Men's Free Skate, Sat. 11/19 at 7:30 am EST

[Nadine]

My God, Nan Song has truly written his name on the world stage ~ BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!

I can easily see him winning a World medal this year, as well as an Olympic Medal, mayhap even gold!

He has everything, TWO CONSISTENT QUADS, *NO* FALLS, everything. And he has a little over two more years until the next Olympics, which means he can only get better! He's young, talented, fierce, determined, and has the most consistent quads out of ALL the men skating today.

I knew he was special when I first laid eyes on him at SA last year, in that bright yellow shirt and black pants.

 

[demarinis5]

Loved Adam's program. To bad he won't medal. Song did a great job!

 

[Kinga]

Any word on what happened to Kevin Reynolds that caused him to withdraw?

Italian commentators said that he had stomach problems.

 

[bigsisjiejie]

Nan Song's going to end up with the silver medal, good for him! Maybe GPF?

 

[Violet Bliss]

Something wrong with Paris water? For the ice and the stomach.

 

[Spun Silver]

Oh my goodness. That's Patrick's worst skate of the season. Song could win this.

He had at least two doubles and big step outs as well as a fall on FW.

Who put oil on the ice???

 

[alexeifan]

Amazing how Chan does 2 quads, then falls on nothing, guess cuz he's always so deep on his edges. Beautiful program anyway.

 

[Nadine]

This music always makes me misty-eyed and think of Zhenya and his magnificent performance to this during the 2009/10 Olympic season.

And Patrick Chan does justice to the music as well (way better than his SP imho), he really does have it all, but he *needs* to land the jumps.

A true champion does not fall, as Sonja Henie used to say "a fall is the kiss of death", as it should be...

 

[ImaginaryPogue]

Song winning would put him in the GPF over Kozuka.

 

[ImaginaryPogue]

Nope, judges had Patrick in first.

 

[sequinsgalore]

Michal Brezina

3A - nice
3F+3T - stepout
2S
FSSp
CiSt
3A+2T
3F - nice
3Lo
3Lz
2A - stepout
CCoSp - a bit slow
ChSt
CSSp

No quads...

 

[Violet Bliss]

Maybe everyone is a little sick?

 

[sorcerer]

Silver is enough for Song because of the second tie breaker. He goes to GPF.

 

[bigsisjiejie]

Nan Song leads this pack on TES. Now he just needs to work hard on the PCS side. Maybe with coach/choreographer outside China.

 

[Spun Silver]

Actually that happened before. Weren't all the Japanese skaters sick at one event? But here it was everyone except Song!

 

[Violet Bliss]

Woot for Nan Song!

for Oda.

Get well Kevin. Patrick too if he's not so well from the way he looked yesterday. Haven't seen him yet today.

 

[ImaginaryPogue]

Silver is enough for Song because of the second tie breaker. He goes to GPF.

?Not sure. Kozuka has the exact same medals as he does but higher scores, right?

So that means Chan, Brezina, Takahashi, Kozuka for sure, then Fernandez, Abbott, and Song fighting out for the last two slots.

 

[Okami]

Actually that happened before. Weren't all the Japanese skaters sick at one event? But here it was everyone except Song!

Yes, at GPF 2006. Also Dan Zhang caught the bug back then.

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

Much of the scoring I've seen is on partial credit.

 

[demarinis5]

Congratulations to Patrick, Song and Michal and a shout out to Adam!

Seems like everyone was a little off today except Song. He proved he is
not the new kid on the block, he is a contender.