Men's short on Eurosport now!

[Ptichka]

can somebody tell me how North Korea qualified skaters? Olympics are not 4CC or Worlds where every country can get at least a spot. I do not see any of NK skaters placing in the top 4 at golden spin of Zagreb.

I believe Korea is putting out a unified team this Olympics (South AND North). So perhaps SK qualified, and gave a spot to NK.

Edited: correction, that's right, Han was 4th in Vienna.

 

[soogar]

I believe Korea is putting out a unified team this Olympics (South AND North). So perhaps SK qualified, and gave a spot to NK.

North Korea won their spots at the Olympic qualifying competition (Karl Schaefer). They did very well there.

 

[Frau Muller]

Which version of "The E-man" will we see today???? Ohhhh....I'm so nervous!

GO EMAN!!!
GO EVAN!!!
GO ILYA!!! Davai!!!!!

 

[STL_Blues_fan]

thanks for the NK info soogar, Kirk fan and Ptichka

I meant Karl Shaffer, not Golden Spin.

AFAIK, the Koreas were marching together at the Opening Ceremonies, but I don't think they are competing as a single nation. There are talks for the future though.

I guess it's a shame for the NK guy to have a disaster of a program. When I saw the marks I couldn't comprehend him grabbing one of the available spots at KS. Let's hope "Dear Leader" is not going to punish him.

 

[Frau Muller]

I meant Karl Shaffer, not Golden Spin.

... When I saw the marks I couldn't comprehend him grabbing one of the available spots at KS. Let's hope "Dear Leader" is not going to punish him.

That's what I was thinking about their pair, who came in 20th (last) in the Pairs SP, then pulled out before the start of the LPs! I hope that they will be OK. Any other country, I wouldn't worry.....

 

[Kirkbiggestfan]

I wonder if Evan will go for the quad, maybe he should play it safe!

 

[Doggygirl]

I think you may have forgotten that wonderful scene during 2002 Oly Exhibition when Alexei Yagudin changes his shirt and lets his pants drop down and he had on black speedo underwear. :agree: :agree: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, those were the good old days.

Doggygirl, you're not the only bad girl on the board.

Dee

How did I miss that?? Please tell me I'm not having a Senior Moment!!

DG

 

[Frau Muller]

Yet - if Evan tries & succeeds with the quad, he'll surely end up in top-5 group.

This is very exciting! I can't imagine people not wanting to know what is happening, in real time, even if they don't get TV coverage. Why wait for good-old NBC 'coverage'? Oh, well -- to each his own, I realize!

 

[Frau Muller]

Warm Up quotes:

"Emanuel Sandhu all over the place......"

"It'll be noise at start - Zelenka of Italy up first. He's orig'ly fm Czech Rep.'


Zelenka announced - Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet

WOW - went for 3 axelbut a hard tumble.

3 flip-3 toe YES - Super!

OK 3 lutz...not gt running edges but they count.

Into 21st.

 

[childfreegirl]

ZELENKA: And the crowd goes wild!!! (He's Italian)
3a fell
3f/3?t - super
3L - dosen't have great running edges coming out on these jumps, but he is making them count

(Crowd really getting into music, clapping)

53.46

 

[childfreegirl]

Evan's up!

 

[Frau Muller]

OK - here's Evan Lysacek!!!!!!!!
Gypsy Kings music

fall on 3 axel???

3lutz - 3 toe (no quad) - good

2 flip...'performance falling apart'

'He's just going through the paces now. Needs to give this [footwork] loads more..." "A shadow of what we saw in Moscow last year..."

9th...guess he's lucky for this...

 

[childfreegirl]

Evan:

lateral? on the 3a
3L/3t, no quad
2f - he's really fallen apart, this performance
He's just going through the paces now. He usually gives this loads more.
He looks in a daze at the end of that.

Chris says there was an extra half a foot on the takeoff of the 3a going in the wrong direction. ???

67.55 -9th

 

[CDMM1991]

Lysacek

Bad Warm-up: Fell on 3As repeatedly
3A- falls
3Z-3T- awwwwww didn't go for the quad [probably because of falls on 3A]
He seems slow [Watching live on CBC]
3F-Turns it to a double

Poor Evan. Hopefully he'll bring the house down in the long w/ the quad

 

[Doggygirl]

Evan!!!

Oh my.

 

[soogar]

What if Evan doesn't reach the final?

 

[Frau Muller]

What if Evan doesn't reach the final?

He's 9th. No problem.

2 PLUSHENKO Evgeni RUS 1 90.66
13 WEIR Johnny USA 2 80.00
11 LAMBIEL Stephane SUI 3 79.04
23 JOUBERT Brian FRA 4 77.77
1 TAKAHASHI Daisuke JPN 5 73.77
5 BUTTLE Jeffrey CAN 6 73.29
22 SAVOIE Matthew USA 7 69.15
8 CHIPER Gheorghe ROM 8 67.66
26 LYSACEK Evan USA 9 67.55
14 ZHANG Min CHN 10 67.39
3 SAWYER Shawn CAN 11 67.20
18 VAN DER PERREN Kevin BEL 12 65.36
15 DAVYDOV Sergei BLR 13 64.65
6 DINEV Ivan BUL 14 63.64
21 KOVALEVSKI Anton UKR 15 63.41
10 PFEIFER Viktor AUT 16 62.17
9 DAMBIER Frederic FRA 17 61.17
19 LINDEMANN Stefan GER 18 60.52
4 LI Chengjiang CHN 19 60.23
16 VERNER Tomas CZE 20 59.71
7 BERNTSSON Kristoffer SWE 21 59.55
25 ZELENKA Karel ITA 22 53.46
12 ZIVANOVIC Trifun SCG 23 53.40
17 OTHMAN Jamal SUI 24 52.18
20 MURVANIDZE Vakhtang GEO 25 49.68 FNR
24 HAN Jong In PRK 26 42.11 FNR

 

[childfreegirl]

Klimkin:
3a (huge crowd reaction)
3t supposed to be quad
3f/2t

61.61 - in 17th

 

[Frau Muller]

Ilya -

3 axel OK.

quad....problem ('only' 3 toe)

3 flip-3 (or 2?) toe - good

"He was allright but could have been much better with a bit of courage." "Weir is only man whose broken from the pack...beside Plush."

17th from Ilya.

 

[enlight78]

lysacek 67.55 9th, so sad