Men's LP...play-by-play coverage/comments

**fratboy96** · 02-16-2006, 02:19 PM

Start times from the NBC website:

Penultimate group:

Evan Lysacek (9:17 local time/3:17 ET)
Matt Savoie (9:25 local time/3:35 ET)
Gheorghe Chiper (9:34 local time/3:34 ET)
Emanuel Sandhu (9:42 local time/3:42 ET)
Zhang Min (9:50 local time/3:50 ET)
Shawn Sawyer (9:59 local time/3:59 ET)

Final group:

Yevgeny Plushenko (10:14 local time/4:14 ET)
Stephane Lambiel (10:23 local time/4:23 ET)
Johnny Weir (10:31 local time/4:31 ET)
Jeffrey Buttle (10:40 local time/4:40 ET)
Brian Joubert (10:48 local time/4:48 ET)
Daisuke Takahashi (10:57 local time/4:57 ET)

**Sk8n Mama** · 02-16-2006, 02:28 PM

Crud! I have to pick up my daughter at 3:30!

**Kirkbiggestfan** · 02-16-2006, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Sk8n Mama

Crud! I have to pick up my daughter at 3:30!

Can't she wait til 5:06?

**Frau Muller** · 02-16-2006, 02:34 PM

Back for a bit...and Kevin Van der Perrer seems to be on FIRE!!!!! Hit quad & tons of triples. Audience going crazy!!!!!

Seems like Klimkin & Davydov did well...1 & 2, respectively...but I hear that people are now going BONKERS for Kevin, with instant standing-o. NBC sure better show him, that's all I have to say!!!!

"Perfect on the most important night of his life!!" says Chris.

Standings/scores (as soon as Kevin's is up):

10 VAN DER PERREN Kevin BEL 13 65.36 1 132.03 1 197.39
7 KLIMKIN Ilia RUS 18 61.61 2 130.19 2 191.80
9 DAVYDOV Sergei BLR 14 64.65 5 119.94 3 184.59
3 LI Chengjiang CHN 21 60.23 3 121.98 4 182.21
1 VERNER Tomas CZE 22 59.71 4 120.36 5 180.07
6 DAMBIER Frederic FRA 19 61.17 6 116.42 6 177.59
2 LINDEMANN Stefan GER 20 60.52 7 112.05 7 172.57
8 PFEIFER Viktor AUT 17 62.17 9 101.70 8 163.87
4 BERNTSSON Kristoffer SWE 23 59.55 8 102.40 9 161.95
5 TOTH Zoltan HUN 24 55.07 10 90.40 10 145.47

**merrywidow** · 02-16-2006, 02:37 PM

Davydov 119.94/184.59
Klimkin 130.19/191.80

**Frau Muller** · 02-16-2006, 02:40 PM

Anton Kovalevsky of Ukraine now...Chris & Simon remind us that his mark-down to 16th place was the 'scandal judging' of the men's SP. "Were the judges asleep?"

Spartacus

3 flip-3toe gorgeous technique

3 axel??? no....

3 lutz-2 toe

3 loop???....a fall of some sort (big gasps)

**Sk8n Mama** · 02-16-2006, 02:49 PM

Can't she wait til 5:06?

Really! How dare those teachers not keep them til after the men's event!

**Mafke** · 02-16-2006, 02:53 PM

very quick:

Eurosport announcers (Polish) had no idea why Klimkin was ranked so low after SP (I don't either). He did much better, but fell on cantilever(!) He promises to do better at worlds.

Van Perrin totally rocked the house. Two-footed the quad and his double-loop (at the end of a 3/3) was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen and lots of balance checks but his best ever LP so far. Good for him.

Kovalevski fell _twice_ in footwork. nice quick rotations in his jumps and good basic quality, I think he might go places with world class coaching.

**sk8ingmom116** · 02-16-2006, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Sk8n Mama

How dare those teachers not keep them til after the men's event!

I hear you Sk8nMama - my 14 year old son has his first playoff hockey game at 5pm today - I told my husband (manager of the team) to try to postpone until later on after the men were done - he gave me a very disgusted look.

**Frau Muller** · 02-16-2006, 02:58 PM

Scores/satandings after first two groups -- ice resurfacing now.

10 VAN DER PERREN Kevin BEL 13 65.36 1 132.03 1 197.39
7 KLIMKIN Ilia RUS 18 61.61 2 130.19 2 191.80
9 DAVYDOV Sergei BLR 14 64.65 5 119.94 3 184.59
3 LI Chengjiang CHN 21 60.23 3 121.98 4 182.21
12 DINEV Ivan BUL 15 63.64 6 116.47 5 180.11
1 VERNER Tomas CZE 22 59.71 4 120.36 6 180.07
6 DAMBIER Frederic FRA 19 61.17 7 116.42 7 177.59
11 KOVALEVSKI Anton UKR 16 63.41 9 109.43 8 172.84
2 LINDEMANN Stefan GER 20 60.52 8 112.05 9 172.57
8 PFEIFER Viktor AUT 17 62.17 11 101.70 10 163.87
4 BERNTSSON Kristoffer SWE 23 59.55 10 102.40 11 161.95
5 TOTH Zoltan HUN 24 55.07 12 90.40 12 145.47

**Frau Muller** · 02-16-2006, 03:00 PM

re. Ivan Dinev of Bulgaria -

Did I hear correctly at the very end....the Eurosport guys said something to the effect that "Dinev left ice abruptly after his program, rather than salute the judges & 8,000-strong public. All the more reason that they might knock him down further." Can someone confirm/explain????

**Frau Muller** · 02-16-2006, 03:03 PM

It's Evan & Matt in the next group...not to forget 'The E-man.' Will it be a classic 'E-man Bounce-Back'? Isn't this his 'masterpiece' programme coming up? I wish them all well!!!!!

**Sk8n Mama** · 02-16-2006, 03:04 PM

Which Eman will we see today?

**Jane2** · 02-16-2006, 03:07 PM

Oh crud!
I've listened to this on eurosport all week but can't find the 'live audio' button!
I've read a few different times where some of you mention how hard it is to find, & I've never had trouble till today.

Any help? pretty please?
Thanks!
Jane