all. those ignorant blind nutjobs are saying that their idol is the most beautiful skater on the planet, and all others are not worthy of him, and then attacking people who are not sharing their opinion. of course hanyu bots never mentioned mikhail, they are so disrecpectful that they are not paying any attention to other skaters at all. i doubt that any of hanyu bots even bothered to watch mikhail programs. they don't need that to say that he is not worthy of hanyu.

he's always other worldly in term of quality

but not that day

Yes I agree, his program was so beautiful!

Couldn't have said it any better!

that's me- literally

You can see him skate while drinking tea, weooo weooo😆😆, you are so calm, every time when seeing him, my heartbeat seems like play roller coaster

Same. I stopped caring about ranks too

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@@anahilondero4566 Es un grandioso ser humano y un patinador sin igual.

yesss so true

@@minnie6163 but the quad axel base value isn't that much high compared to the other quads. They should increase the base value of quad axel

He would have if he didn’t singled the 4S

Pity the popped Salchow....Nathan consistency on his quads is incredible.

HAHA YURI ON ICE THO

Oh no, I hope he's okay! Do you have the link to the video?

Это важная психологическая победа для Миши, он третий! 👍после Чена и Ханю - это дорого стоит 😎🙌

@@user-sj9ls2to8o это точно, очень почётное третье место!!!

you just an ignorant hanyu bot, obsessed with your idol, who is disrespecting and not paying attention to other skaters abilities. hanyu vanilla copy paste performances (all his programs are basically the same) are nowhere near mikhail kolyada or jason brown. only politics are holding misha and jason down, with any invovment of fair judging they should be crushing hanyu in PCS. from skating skills to musicality misha and jason are two heads above overscored japanese golden boy.

@@alexanderbakulin8836 They were saying that yuzuru was obviously underscored since some time ago, even though he’s (obviously too) the greatest all around skater of all time. The guy excels beyond how one would imagined with his technical mastery, execution, and artistry. And well nathan, his ‘rival’, was overscored. This unfair scoring is subtle but when added up altogether creates a huge difference. When he had asthma attack at this year worlds fs, it was understandable. But when he performs as how he always did, of course the fault is only at the unfair scoring. The person commenting meant that a great skater would always be great regardless how fair the judges are. Everyone except you could see what i’m talking about

"jack of all trades, master of none" is a perfect description of hanyu. he is not the greatest all around skater, as hanyu bots are claming. many aspects of his skating are good, but none of them are great. misha kolyada and jason brown are two heads above hanyu as performers. and i'm ready to give up all the hanyu programs, for one step sequence of true japanese artist on ice, daisuke takahashi (2010 olympics short program eclipces everything that hanyu did in all of his career)

@@alexanderbakulin8836 actually, i literally wrote that i appreciate all the skaters and value their strengths and artistry. don’t even start inserting russia and america into the politics issue. the judges go more about which skater is their bias, and score consequently. of course, politics unfortunately matter, but russia and usa don’t in this case, in my opinion. jason brown does indeed get underscored many times, for his artistry is amazing. i find it honestly pointless replying to this comment anyways, since you totally misinterpreted what i was trying to say. the hate you’re showing for hanyu shows your bias as well, if i have to be honest. even those who don’t like him end up admitting that he is an amazing skater, in the same way those who don’t like nathan chen admit he is an amazing skater. it’s just about being objective. we should all respect every skater for their hard work, which you clearly are not doing.

It doesn't make any sense what you are saying here... Hanyu is a great skater, but his performance wasn't the best, he made several mistakes, so he lost to Nathan, as he has been losing to him for more than 3 years in all competitions!!, seriously what do you want from the judges?

Do not drag the name of Yuzu with that which is just an ego more inflated than your notes. Nathan is legend of what? He's nothing He's just a skater with no expression, personality, charisma and totally forgettable Yuzu is the two-time Olympic champion at the age of 23, Yuzu is art.

Nathan is just as forgettable and will pass like the dozens of Russian girls we saw in the past 10 years

Legend? Nathan doesn't even have a Junior World Championship in his history. All he has is inflation of notes

@@bubundun8508 Can you just stop with this already, both of them are incredible skaters. You don't have to bring Nathan down to praise Yuzuru.

They are not on the same level of importance and trajectory, so there is no reason to put Nathan on the side of Yuzu. Yuzu is and always will be far above. Where will Nathan be at 26 like Yuzu is now?

Евгений Семененко 🔥 Герой !

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You can praise Yuzuru without saying nasty things about other skaters. It's obvious that Nathan isn't just an episode, he is a great skater, he is the best skater today, he is a 3-time world champion and hopefully the winner of the next Olympics )))

@@FK-jm7zx exctly again :)

@@PanchoMaldonado-hf6rq yuzu is two times Olympic champion.... two times WC, got 19 world records... The one who can well balance tech and artistry aspects...those textbook jumps (that can't even find any imperfect in slowmo replays) and transitions, his spin... Ability to skate with the music. And if you wanna ask how he got so many WC titles, because of biased judges, inflated goe scores and the right passport.

@@flywithyou9354 Which WC titles did Nathan not deserve to win? He was so far ahead of the field each time that lowering his GOEs wouldn't've made a difference.

I also quit figure skating after yu-na kim retired and now i’m back.. the sport is quite interesting these days tbh

Yes please! He is so talented and he needs our support!

What is wrong with Shoma? :(

I hope nothing, I just wanted to say that he needs the support of his fans in general, because he seems to struggle a bit with the jumps and looked not happy in the end. I think many comments were about Yuzu and Nathan, but we should really appreciate the other skaters as well, because some of them like Shoma or Mikhail did also create a magical atmosphere with their program :)

@@mkashpur7697 broke his skates a few days ago, and he was skating in new boots

@@Lea-yb7tx Mikhail was amazing today

I've seen him live multiple time and he rarely misses. It was a bit of a shame here and the WC since he can do much better. He still needs to become a bit more fluid with the movements.

Thank you!

Thx :)

Thank you! I was almost starting to do the timestamps good that you did it! Your comment should be pinned!

Thanks for letting me know when Yuzuru starts!

Thank you!!

Artists belong in shows. This is sport competition..

@@mistique22003 But its called figure skating, not figure jumping. There´s nothing wrong in jumps, but too much is simply too much and the other - artistic - side suffers. Nathan is great, I do appreciate him and his skills :-).

@@maaritvesa3350 well I believe Nate has wonderful program, grate choreo sequence, foot work and spins. Sport should be about difficulty and technique also. Otherwise we will have 100 of skaters like Brown and they will be all the same, so how to deside who is better if they will have the same jumping content. In this case this sport will be 100% subjective and not fair.. And yes, this is figure skating, not artistic skating

@@mistique22003 wow what a definition. Idk whether to laugh at you or give you a 101 about what artists are 😌

@@AdiR0707 sure you can laugh, no problem. This is just my opinion. I think sport is not about artists. They have other places do develop their talents.

The best man won, get over it. Also, ISU does not always use the gold medallist as thumbnail. They sometimes use the silver or bronze medallist as thumbnail. You can check out other videos.

Чувствует что время его уходит... Быть побеждённым- трагедия для спортсмена , долгие годы не имевшим равных.

@@chikhimnatalia9840Да, для такого спорта 6 лет большая разница

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Yes if someone can explain it I really want to know too, since while I admit that Nathan's technicality is great, I honestly can't see how his PCS ended up higher than Yuzu using that program (honestly the song didn't really match Nathan's style imo, I felt some kinda disconnection when I watched it)

@@thifa5041 honestly i wonder the same. And I'll kinda disagree about the song, i think it fitted him more

Nathan definitely deserves higher pcs score. This is one of his best programs imo. His ballet program flows so much better than Hanyu's Japanese theme program. There is so much subtle beauty in Nathan's movements and interpretation of Philip Glass music. I really can't connect to Hanyu's program. His skating does not have much energy compared to the younger skaters and he was basically just moving around and jumping with no connection. The music wasn't that appealing too. In fact, I think that he is overscored compared to the better programs from the Russians and Jason Brown.

@@sporeKAfan you can said you cannot connect to his program, but you can't say his program does not have any connection. They are FULL of transitions please...I think you need to watch videos about breakdown of his program. His pcs are totally underscored. And one thing about Nathan, yes, he can jump and I really love that but preparation time for those jumps are too long and goe are a bit inflated... What I can say is the judges really bias.

@@flywithyou9354 I disagree. Hanyu's program is quite empty and is just skating around and jumping. No step sequence/footwork/transition. PCS is definitely overscored. Nathan's preparation time for jumps is fine because he has step sequence/footwork/transition and is basically telling a story. He has one of the cleanest and flawless execution in jumps, so I'm not sure why you think his GOE is overscored.

Underscored

agree

i’m terrified of the day he will decide to retire 😞 he himself though said that it’s not about whether or not he will retire after beijing, but rather whether he will be totally satisfied with himself. i’m glad about that

The commentators do talk about his retirement a lot. I kinda dislike it too 😅

I definitely agree with you on this one, I also find it irritating when the commentator keeps bringing up the rivalry between Yuzuru and Nathan, I understand that many people are particularly interested by the competition between these two gems but it just seems off to me to comment on the performance of an athlete only in comparison with another one.

They are highly subjective!

@@ancamg they aren't. this is a sport with actual rules which the judges fail to follow.