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Now I can get very nervous for John. To skate for a possible medal! I hope Aleksa and Matthew skate better in the free. And of course that Roman doesn’t break my heart tomorrow.
2025 Canadian Nationals: SR Men's Short Program | Jan 17, 2025
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I live in hope to see that day, lol. This was a pretty good start for him here. The axel is always his iffiest jump, and you could see how cautious he was going into it. Everything else was good. The Quad sal was beautiful — it looked like a triple. His toe point in the spins always makes me giddy with happiness.
Really nice to see another guy do a quad, and a triple axel. Go John Kim.
Romsky was amazing!! 
Yes, he fell on his 3A, but, at least he went for it and this kind of skate alongside his SP from Challenge shows he is the best candidate to send to Senior Worlds. He is the best SP skater from Canada and that is what is required to secure a spot to the Olympics. At Worlds, with these skates, he will be solidly in the 13-18 flight of skaters. If he lands all three jumping elements, he can even be in the 7-12 flight, like last season. Then, after SP, Roman can Romsky the free skate down to 24th place with pops and falls
Aleksa has basically eliminated himself, because I have low confidence he can place top 24 at Worlds. He would have to land all three jumping elements cleanly for this to happen, as he has low PCS, and that is a difficult feat to accomplish.
Yes, he fell on his 3A, but, at least he went for it and this kind of skate alongside his SP from Challenge shows he is the best candidate to send to Senior Worlds. He is the best SP skater from Canada and that is what is required to secure a spot to the Olympics. At Worlds, with these skates, he will be solidly in the 13-18 flight of skaters. If he lands all three jumping elements, he can even be in the 7-12 flight, like last season. Then, after SP, Roman can Romsky the free skate down to 24th place with pops and falls
Aleksa has basically eliminated himself, because I have low confidence he can place top 24 at Worlds. He would have to land all three jumping elements cleanly for this to happen, as he has low PCS, and that is a difficult feat to accomplish.
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Well you know everyone tried. Aleksa was a disappointment but he was not well. I still think all things being equal and if everyone skated their best Roman is the easy choice but he is darn inconsistent. The judges in Canada are stingy A clean Roman should be say mid 90's. remember Keegan did that and he was not as good at spins or pcs. The Canadian judges certainly are not like the USA where they give out points like there is no tomorrow. However, the free skate is another day. With such a weak field Aleksa could move up and win if Roman totallly crashess which sadly is not impossiblle (implodes). John and Anthony are very young and can vulnerable and Anthony has little content no triple axell and even is lutz isn't always there. That being said a one fall and a stumble Roman would still be the best choice.
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I had an enjoyable time watching the men. Obviously not everything went as they would wish, but that's figure skating for you. I always love watching Bruce and Anthony as well as many skaters I never see elsewhere. Glad to see Roman doing well (except for the 3A). Let's hope he doesn't start menning in the Free as so often happens (I am in love with that verb, which of course does not exist but in het FS World everybody know what it means! it can be used as a noun too!). I hadn't seen Edrian in quite some time, that was nice too even if he didn't do so well. I was so glad Anthony didn't try a 3A here as he's almost there, but just not yet. And his 2A is a thing of beauty, so high!
I just loved how happy Roman looked after his short. We unfortunately, do not see that from him often enough. Let's hope we see him as happy after the free. I agree that even with the fall he was scored low. He should be more then 4 points ahead of Anthony.
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I looked at the protocols...
Those with big jumps quads and triple axels almost ALL got q or carrots... Anthony scored high because his jumps were rotated. Roman fell on the 3a but it was also < which downdraded its base value, got minus 5 deduction in GOE and then a minus 1 for the Fall. Final score once factoring the penalty is 2.20. Anthony's 2a earned him 4.05. The quad salchow also had a q so GOE was lowered. Roman's combo was a bit less impressive than Anthony... Roman doesn't do a jumping pass in the bonus zone. Roman's spins are stellar but Anthony's spins are even better. So there's that for the tech stuff...
The main factor of why Roman is not much more ahead of Anthony is PCS. With the fall, the judges applied the deduction. Anthony gave a full on performance and got rewarded. I think Roman has a much higher ceiling of course, but with strict judges, you have to rotate and land everything... so sometimes, lower BV works out best.
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It is still figure skating...
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Although I have never seen him live, he has the IT factor. He could be Canada's Paul Wylie - drive you nuts missing elements and finishing up with a masterful term paper to win the day.
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See Paul Wylie comment below - yes I was a Paul uberfan - everyone thought I was crazy
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Truth!
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He withdrew due to injury
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https://youtu.be/kIfalvPqoyc?si=-fImfX-nv5x64I1c (Roman Sadovsky of Canada) SP at Canadian National Championships
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https://youtu.be/4P0u5BexB70?si=SSfL8CApYTt9tkrt (Anthony Paradis; SP)
Yes, Anthony lucked out a bit with the strict technical caller. And I have to disagree with the caller on Roman's quad sal — that jump was big and easy and didn't look at all under.
Just across the board I've thought the judges have been stingy with the GOE this nationals so far in all disciplines. So much for nationals inflation!
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That will change with the US nats though.
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This is where I get to say I told you so…
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https://youtu.be/7nDQ5TEeB5I?si=ponKlFBdn3pFbiJb (Maddie Schizas, FP to Butterfly Lovers a new FP) 1st place
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