Men (FINAL)
1. Javier Fernandez ESP – 253.94
2. Patrick Chan CAN – 243.43
3. Nobunari Oda JPN – 238.34
4. Florent Amodio FRA – 218.72
5. Ross Miner USA – 213.60
6. Denis Ten KAZ – 203.70
7. Elladj Balde CAN – 199.94
8. Takahito Mura JPN – 199.74
9. Artur Gachinski RUS – 199.58
10. Liam Firus CAN – 169.67
VIDEOS: Men’s free skate
QUAD COUNT: 10 attempted (Mura toe, Gachinski toe, Gachinski toe, Amodio sal, Ten toe, Ten toe, Oda toe, Chan toe, Chan toe, Fernandez sal, Fernandez toe), 7 clean (Mura, Gachinski, Gachinski, Oda?, Chan, Fernandez, Fernandez)
Javier Fernandez ESP – triple toe (fall, completely slipped off the toe on the takeoff), quad salchow, triple axel, quad toe-double toe (nice!), triple lutz-double toe, triple loop, triple flip-half loop-triple salchow, triple salchow – great recovery from that fluke fall at the beginning – TES 85.15, PCS 83.92, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 168.07, TOTAL SCORE 253.94
Patrick Chan CAN – quad toe-double toe, quad toe (hand down), triple lutz, triple axel (possibly underrotated, fall out, hand down), triple loop, triple lutz (fall out), triple flip-half loop-double salchow, double axel – TES 75.13, PCS 86.78, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 160.91, TOTAL SCORE 243.43
Nobunari Oda JPN – quad toe (pulls it out, but could have been underrotated), triple axel, triple axel (fall out), triple lutz-triple toe, triple flip-double toe (bad pick off the flip but got it done), triple loop, triple salchow, triple flip (underrotated) – the music was a bit overpowering in the first section; I do like that he’s experimenting, with success, with choreography – TES 78.48, PCS 77.72, FS SCORE 156.20, TOTAL SCORE 238.34
Denis Ten KAZ – quad toe (possibly underrotated, fall), quad toe (possibly underrotated, fall), triple axel (nice), triple lutz (squeaks it out), triple flip (step out), triple loop-double toe, double flip-double toe-double toe, triple toe (fall) – TES 58.74, PCS 72.70, FALLS -3.00, FS SCORE 128.44, TOTAL SCORE 203.70
Florent Amodio FRA – quad salchow (step out), triple salchow, double axel, triple axel (squeaks it out), triple flip, walley into triple lutz, double axel, triple salchow-triple toe – TES 69.41, PCS 74.70, FS SCORE 144.11, TOTAL SCORE 218.72
Second group on the ice! Amodio, Ten, Oda, Chan, Fernandez
Elladj Balde CAN – triple toe, triple flip, triple axel-single toe, triple loop (fall), double axel, triple lutz-double toe-double toe, triple lutz, triple salchow-double toe – the music actually grew on me, and I do like the risk he’s taking with the selection, but the program construction, especially in the second half, needs to be there too – TES 61.56, PCS 65.92, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 127.48, TOTAL SCORE 199.94
Artur Gachinski RUS – quad toe (a little celebratory mazurka out of that), quad toe-triple toe (nice!), triple axel (fall), triple axel (fall out), triple loop, single lutz (completely rushed the pick in), triple salchow (hangs on), double axel-double axel sequence (scratchy) – the program starts well but the second half almost feels like it wasn’t choreographed – TES 63.40, PCS 67.44, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 129.84, TOTAL SCORE 199.58
Ross Miner USA – double salchow, triple axel-double toe, triple axel (right on the music), triple lutz-triple toe, triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow, double loop, triple flip, spread eagle into double axel – well-trained, really powerful skating right to the end – TES 73.91, PCS 70.28, FS SCORE 144.19, TOTAL SCORE 213.60
Takahito Mura JPN – quad toe, triple lutz-triple toe, triple axel (beauty), single loop (really long tentative preparation into that one), triple axel-double toe, triple salchow (downgrade, fall), triple lutz, triple flip – he messes up the two easiest jumps in the program! – TES 72.00, PCS 66.64, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 137.64, TOTAL SCORE 199.74
Liam Firus CAN – triple axel (two-foot, underrotated likely, fall), triple lutz, triple flip, double axel-double toe, triple loop, triple lutz(turn out)-single toe, double axel(foot down, turn out)-double toe, just a bit loose on the step sequence, triple salchow (fall out, hand down) – TES 49.51, PCS 60.66, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 109.17, TOTAL SCORE 169.67
First group on the ice! Firus, Mura, Miner, Gachinski, Balde
Pregame analysis: Quads galore tonight, but of course, how many actually get landed cleanly is a different question. All but two of the guys will be trying quads tonight, so it’s bound to be exciting. Fernandez has the chance to become Spain’s first Grand Prix winner, though if the past year has been telling at all, the second half of his free skate is not his strongest point.
The verdict is still out on Chan. No quad yesterday and a mistake on the triple axel. It was a beautiful program, but the technical merit wasn’t there. And if he hopes to get himself to the top of the podium, he’s going to have to put some technical firepower out there. With this group, he can’t rely just on his PCS, especially if the quad isn’t going well tonight.
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Skate order
GROUP 1
1. Liam Firus CAN – 60.50
2. Takahito Mura JPN – 62.10
3. Ross Miner USA – 69.41
4. Artur Gachinski RUS – 69.74
5. Elladj Balde CAN – 72.46
GROUP 2
6. Florent Amodio FRA – 74.61
7. Denis Ten KAZ – 75.26
8. Nobunari Oda JPN – 82.14
9. Patrick Chan CAN – 82.52
10. Javier Fernandez ESP – 85.87
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