Transcription of the Dutch Eurosport commentary of Hanyu's SP. M = man, W = woman
M: Yuzuru Hanyu, the Olympic champion, the man with the brilliant score this season, 330.43, that was 50 (? Hard to understand) points more than the score that made him Olympic champion. Admittedly, it wasn’t perfect what he showed in Sochi, but now he wants his world title back. It really annoyed him. Last year it didn’t work out, the only comfort was that the title came in the hands of his friend and training mate Javi Fernandez. If we get a Grand Prix kur (SP), then all we need to do is sit back and enjoy the next three minutes, because mistakes will be very difficult to see.
W: beautiful passes, quadruple salchow. And again passes before the quadruple toeloop and triple toeloop.
This makes me speechless, not normal, what a kur, again, and during the season he kept getting better, every competition he smashed his world record until that high point mid-December during the Grand Prix Final. Okay, he’s had some rest in (?) the second half of the season, (hard to understand, maybe “since” the start of the second half of the season), and how, “jonge jonge” (means something like wow wow), and honestly nobody can beat him this season, and that likely won’t happen here in Boston, either. Look at that, 62 and a half point already for the technique (at that very moment the counter goes down to 61.48, lol), almost ten points ahead, I don’t know what I should say about this, yes, what can one still say about this, and even Brian Orser can’t believe it, he doesn’t know what to say, either (this is said jokingly), we’re going to listen to what Brian manages to say. (Brian turns away, Yuzu turns back to the arena) (continued) Yeah, that’s not much, either (what Brian says). Unbelievably good and beautiful, that man can skate, that man can jump, everything is connected with gorgeous passes (this commentator always says this!). Here the quadruple salchow. And imagine you are sitting there, at the boarding, bonkers (this doesn’t translate well, “waanzinning” means something like crazy, unimaginable in the most positive sense of the word. She means how awesome it would be to sit there in the audience, with the quad salchow happening right in front of you). And look at that, how steadily landed, and immediately into a moons (still not sure about this word, what was it called again in English? Spread-eagle?), transitions, and all perfectly executed to the music. And also passes before that combination, which isn’t even necessary, before that gorgeous quadruple toeloop, which he barely hangs onto, and then, as if he is standing perfectly fine, a triple toeloop right behind it. It looks as if every insecurity is gone, the insecurity from the previous season, and here that magnificent triple axel, jumped as if from out of nowhere, like Fernandez, in the middle of the choreography, but yes, fair’s fair, even better executed by Hanyu. For that you cannot give anything less than a +3. Well, those were the jumps, and then we haven’t even talked about the skating skills, his manner of movement, his presentation, and of course he’s allowed to release the “pressure” (literally “load”, she refers to the multiple roars he emits after the program).
Will it be another world record? It’ll be close.
M: yes, with the tech score that we had on the screen, he’d be a bit in the plus, but we don’t know if that’s changed in the meantime. (sees the score) So yes, it was changed, and so it’s 0.39 points too little, with 110.56, and twelve points free from his closest rival, and that’s his training mate Javi Fernandez, and (I rightfully say? Hard to understand) before there was more tension (nervous excitement to know who is going to win) because Hanyu could also make a mistake, but this season, especially the latter half of the season… , <that’s not the case> (uhm, seems like the guy didn’t finish his sentence, or I misheard the start).
You cannot give him yet (eh… the gold medal?),4.30 minutes is something different than the 2.50 minutes in which he pretty much perfectly balanced and danced across the ice, but he has the <no clue>, and yes, then you’re called Maxim Kovtun and what are you going to do after such a mental (waanzinnig) performance?
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