2014 Olympics Mens Short Program

[ARipp42014]

Anyone have an idea when the last two groups will be on? Wondering if I'll be able to make it back home in time to see at least the last two groups

I'm sure around 12-1 EST

 

[Rikku]

Anyone have an idea when the last two groups will be on? Wondering if I'll be able to make it back home in time to see at least the last two groups

Warm up for group 4 is supposed to begin 21:37:30, Sochi time

 

[blue_idealist]

Well good bye Liam. So sad. And because he skated first no quality points for his pcs. He tried his best I am sure but we can't all have stellar debuts - still this was pretty bad. A skater with no quad must land his or her jumps or at least only stumble on the triple axel. Hopefully better luck will be with the other skaters.I wonder how he feels??? Canadians and Americans rarely have such problems qualifying - though I do think skaters like Czisny have been held up. This makes vaughn Chipeur's efforts look much better in vancouver where and when he barely qualified.

At least Firus is only the third Canadian guy, so they probably expected more of Chipeur, being the second guy chosen over Sawyer and Reynolds. I can't help but wonder how Jeremy Ten would have done...

 

[yelyoh]

Anyone have an idea when the last two groups will be on? Wondering if I'll be able to make it back home in time to see at least the last two groups

12:45 EST more or less

 

[WeakAnkles]

Martinez is a delight. But I'm already sick of Romeo oh (God no!) Romeo. LOL

 

[waddup]

Thanks!

 

[sky_fly20]

Viktor Kudryavtsev is coaching Martinez now ?

 

[Angela V]

Well good bye Liam. So sad. And because he skated first no quality points for his pcs. He tried his best I am sure but we can't all have stellar debuts - still this was pretty bad. A skater with no quad must land his or her jumps or at least only stumble on the triple axel. Hopefully better luck will be with the other skaters.I wonder how he feels??? Canadians and Americans rarely have such problems qualifying - though I do think skaters like Czisny have been held up. This makes vaughn Chipeur's efforts look much better in vancouver where and when he barely qualified.

Well, I don't think anyone really thought he'd go into the top 24 anyway. So I/m really surprised.

 

[yelyoh]

MCM scores seemed a bit low.

 

[bibi24]

wow I was mistaken, MCM definitely better than Chris Caluza.

loved him and the Belgium skater as well

 

[aviva_dawn]

Loved Michael Christian Martinez!
I have no idea if he'll make it to the free....but it would be nice if he did.

 

[amateur]

Thank you for the explanation! I'm sorry for jumping onto it without knowing the background. Obviously I am a little out of the loop right now. I didn't read through the pairs threads. Sorry!

It's ok. No expectation that you should have to know all the background. You'd probably go crazy if you tried to read everything on this board, anyway

 

[Angela V]

Loved Michael Christian Martinez!
I have no idea if he'll make it to the free....but it would be nice if he did.

I thought he was awesome too! Interesting to learn that his country has only been to the Olympics 3 times and the last I think was 22 years ago!

 

[ARipp42014]

MCM scores seemed a bit low.

The downgrade really did a number on his score.

 

[snowflake]

LOL at Abzal playing with his suspenders

 

[sequinsgalore]

RAKIMGALIEV Abzal (KAZ)

Music: Swing Medley by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Black pants, pink shirt, black suspenders

3F+3T - turn in-between, hangs on
3A
3Lo
FCSp
StSq - lots of suspender-switching action!
CCoSP
CSSp

Problems with combo, but no other big mistakes. Still needs a lot of polish and his spins are quite laboured

SP: 34.50+29.68 = 64.18 (PB), in 4th (out of 6)

 

[sky_fly20]

Loved Michael Christian Martinez!
I have no idea if he'll make it to the free....but it would be nice if he did.

64 score is too low to make into the FS
unless others have an epic proportion meltdowns

 

[ciocio]

Go Plushy! :yay:

 

[WeakAnkles]

Maybe it's all the doodahfliperry with the suspenders, but that seems more like an exhibition program than a competitive one.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Was that playing with the braces part of the routine, or did he just do it to try to disguise the fact he had to fix them anyway?

CaroLiza_fan