2025 Skate America Men's Free Skate

[saine]

Nicely done by Liam, he didn't let the pop throw off the rest of his jumps and that was some deep knee bend on the opening jump.

 

[labgoat]

Quietly clean and moving skate by Liam.

 

[FlossieH]

Nice skate from Liam Kapekis.

 

[jgg220]

Liam's program was stunning but it was also not the best 23 minutes of my life.

 

[Ares]

Quietly clean and moving skate by Liam.

I liked that Liam didn't have any vocals in hi music, felt like a ... relief to me suddenly.

 

[Jeanie19]

Liam. Interesting outfit. Good program and skate.

 

[lileychristie]

Liam with his leather shoulder corset Love his ending pose, so good!

 

[slider11]

Maybe I'm the odd woman out, but that long delay weirdly didn't seem very long to me... probably because I was focused on making some tea and preparing a snack?

Any explanation of the delay?

 

[Kris135]

Mostly clean but underwhelming here. I still think that either Jacob or Max should gotten this spot. The USFS switched out the pairs late why not do it for the men's is beyond me.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Not bad Liam.
Go Nemola

 

[Jeanie19]

Mostly clean but underwhelming here. I still think that either Jacob or Max should gotten this spot. The USFS switched out the pairs late why not do it for the men's is beyond me.

I am glad they are not at this stressful competition. I feel bad for all the men here.

 

[saine]

Mostly clean but underwhelming here. I still think that either Jacob or Max should gotten this spot. The USFS switched out the pairs late why not do it for the men's is beyond me.

Because at that point they had named Liam on social media and it is not a good idea to start switching out skaters last minute. They shouldn't have switched out Pairs late and Liam rightfully kept his spot here.

 

[SmileHappy34]

The men are surprisingly decent. No major splatfest so far.

 

[TallyT]

That shirt says he wants to dress up but isn't quite ready for the full on sparkly splendour . I like it, but it doesn't stand out.

 

[labgoat]

I'm still getting young Robin Cousins energy from Nikollaj

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

5. Nikolaj MEMOLA ITA
FS: Scheherazade, Op. 35: "1. Largo e maestoso" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel & Leon Spierer; Scheherazade, Op. 35: "IlI. Andantino quasi allegretto" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leon Spierer, Berliner Philharmoniker & Lorin Maazel; choreo by Barbara Fusar-Poli


2Fe
4Lz+3T
3Aq (forwards, hangs on)
3Lo
CCSp3
4Lzq (steps out)
3A+1Eu+3S
3Lz+2A+SEQ
FSSp4
StSq3
ChSq1
CCoSp3

SP: 75.61 (8th)
FS: 155.41 (1st)
TOT: 231.02 (1st)

The quads were not working for Nikolaj in practice today, and that carried over into this program, but this was still a pretty strong skate by his standards. This program is very effective when he skates well, he has a lot of energy and so much performance in the step sequence and choreo sequence. His spins also were a lot better today, they were much faster than in the short program.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Not bad . A few mistakes but okay.

 

[Arriba627]

Ok Nikolaj. Make up for that 2F please. Whoa. Nice 4Lz. Nice 3 jump sequence. I hope he makes it to the Olys.

 

[FlossieH]

I really think they should have given them all another warm up. For some of these skaters, their score here could decide whether or not they go to the Olympics.

 

[Jeanie19]

Nikolaj. Nice outfit and program. Really good skate.