Some folks have FEELINGS about Angers but i just had a good time. My 3 highlights: 1) getting a selfie with Ilia. We had to be pretty shameless to acost him but we reckoned we needed to do it before he fully embraces his rockstar era #GPFRA ⛸️

This hero held up her TRUST SURVIVOR sign from FB/C skating in to results. Bet the tv camera that loves audience faces didn't include her in the broadcast! #GPFRA #GPFIGURE

I've never been a particular fan of the Italians but now I'm full throatedly behind them. Revenge skate your BEST, Charlene and Marco! #GPAFRA ⛸️

She was also holding court backstage yesterday with a group of young people seated round her listening to her (the backstage diner is glass fronted). I know we all knew she's not cancelled but ☠️☠️ GPFRA ⛸️

Eteri is at dance practice ☠️☠️ #GPFRA ⛸️

Verily tis an (Egyptian) plague of orientalism of Biblical proportions #GPFRA dance practice 😖⛸️

Also, too much Bocelli (so many more MUCH better opera singers) ⛸️ #GPFRA

Why this sudden plague of orientalism? 😖⛸️ #GPFRA

Ok now that she is a GP champion people need to stop calling her Amy. It's AH-mi ⛸️ And definitely not Amy Naki

Pairs practice was a better watch than the competition:-( Riku / Ryuichi save us! #GPFRA

Ok everyone don't hate on me pl. But objectively FB/C looked amazing to me in practice. The power, speed and artistry. Though F/G's FD is surprisingly good. But I couldn't take G/F's RD seriously #GPFRA ⛸️

Said excited screaming schoolkids at pairs practice. Adorable! They'll be trying to toss each other in the schoolyard tomorrow #GPFRA ⛸️

This is really cute the rink is full of extremely excitable kids for the pairs practice. Screams upon landed simple jumps!! #GPFRA ⛸️

Well that was the most boring practice ever. We listened to (absent) French men's music than Ilia stroked through his runthrough (i think i heard he lost his bag borrowed skates could be why; but dont quote me i could be wrong) #GPFRA ⛸️

None of the French men are at practice. What is going on? #gpfrance ⛸️

Well I should have waited till after practice to do my fantasy skating. Chaeyeon is looking good #GPFRANCE ⛸️

Well my fs moots I'm in Angers, isabeau was on my train from the airport and I've already bumped into Deanna and Max. IT HAS BEGUN!! #GPDF ⛸️

Free dance is so full of originality and artistry versus the barren wasteland of RD #JGP

After nerve-jangling, jarring RDs, watching free dance is so satisfying #JGP

So nice to see a martial arts program performed by a person from actual China #LiYingRui ⛸️Boy is this young man going to give pronunciation troubles, do I need to start preparing a tutorial #JGP

Misha's free - The screeching falsetto is so not my vibe, but Misha clearly vibes to it and I'm happy to see him promote a Kazakh artist (Dimash) and do something unique that he loves 😊⛸️

Yes Matthew! Eat that apple in the Kiss&Cry! 😀⛸️ #DenisTenMemorial Also, I love your skating, I'm gonna skip this next bloody (literal) guy and rewatch your program

Dias is probably my favourite beautiful-artistry-but-cant-jump male skater at the moment 😊😢⛸️ #DenisTenMemorial

Do we remember the time HaeIn had to change her music? It was easily done. It didn't really matter what was playing. It's almost like that with this Carmen, for the most part it's not very Carmen-y... 😐⛸️ #DenisTanMemorial

I think that Williams and Lewer should do a Simon & Garfunkel program. Because their music is great, and because he looks like Art :-) #JGP ⛸️

They were really right about the plague of soft rock music for men's shorts 😑 #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

Oh, who is this elegant Qihan Zhao from China. Haha, poor kid, his name is well-nigh unpronounceable for mere (non-Chinese) mortals #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

Oh Misha, your jumps are gorgeous (usually) and we love you, but this is NOT an Olympic program #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

Misha Shaidorov needs better costumes. I say this with love. #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

Er, what happened to Raffy Zich? :-( The other skaters seemed to know he wouldn't show up, they were all lined up at the boards #DenisTanMemorial I hope SilenceOfLambs boy is ok ⛸️

I love Dias Jirenbayev! Fingers and toes cross for his jumps... #DenisTanMemorial Yay he did well! The musicality, the performance, the joy... chef's kiss ⛸️

Today seems to be "let's butcher ballet music with heinous editing" day #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

Andreas Nordeback is always worth watching #DenisTanMemorial ⛸️

The pretty China kid is up next. not doing too badly at all. And it was nice of him to clap loudly for Jun at the boards #Yudong #DenisTanMemorial What is this music it's dramatic (google: it's game music). Could he even beat Jun? YES HE CAN!

Seated and ready for Juuunnn!!! ARGH! Oops. Hoorah! Nice #gamutofemotions #denistanmemorial ⛸️

Bad music cuts alert! #nutcracker #MadelineSchizas #DenisTan

FS twitter is such a dumpster fire, someone is picking a fight with @skatingscores.com of all people! 😭⛸️ (Sadly I have to lurk there as half my fs moots are still there...)

So we now have to sit through a whole lot of emo music, flowy long skirts and angst-y gestures in the free dance after the abandon and excesses of the rhythm dance #JGP ⛸️

Oh! I like Michelle Deych and Ryan Hu, not super fast, but elegant lines ⛸️#JGP

Sat for the rinkside party in Bangkok. Of all the #JGP, this is the one I am most tempted to jump a plane to attend ⛸️

Hey Israel boy skating to Schindler's List, you have no idea how lucky you are that Thai skating audiences are so polite. At the Vuelta Espana protestors are attacking the Israel Premier Tech cyclists (most of whom are not even Israeli) screaming at them and waving Palestinian flags ⛸️

Rio Nakata's short is an Olympic program if ever there were one 😢⛸️ #JGP

I respect the Bangkok rink's commitment to k-pop and partying #JGP ⛸️

Adam creating the Creation of Adam is a bit too on the nose for me. (Will I be able to watch this without rolling my eyes?) But then, whoever said the Olympics are subtle...

Just for popcorn value I do so love a divisive backflip. Like pairs skating is not essentially the most freaking scary thing, when I watch live I watch through my fingers

I was "meh" with Jun's music choices, but now that I've seen snippets it's chef's kiss. What if Ilia, Misha and Adam also have bangers of free skates, we can't fit five on a podium! #figureskatingfanproblems

Love that this Indonesia girl is skating to Balinese music and IS ACTUALLY FROM BALI if google is to be believed (Indon is a big country)😁⛸️ #JGP

Junior women being much more watchable than I expected, so far (group 1) #JGP ⛸️

wait, weren't we done with finger pointing by the '90s? #RhythmDance #JGP ⛸️

Ah, Ted butchering Chinese names. The skating season has truly begun! ⛸️ #JGP