2022 Olympics: Men's Free Skate

[MarkinBerkeley]

Beautiful performance from Jason - I think the doubled sal was the only mistake?

Yeah, but I didn't even realize it was a mistake at first. Overall, definitely his best skate ever. Just wonderful.

 

[MarkinBerkeley]

Jason would have taken the lead if not for that doubled Salchow; unfortunate!

Fortunately, it didn't cost him a bronze medal, as he was too far behind 3rd place.

 

[MarkinBerkeley]

Yes, he did.

Career best. Missed the 3S but who cares?

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Career best. Missed the 3S but who cares?

The 3S did cost him a 4th place finish, but really with the top 3 so far ahead of everyone else, it wouldn't have made a difference.
The Brown arguably should have come 5th, and Cha 4th, IMO. Hanyu's 2nd half of his FS was great but the PCS was essentially at maximum threshold 90.44 with 90.50 as the max, and overscored on IN higher than allowed, and his FS was performed better at Japanese Nationals. Of course in the SP, he got exceedingly PCS for such a major error. As much as there are those who gripe that Hanyu is constantly shafted by the ISU - they were rather generous to him here letting him get 4th and 90 PCS with two falls - again, a la 2014.

I'll happily eat my words though, previously stating that Jason was incapable of such a high finish at the Olympics - which could have been 4th had he gotten the salchow. The point is he delivered two pretty much clean programs (at least it was a double salchow, so it wasn't an "error" so much as not maxing out). Kinda weird but amazing that both US men really only just gave up points on their euler series and that was their only error across the event.

Although Chen getting a V on his spin was a blip too. Interesting how the two de facto judges' faves, Chen and Hanyu, got nailed for that. (They were the only ones in the top 17 to get hit with that tech call, and then Mozalev and Litvintsev in 18th and 19th place got a V call.)

 

[ramurphy2005]

Although Chen getting a V on his spin was a blip too. Interesting how the two de facto judges' faves, Chen and Hanyu, got nailed for that. (They were the only ones in the top 17 to get hit with that tech call, and then Mozalev and Litvintsev in 18th and 19th place got a V call.)

I saw someone joke on Twitter after the protocols came out that Nathan cared more about starting his choreo seq on time rather than worrying about his spin levels, lol.

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

I saw someone joke on Twitter after the protocols came out that Nathan cared more about starting his choreo seq on time rather than worrying about his spin levels, lol.

I mean it makes sense. He has won by that point and he’d probably get better marks for IN. More judges should have dinged him for the obvious stumble in the choreo sequence. But it’s still a +2 from me.

Anyways, makes no difference given he won gold by 12.55 points and could have given up a whopping 49.38 points and still gotten a medal.

 

[reader3]

So many months later and I still get chills from NC's free skate program, especially the first half: https://twitter.com/Olympics/status...UPRbz4QaRtrDiaH6Kt2S_T7QFBeGh0VgCpaPaU-THrTzY