2015 Worlds Men Free Skate March 28

[ancientpeas]

Also be happy with Han getting a medal.

Does Spain and KAZ have 2 other skaters that can meet the minimum mark?

 

[satine]

Seeing Han & Yuzu on the same ice makes me nervous

 

[shiroKJ]

Hanyu looks nervous. I'm not ready.

He said he wasn't competition ready in terms of nerves yet. ..neither am i....

I just want him to do his best in his current condition. Japan already lost its 3 spots anyways.:hopelessness:

 

[Sugarpova]

GOOOOOOOOO Sergei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bb!
veterans rule!

 

[Alchamei]

Go Sergei!

 

[Doggygirl]

Final group now
I miss Machida.

I was just thinking that. Why is he not here? (Obviously I missed some news!)

 

[carriecmu0503]

Spain?

If Javier finishes first or second, Spain will have 3 spots. Same situation regarding Ten- Kaz. will have 3 spots as well if he finishes 1 or 2.

 

[roxella]

Sexy Voronov :

 

[satine]

Sorry, I didn't hear the announcer.

Per IN, Misha pronounces it as "Gee" -- with a soft "g." So "jee." (But not "geh.")

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130717&content_id=53974396&vkey=ice_news
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110617&content_id=20626518&vkey=ice_news​

This pronunciation discussion also has come up in other threads.
My opinion is that it is all too easy to criticize announcers, when in fact pronunciations often are tricky and/or non-intuitive.

:thumbsup: Exactly

 

[gravy]

This is a MAAAAAN'S world!

 

[anonymoose_au]

Go Sergei! Throw down for the old boys!

 

[Alchamei]

Popped the quad...

 

[karne]

Is there a change in Jason's costume? something looks different..

pants are no longer that ugly horrible spew colour

and no silly boot covers or ugly belt

 

[text_skate]

Go, Sergei. I've predicted you'd be in 5th. I won't mind 4th.

Oh, no popped.

 

[ruffledgrouse]

He clicked his skates together and popped.

nice recovery

 

[Li'Kitsu]

I like Jasons new pants. They do a good job with... erm... you know

Good luck to everyone in the final group! Skate well!!

And I reeeeeaaaally love Nam and Misha in the 2nd KnC

 

[thoakun]

That good. I wish I could speak as fluent as him one day and Russian as well. I tried to learn Russian a few years ago but I stopped at the difference between идти and ходить. The noun declension killed me especially numbers. The good thing is I can read Cyrillic now. Chinese is a lot easier actually.

A Taiwanese skating fan told me that she was surprised at how fluent Misha is in English and Mandarin. I read up a bit on his profile and he's probably the most international skater, growing up in different countries. He had the advantage of being immersed in the languages but apparently he has a knack for learning language.

 

[satine]

I was just thinking that. Why is he not here? (Obviously I missed some news!)

He retired after Nats

 

[DaPurpleDino]

Not to offend Spain and Kazakhstan but that will be waste of those spots since their pool lacks high quality skaters.

But spots allows their skaters to experience international competitions and gain experience which all contributes to creating higher quality skaters

 

[anonymoose_au]

Damn! What causes a popped jump anyway?

Come on Sergei nail the rest of this!