Good news! In another month and a half, on May 27th, ice fans will be able to see the "fresh" feathers! On April 11, 2022, Faoi officially announced that the Feather Runners will participate in all performances of Fantasy on Ice 2022 (Makuhari, Nagoya, Kobe, Shizuoka).
For countless ice fans, especially many new fans who only entered the pit during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this is really "great news"! After all, just a day before this news was announced, the biggest expectation and doubt of ice fans was probably still - when will the Feather String appear again?
Yusei's last appearance in public view was on February 21 when he returned to Japan from Beijing. Since then, some relevant news has been released, but I have not had any new videos and pictures (previous interviews, news and videos of competition training do not count), and this disappearance is nearly 2 months.
Many ice fans who have just "entered the pit" in February can't help but ask: Is this the legendary "black hole period"? When will we be able to see the "fresh" feather knots again? In fact, if you seriously study the "habits" of Yu Yu's past seasons, you will find that the "black hole" for 2-3 months or something may really be just a beginning... After all, he was the one who had a record of only half an hour in the year.
This "record" was set in 2020. Because of the epidemic, ice shows, events, competitions, etc. have been suspended in this year, throughout the year, except for the four continents championship in February at the beginning of the year, Yusheng knot string is almost a "year-round black hole period", until the end of the year, it appeared on the field of the all-day championship.
At that time, there were ice fans who counted his appearance time throughout the year in great detail:
Yes, not counting the two games at the beginning and the end, he appeared for a total of 32 minutes throughout the year. Of these seconds of time, some only contribute to sound...
So much so that when the Yusheng knot at the end of the year appeared at the draw ceremony of the All-Day Championship, even the Japanese media were sighing: Ah, this is the Yusheng knot that has not been seen in ten months!
Some people may say that this situation in 2020 is very special, because of the epidemic. What about other times?
The answer is that the long black hole period, even in the era of "non-epidemic", is very common.
For example, 2016, which also made many ice fans anxious. At the end of April 2016, after Yusuke Yusuke had finished the previous season's competition, the Japanese Ice Association announced that he needed to be treated for two months at a Canadian training base for a tarsal joint ligament injury to his left foot. At that time, there were still many ice fans who thought that in 2 months, they would still participate in the summer ice show. But the training to heal and re-ice didn't go well. Yu Yusuke rarely withdrew from the two ice performances of that year, DOI and Faoi.
At the end of June of that year, in the ice training video of the Cricket Club, ice fans saw the long-lost figure of Yusheng Knot. In July, Yusuke Yusuke announced the next season's selection (that is, the two stations of the Figure Skating Grand Prix) through the Japanese Ice Association, and after that, a succession of young players who participated in the summer training at the Cricket Club sent out photos with Yusheng Yushin, and the ice fans realized, Oh, it was more than 4 months since the World Championships at the end of March.
In 2016, the yusheng knot really reappeared in the public eye on August 22. Guinness recognized the three world records of the Yusheng runner (the highest score in the short program, free skating and total score in the Barcelona Grand Prix Finals) and issued a certificate of certification at the award ceremony. Yusei explained his new season program on the spot at the time: "The new SP is a light-paced and handsome song". "After a long time, he smiled in Japan." The Japanese media described the long-lost meeting at the time.
So you see, this time this year, the black hole period of Yusheng's string will only be more than 3 months, and he will give back to those ice fans who love him with the ice show of "all participating". This is an extra bonus for ice fans!
Moreover, the feather knot on the ice show will appear in a completely different form from the competition, sweet and noisy, which is super worth looking forward to!