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

Oh, what a shame that he fell once and had a hand down on the second quad! All of his combinations were beautifully executed, though, and he usually struggles with those. Overall it was good but I feel like his spins are slower, for the most part, than last year and the year before. I hope it's good enough for the podium...

TES=76.89
PCS=76.28
FS Total=152.17 BELOW EVAN!
Event Total=231.21

Johnny's up. He definitely won't go for the quad now, after Lambiel's skate.

I can't believe Plushy's final score. Is anyone that much better than the rest? Love the guy, though, and am glad for his inevitable win.......42

Oh....
Johnny Weir - Otonal Yeah, Johnny!!!!!!!!!

***starting piano music****

3 ax - 3 toe!!! FABULOUS!!!!

2 axel...no quad...seems to be changing his program...

3 salchow

3 axel (problem? hard to understand...no applause....)

3 loop BEAUTIFULLY landed

3 lutz..fought through that one...didn't put planned 3 toe onto it

little stutter....3 flip ("oh my goodness" "making it up as he goes along, I think...")

moves in field - glorious footwork...spirals...

end - HUGE CHEERS! "What an interpreter he is. He looked at what Lambiel did or didn't do...so a virtually clean performance, to get on podium. But - the magic not there." say Simon & Chris.

4th only!!!!! awww....Evan ahead of Johnny!

BOOOS!!!!!! JUDGES REALLY DINGED HIM!!!!!!!
19 PLUSHENKO Evgeni RUS 1 90.66 1 167.67 1 258.33
20 LAMBIEL Stephane SUI 3 79.04 3 152.17 2 231.21
13 LYSACEK Evan USA 10 67.55 2 152.58 3 220.13
21 WEIR Johnny USA 2 80.00 5 136.63 4 216.63
14 SAVOIE Matthew USA 8 69.15 4 137.52 5 206.67
10 VAN DER PERREN Kevin BEL 13 65.36 6 132.03 6 197.39
17 ZHANG Min CHN 11 67.39 8 128.88 7 196.27
7 KLIMKIN Ilia RUS 18 61.61 7 130.19 8 191.80
18 SAWYER Shawn CAN 12 67.20 9 123.63 9 190.83
16 SANDHU Emanuel CAN 7 69.75 11 120.49 10 190.24
15 CHIPER Gheorghe ROM 9 67.66 14 118.53 11 186.19
9 DAVYDOV Sergei BLR 14 64.65 13 119.94 12 184.59
3 LI Chengjiang CHN 21 60.23 10 121.98 13 182.21
12 DINEV Ivan BUL 15 63.64 15 116.47 14 180.11
1 VERNER Tomas CZE 22 59.71 12 120.36 15 180.07
6 DAMBIER Frederic FRA 19 61.17 16 116.42 16 177.59
11 KOVALEVSKI Anton UKR 16 63.41 18 109.43 17 172.84
2 LINDEMANN Stefan GER 20 60.52 17 112.05 18 172.57
8 PFEIFER Viktor AUT 17 62.17 20 101.70 19 163.87
4 BERNTSSON Kristoffer SWE 23 59.55 19 102.40 20 161.95
5 TOTH Zoltan HUN 24 55.07 21 90.40 21 145.47



Chris says ""That is disbelief!!! Ridiculous!!!!!!!"

Frau Muller said:

I'm just quoting the Eurosports commentators from the UK....

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I know, I was just disagreeing with the commentator. It was good enough for Gold in this competition, but it was not a special performance for me.

No way should Plushy get PCS 9 points higher than Lambiel.

Frau Muller said:

Oh....
Johnny Weir - Otonal Yeah, Johnny!!!!!!!!!

***starting piano music****

3 ax - 3 toe!!! FABULOUS!!!!

2 axel...no quad...seems to be changing his program...

3 salchow

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OMG ... so nervous ... read FABULOUS as FALL!!

WEIR

3A-3T- perfect
3A- turns to a double
3S
3A- two-footed and fell out
3L-very nice
3Lz- a little leaning in the air, saved it nicely
3F
Barb says that the program he is doing is very different from the one that they have on paper, and he has only done one combination.
Will he use his eighth jumping pass?
NO! JOHNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
He left a whole jumping pass on the table, AND two combinations! What was he thinking?

Oh my! The camera just closed-up on Johnny at the end of his skate and I'm pretty sure he said the F word.

Sk8n Mama said:

Oh my! The camera just closed-up on Johnny at the end of his skate and I'm pretty sure he said the F word.

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Oh boy...Jeff up next...I think my heart is beating 3 times faster than usual!

Putting the mute on the TV now...I can't bear to watch until I know HOW he did.

Might have just cost himself a medal with that mess.

Sk8n Mama said:

Oh my! The camera just closed-up on Johnny at the end of his skate and I'm pretty sure he said the F word.

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Haha! I didn't notice that!

TES=61.27
PCS=75.36
FS Total=136.63
Event Total=216.63

Ranked FOURTH. Three skaters still to come! Behind Evan again!

Jeff up now! NERRRRRRVVVVOUSSSSSSSSSS

CDMM1991 said:

TES=61.27
PCS=75.36
FS Total=136.63
Event Total=216.63

Ranked FOURTH. Three skaters still to come! Behind Evan again!

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Poor guy! And Evan made up over a 20 point deficit in the SP. Man I love COP!!! Johnny should have done some easy 3-2-2 sh!t combos to make up the ground.

CDMM1991 said:

TES=61.27
PCS=75.36
FS Total=136.63
Event Total=216.63

Ranked FOURTH. Three skaters still to come! Behind Evan again!

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Fourth IS the Fword here... poor Johnny...

Jeff Buttle of Canada here!!!!!
last yr's lovely music, Samson

Gorgeous 3 lutz - 3 toe!

Super change-of-edge

Quad? no......(gasp)

3 ax - hand down...awwww...

2nd 3 ax try - YESS!!!! Cheers.

doubles the loop

***missed a bit**** 3-2 combo there...

3 lutz super "He might resurrect a medal!"

TERRIFIC 2nd HALF!!!! Is it enough? Huge volley of bravos & screams.

[Babou on the ice warming up & lots of ladies squealing!!!!]

Back to Jeff - his scores - 3rd!!!! no US medal...but the marks have been absolutely right. Now Babou.

OWWWW, poor Johnny!

BUTTLE

New costume for the S&D program
3F-3T perfect
4T- all the way around, but falls; at least he rotated it
3A [hand down]-2T- at least he did it, and it was a very minor touchdown
Man, is this guy a performer
3A- PERFECT!
3L-turned to a double
3Lz-2T-2L-perfect
Missed a pass
3Lz- nice