Patrick Chan made history in Vancouver claiming his tenth national championship in the same city where he won his first. The 2014 Olympic silver medallist skated a technically tentative, but soulful free program to “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley and completed his national career with a total score of 272.24. In the long program, Chan managed two quadruple toe loops, but doubled his triple Axel attempts.
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Still.....ten national titles. That's impressive in of itself, not to mention the the other bag of international medals. What are your observations on his performance compared to his last skate before he withdrew from NHK?
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“I was telling [coach] Ravi [Walia] it is obviously not the dream skate I expected for number ten,” Chan reflected. “It feels good and maybe it’s just not having the best skate of my life, having won my tenth, but there have been a lot of great ones that I can count. Of course, I would have loved to have landed and nailed every single jump, but I did what I had to do, and I had a lot of my own demons coming here. I was able to accomplish a big goal and a big step forward, so I feel good for the Olympics.”
Still.....ten national titles. That's impressive in of itself, not to mention the the other bag of international medals. What are your observations on his performance compared to his last skate before he withdrew from NHK?