2024 Four Continents Men's Short Program

[icewhite]

Don't be...Yuma will be fine

Usually yes. Will he do the flip in the free?

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Guessing that Shaidarov is skating to the Matrix based on costume? LOL

 

[anonymoose_au]

Prayer circle for Boyang to throw the cat amongst the pigeons!

Bit bummed not to see Shoma here, hope he's doing OK>

 

[lileychristie]

"Could be a quadfest this"

Quadfest or splatfest? Don't jinx it Chris, don't jinx it...

 

[icewhite]

Jun has already adopted my new men's costume rules.

 

[skatingguy]

Prayer circle for Boyang to throw the cat amongst the pigeons!

Bit bummed not to see Shoma here, hope he's doing OK>

Shoma Uno should be fine - he wasn't selected for this event just like Sakamoto wasn't selected.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Usually yes. Will he do the flip in the free?

Yes, but he's actually been landing some in practice which is very promising. In comparison, he did the 4Lo during the Olympic season but had a much lower success rate in practice with them.

 

[rabidline]

Shoma Uno should be fine - he wasn't selected for this event just like Sakamoto wasn't selected.

They both declined to be selected for 4CC actually.

 

[elektra blue]

i'm smelling a Matrix program

 

[lileychristie]

Chris you've had four effing years to figure out how to pronounce Yuma's name. It's a hard g, not a soft g. Gah.

My pet peeve is commentators butchering names of the very top skaters. I understand that commentators won't have time to learn the pronunciation of the every skaters' names, but just the current top 5 of each discipline should be doable right?

"Keori Sakamoto" - please, she's 2 times world champion and Olympics bronze medalist, is it too much to ask to pronounce her name correctly

 

[skatingguy]

They both declined to be selected for 4CC actually.

Ah, okay - the press release made it sound like they weren't selected because they didn't need the ranking points.

 

[elektra blue]

spin, Misha, spin like you mean it

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

22. Mikhail SHAIDOROV
Clubbed to Death (Matrix)

4Lz (fall)
3A
CCSp4
4T+3T
FSSp4
StSq3
CCoSp3

SP: 81.76 (2nd)

 

[skatingguy]

Just a bit slow to get his free leg out on the quadruple Lutz, and then he catches the edge and goes down.

 

[YuBluByMe]

I wasn’t expecting the fall on the 4Lz. It’s been awhile since I seen Shaidorov make a mistake in the SP. But he came back strong with the back-half 4T combo. He still needs more expression, but he’s trying.

 

[lileychristie]

Ouch Shaidorov is usually very consistent, I might've jinxed him by putting him 2nd
But there's still the free! Fight Mikhail!!

Also I wonder if catching his coattails on his last camel position spin was intentional? It looked cool but it slowed him down

 

[anonymoose_au]

Here's something to make us feel old...Urmanov was the Olympic Champion almost 30 years ago now

Now that was a classy 4T-3T from Mikhail there

 

[elektra blue]

Urmanov is smiling

 

[elektra blue]

Viennaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa show the dancers what could have been!

 

[anonymoose_au]

LOL I still hear the chorus as "Ooooo PIANO!"

But yeah Boyang, show 'em you're new skating skills