2025 European Championships Men's Short Program

[TontoK]

I agree, and I absolutely love Kevin's skating.

When Kevin skates well, he's the most beautiful skater in the world.

When something goes wrong technically, he loses performance quality. Two elements in, and he let it go in this short program.

I don't know if it's the trauma of past events, a general lack of confidence and self-belief, or what. I don't have expectations that every competitor is going to skate flawlessly every time. But some have the ability to shake off errors and keep going. Kevin gives me the vibe of "I just want this over and get out of here."

I sincerely hope for a great LP to help him reset his mind. Who knows - he can skate a blinder and climb up the ranks. He's got a 15-point gap to silver, so it's theoretically possible, especially since many ahead of him weren't brilliant themselves in the short. Time for another Frenchman to "do an Adam."

 

[Ruthypegs]

When Kevin skates well, he's the most beautiful skater in the world.

When something goes wrong technically, he loses performance quality. Two elements in, and he let it go in this short program.

I don't know if it's the trauma of past events, a general lack of confidence and self-belief, or what. I don't have expectations that every competitor is going to skate flawlessly every time. But some have the ability to shake off errors and keep going. Kevin gives me the vibe of "I just want this over and get out of here."

I sincerely hope for a great LP to help him reset his mind. Who knows - he can skate a blinder and climb up the ranks. He's got a 15-point gap to silver, so it's theoretically possible, especially since many ahead of him weren't brilliant themselves in the short. Time for another Frenchman to "do an Adam."

I agree with you, but I do think that Kevin has made massive improvements this season in keeping the performance going when things don't go well.

However, yesterday, you're right, he did seem to lose spirit for a noticeable period before bringing the performance back for the remainder of the skate.

I hope he pulls off an "Adam SHF at Worlds" scenario tomorrow and rockets back up the standings.

 

[Skating91]

When Kevin skates well, he's the most beautiful skater in the world.

When something goes wrong technically, he loses performance quality. Two elements in, and he let it go in this short program.

I don't know if it's the trauma of past events, a general lack of confidence and self-belief, or what. I don't have expectations that every competitor is going to skate flawlessly every time. But some have the ability to shake off errors and keep going. Kevin gives me the vibe of "I just want this over and get out of here."

I sincerely hope for a great LP to help him reset his mind. Who knows - he can skate a blinder and climb up the ranks. He's got a 15-point gap to silver, so it's theoretically possible, especially since many ahead of him weren't brilliant themselves in the short. Time for another Frenchman to "do an Adam."

Kevin will still get a podium if he just stays on his feet and not pop jumps because the officials will look after him.

 

[museksk8r]

Standouts in the SP for me were Adam Siao Him Fa and Aleksandr Selevko and theirs are the SPs I will go back and rewatch again and again. I feel they have the best blend of technical and performance quality.

I respect Adam so much for the way he has bounced back from his injury setbacks this season to produce the SP skate he did here. While a superb jump technician like him could simply rely solely on the technical content the same way his other fellow jumpers in the sport do (Malinin, Egadze, Grassl, Shaidorov, Litvintsev), Siao Him Fa is a much better performer and more complete skater than all of them are. His skating packaging and style looks more expensive and has more to say emotionally than they do and I applaud him for not neglecting what the sport has to offer in the PCS.

Sasha’s musical choreography and emotional commitment to that SP is magnificent. The Axel becoming a double was performed cleanly and just appeared to be a fluke; he was performing triples cleanly in practice. Here’s hoping he can reproduce the magic he showed at this event last season in his home nation.

The performances of Kevin and Deniss were so sad to see in the SP. They both offer so much in the PCS that it truly breaks your heart not to see them hold it together technically. Kevin is such an emotional person and his skating career has truly been a rollercoaster going as high as 4th in the World, 4th in Europe, and 3rd in the GPF and as low as 11th in the World, 31st in Europe, and 6th in the GPF. He is one who would likely benefit from focusing on neurotherapy in psychological training. I’m still not understanding why Deniss is attempting the 4S in the SP if he can’t perform that jump in his sleep under pressure. It’s far too damning to perform a jump that’s most likely only going to be either a single or double in the SP and take an automatic zero point element.

 

[Andrina]

Litvintsev's program is a quintessence of bad taste.

 

[moonvine]

Just got done watching. The men really menned.