2025 World Championships Men's Short Program

[Paulipau]

Well ate didn't he?

 

[Karoltyna]

Judges dear, whatever you plan to give him, it's not enough... PCS should be like 12?

 

[labgoat]

I have been silent because these crazy jumps scare me - I just hold my breath and hope they land safely

 

[Seven Sisters]

The Japanese flag gets waved for Yuma as well. Well done!

 

[mirai4life]

YUMA IS MY LEADER

I DONT CARE

 

[Arigato]

Now I would be proud of that, man.

 

[discodisco]

Incredible Ilia, 64.21 TES in the short is mind-boggling and he performed outside of the jumps really well too. And it looked like he wasn't even pushing himself all that hard.

I agree that he actually looks quite slow... I just want to see one crossover or holding of a nice pure Eege so you can really examine their quality in the same way that you can do with Kagiyama.

Just watch the two back to back and you can see the incredible difference in the edge quality - whether that's takeoffs, landings, overall speed, use of the knee and ankle, all that stuff that people don't really realize are what make up good skating skills. Kagiyama has it and Malinin does not, although he has tons of other qualities in spades

 

[yelyoh]

When Yuma landed that 4Sal my cat meowed because it takes one to know one. He will be very close to Iila, This is not over.

 

[EdgeCall]

Yuma has no plans to go away without a fight!

Come on, judges, put him over 100 too so we can at least pretend we'll have a competition.

 

[yuumagical]

A happy Yuma and his beautiful triple axel gives me life

 

[RatedPG]

I spoke too soon!!
I actually can’t believe Ilia scored 46 in PCS. I like him. But, I guess we are in USA

However, Yuma was glorious and if PCS was awarded correctly, they should be close. If Ilia is 46 in PCS, Yuma should be 48

 

[TontoK]

Oh, I love this.

Two guys so clearly ahead of the rest of the field. Back to back. Full on. No holding back.

Amazing. Really amazing.

 

[Tav]

Wow, Yuma! That was incredible, even after that incredible short by Ilia!!!

 

[Kris135]

Beautiful program but I think that unless he starts adding harder jumps he not going able to catch Ilia and soon Misha that is just the plain facts.

 

[YuBluByMe]

Scary air positions aside, that was amazing. I hope the gap is very close. He held up to the pressure nicely.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Ah, the Ina Bauer is also so pretty And how did he land the 4S on an outside edge after being so off-axis?

 

[Demandred]

How the hell did Yuma land perfectly that sachow which was way off axis, unbelievable stuff. Amazing he was able to deliver this flawless program after Ilia's skate.

 

[Arigato]

There you go!

 

[Dreamer57]

He was doing a Quad Axel triple toe combo in practice this week so I think he can.

I saw it. I guess he's saving it for the free?

Misha in top 3 is wonderful. Yuma 107

 

[Kris135]

Andrew is 8th so if this holds we should keep the three spots.