2025 Skate America Men's Free Skate

[labgoat]

At least they aren’t sending skaters out with numbers to hold up.

 

[Seven Sisters]

A sign in the audience, hastily created—“Bring back 6.0”

 

[auser]

'Technical issues'...

How long has it been???????

Good grief. No back up system? Tisk Tisk

 

[FlossieH]

Finally!!!

 

[4everchan]

did he say 17 minutes ?

 

[Isk]

He has no chance to skate for Italy at the Olympics... I don't think it's about that for him.... if he had wanted to be an Olympian, he might have considered sticking to ice dance as he excelled in that discipline and clearly, he doesn't have a triple axel nor a stable quad so...

Yeah, he has not a chance. He shares a coach with Memola, who happens to be Memola's mom.

 

[TallyT]

This is the most Lake Placid thing to ever happen (aside from Andrei Lutoi stealing a car and driving it drunk and then getting abandoned by the Russian team in jail), apparently the WiFi is down within the building as well and they may be resetting the entire network to try and fix the problem

Didn't someone (was it you?) say that Lake Placid is cursed?

And if they don't fix the tech, are they gonna do this for every skater?

 

[FlossieH]

did he say 17 minutes ?

Yes.

 

[lileychristie]

Wait there's no extra warm ups? Or is it just for the skaters after Daiwei?

 

[labgoat]

This is the most Lake Placid thing to ever happen (aside from Andrei Lutoi stealing a car and driving it drunk and then getting abandoned by the Russian team in jail), apparently the WiFi is down within the building as well and they may be resetting the entire network to try and fix the problem

The ghost of Sergei Grinkov is haunting us...or Oleg Protopopov

 

[Jeanie19]

did he say 17 minutes ?

It felt like an hour. Poor Dai.

 

[labgoat]

Didn't someone (was it you?) say that Lake Placid is cursed?

I was one of the ones who said it is cursed

 

[jgg220]

A sign in the audience, hastily created—“Bring back 6.0”

They could have just used Post-It notes like some Challenger event a couple or years ago.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

2. Daiwei DAI CHN
FS: "Clouds, The Mind on the (Re) Wind" by Ezio Bosso; choreo by Nikolai Moroshkin

4Tq (hangs on)
3T+3T
2A(forwards)+2A+SEQ
3A (steps out)
CCSp4
3Lz<< (falls)
3S+2T
3Lo<< (falls)
FCCoSp4
StSq2
CCoSp4
ChSq1

SP: 64.98 (11th)
FS: 125.92 (2nd)
TOT: 190.90 (1st)

Skating under the most bizarre circumstances, Daiwei has a mixed free skate, he got the quad done but struggled on some of the other jumps. This program is really gorgeous music and his basic skating is so strong. He doesn't get nearly enough points for his skating skills. I'm going to chalk those errors up to the 17-minute (!!!!!!!!!!!) wait he had before this program.

 

[FlossieH]

They are all dying at the end. Fell apart a bit in the middle, but I blame the long delay.

 

[4everchan]

I wonder if the delay compromised Dawei's performance

 

[bartlebooth]

Dying on the ice is quite the trend.

 

[Jeanie19]

Dai. Nice blue shirt. Really nice program. Give him all the points and a plus 10 for being on the ice forever.

 

[Kris135]

He did have mistakes but who knows how that endless delay effecting him.

 

[TallyT]

I wonder if the delay compromised Dawei's performance

I think everyone is thinking that, including Ted. That was so rough on him.