2022 U.S. Nationals: Senior Men's Free Skate

[invisiblespiral]

Well, this just got interesting.

Awesome FS from Ilia!

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

WHOAAAA.... that was insane!!!

 

[16Olympics]

Got to hand it to Ilia. He delivered.

 

[sequinsgalore]

13 Ilia Malinin

Music: "Nobody Knows" by Autograf; "Golden Age" by Woodkid

Dark blue shirt with gold swirls, black pants

4Lz
4T
3A
4S
FCCoSp3
StSq4
4T+1Eu+3S
3Lz+2Lo
3Lz+3T
FSSp4
ChSq
CCoSp4

Wow, wonderful skate! Should take the lead and make things interesting...

FS: 115.44+83.58 = 199.02, 302.48, 1/12

 

[Hyena]

So Ilia is going to place 2nd (at least, most likely) and we're going to have a 2014 Polina Edmunds situation. Amazing job to Ilia. I don't envy the selection committee at all because I understand every possible team decision they could make.

 

[ruffledgrouse]

Good for you, Ilia! Fantastic!

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Loooove it! Silver for Ilia?

 

[elektra blue]

and he drilled the ice again he was great! and now let the GS war begin!

 

[Lamente Ariane]

That was a nice jump drill with no performance or musical interpretation whatsoever. Still, I'll be interested to see Ilia work on the other aspects of his skating in the future.

 

[shan22044]

Oh snap, that score!

 

[cathlen]

I love jump fests when they are clean like this

 

[Nathan13]

POP THE POPCORN Y'ALL

 

[Anni234]

ok WOW

 

[YuBluByMe]

Yeah! This is what I’m talking about. Make them sweat! Where that popcorn emoji at?

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Love how Ilia broke the competition. Makes the USFS decision really hard.

He did exactly what he needed to do to put himself in Olympic contention.

 

[xabia]

But who gave Ilia that crap music? He need something to lift up his fantastic skating.

 

[Weathergal]

Wow Ilia NAILED IT!!! I had been enjoying watching him in juniors, and his SP didn't really surprise me. But I didn't think he'd hold it together for the FS. Glad to be wrong about that.

 

[Jeanie19]

Ilia. Clean skate. Great quads.

 

[16Olympics]

Ilia is the US' answer to Yuma for the next 4 years.

 

[Jammers]

WOW!!!!