Sooo glad he kept it together. I assume this is going to beat Chan based on the TES but I've been wrong twice tonight about scores so I won't hold my breath!
That 4Sal though... has he landed one cleanly this year? Between him and Fernandez... both of Orser's big guns have been sitting that 4Sal down A LOT this year.
Well I got 60 points out of that round. Thanks Oda and Machida for finishing where I thought you would finish. This could have been a zero point round.
I would say that he lost 4 points off the base value... And then about 2 more off GOE that he can get if he does that as well as he has the potential to.
This would get Hanyu almost up to 109 TES.
He can break 100 in SP, 200 in FS, 300 total easily, doesn't even need to be absolutely perfect. He also -has- clearly improved his presentation and upper body usage and his scores there have deservedly been going up.
Congrats to all the medalists and wow Machida for coming back from yesterday!
That said, I think Hannyu's score was way too high... His PCS, especially SS is nowhere near near Patrick.
I don't think we'll see these scores at the Olympics.