2015 Europeans Men's Short Program Jan 28

[alebi]

Kovtun quads deserve all -3... bad positions, no steps and here not even good flows... :disapp: (he also lost the combo..)

 

[LittleLotte29]

No... Poor Max. Beaten by stress one more time.

 

[sequinsgalore]

Maxim KOVTUN (RUS)

Music: Bolero by Maurice Ravel

Black leather draped costume

4S+COMBO - stepout, hands down, no combo
4T - hand down
3A
CSSp
StSq
CCoSp3p
FUSp

Mistakes on both quads and no combo is going to cost him a lot

SP: 40.27+37.94 = 78.21, 2nd (out of 26)

 

[satine]

TES almost 40 atm

 

[text_skate]

40 on TES???

 

[sabinfire]

Probably will still move into 1st.

 

[LittleLotte29]

What happened with TES???

 

[Alchamei]

I don't dislike Kovtun so much... But I dislike this program.

 

[silverfoxes]

Hallelujah. (I don't hate Maxim, but I like the rest of this group a lot more.)

 

[Ava Moore]

Menshov's voodoo dolls at work? :scratch:

 

[Interspectator]

looks like he rotated the quads though. Good for him. Other than that...:hopelessness:

 

[Florencito]

Javier might go into the FS with a big lead. Can't watch :hopelessness:

 

[Hanmgse]

Oh great my stream died

 

[satine]

:disapp:

Sergei VORONOV ..........81.06 (41.53+39.53)
Maxim KOVTUN ..........78.21 (40.27+37.94)
Florent AMODIO ...........74.06 (38.09+35.97)
Alexei BYCHENKO ..........73.63 (41.52+32.11)
Daniel SAMOHIN ...........72.65 (42.08+30.57)
Adian PITKEEV ..............69.78 (39.28+31.50)
Alexander MAJOROV ......68.10 (35.82+33.28)
Ivan RIGHINI ................67.45 (35.02+33.43)
Phillip HARRIS ...............65.16 (36.62+28.54)
Franz STREUBEL ...........64.45 (35.38+29.07)
Yaroslav PANIOT ..........63.25 (36.15+27.10)
Valtter VIRTANEN .........58.31 (29.82+28.49)
Petr COUFAL ................57.47 (29.00+29.47)
Pavel KASKA ................56.83 (30.30+26.53)
Patrick MYZYK .............56.12 (26.76+29.36)
Pavel IGNATENKO .........55.79 (28.64+28.15)
Sondre ODDVOLL BOE ....55.73 (28.76+26.97)
Javier RAYA .................53.80 (26.88+27.92)
Justus STRID ...............53.28 (27.93+26.35)
Larry LOUPOLOVER .......51.01 (27.97+23.04)
Slavik HAYRAPETYAN ....48.93 (25.22+24.71)
Stephane WALKER .......48.86 (22.67 + 26.19)
Engin Ali ARTAN ...........48.76 (26.58+22.18)
Samuel KOPPEL ...........46.36 (22.15+24.21)
Marco KLEPOCH ...........44.81 (21.38+24.43)
Manuel KOLL................43.56 (20.92+23.64)
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Armen AGAIAN .............WD
Kristof FORGO ..............WD
Zoltan KELEMEN ...........WD

 

[Frenchie]

Kovtun has the same posture and (lack of) choreography regardless if he's skating to Boléro, Muse, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia or Tchaikovsky.
It wouldn't annoy me that much if he didn't get those huge PCS because of his huge jumps.

 

[Alchamei]

78.21! Voronov still is in the lead!

 

[LittleLotte29]

2nd, but loses not even 3 points to Sergei. Go Javi!

 

[JasonLover]

gooooooooooooo jjjaaaavvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiii

 

[viennaskater]

Kovtun always looks like he is about to go to the dentist, rather than skating a programme. Looks grim and tentative all the time. Not keen on him.

 

[WeakAnkles]

Apparently it is still gift giving time in Sweden... Remember to send thank you notes Mr Maxim.