#helsinki2018

Yuzuru Hanyu skated off the ice after his Free Skate at the 2018 Helsinki Grand Prix and was embraced by his coaches. His first words to Brian Orser, his primary coach was “I was fighting.”  Yes Yuzuru, you fought to hold on to those landings. The crowd went crazy and so did audiences around the world that watched him hold on. 

I believe that his goal is to reach 300 points. I will not be surprised if he does so by the end of the season.

Trump: Are we still in Britain?

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Sen. John McCain. Now he needs to walk the talk.:

“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.

“President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.

“It is tempting to describe the press conference as a pathetic rout – as an illustration of the perils of under-preparation and inexperience. But these were not the errant tweets of a novice politician. These were the deliberate choices of a president who seems determined to realize his delusions of a warm relationship with Putin’s regime without any regard for the true nature of his rule, his violent disregard for the sovereignty of his neighbors, his complicity in the slaughter of the Syrian people, his violation of international treaties, and his assault on democratic institutions throughout the world.

“Coming close on the heels of President Trump’s bombastic and erratic conduct towards our closest friends and allies in Brussels and Britain, today’s press conference marks a recent low point in the history of the American Presidency. That the president was attended in Helsinki by a team of competent and patriotic advisors makes his blunders and capitulations all the more painful and inexplicable.

“Well, that’s because he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.”

— Hillary Clinton,  Presidential Debate Oct 19, 2016