Javi session #2 of the day completed: afternoon practice on the main rink, soon after we made it out to the arena from Red square. The motto we were repeating was "Who are you and what have you done with Javier Fernandez?" We have never seen Javi attempt so many quads in a single practice session. There must have been at least 8 of the sal and 6-7 of the toes. Not all of them successful by any means. There were a few pops on the 4S and a fall on the 4T. But he kept going on and on with the attempts this time, not his usual thing of moving on after a couple of relatively successful tries. Even more unusual that he was still going at them after the runthrough even though he was last in the music rotation. He looked quite tired towards the end. It seemed like he wanted to make up for the morning session he missed because of the LaLiga football thing. But he was also a little all over the place in between the jumps, tripping slightly or losing his balance a few times. Yet he was relaxed throughout, even dancing along to Bychenko's music, smiling a lot. And then bizarrely he found some small piece of his more and more worn boot hanging off or something which he was trying to tear off. He was laughing even about that too. Brian wasn't there by the way, so Javi was on his own, just a couple of federation people standing by the boards to watch over his tissue box. Brian must be either still on his way from Vancouver or knocked out in his hotel room after the travel.
And after that a very long photo session where Javi was making some funny faces which we couldn't make sense of from the other side of the rink. Turns out he was imitating Christiano Ronaldo! 
(tureis not only has a way with the words, but also a keen artistic eye!).
We are also quite pleased that 5/7 men's practices are in the main rink.
Javi did his FS this time. He was first in the music rotation so he only had 6 minutes before his music was on. He got through all of his jumps except the quads in the usual order beautifully, starting with the 3Lo, 3Lz, 3F-1Lo-3S and a glorious 3A-2T with one arm behind his back on the 2nd half of the combo. Then it was time for his runthrough and he just marked all of his quads but went for all the other jumps. He stumbled out of his first 3A but everything else was perfect. Afterwards Brian gave Javi some comments about the 3A combo and made him redo it, turning out beautifully again. Then it was time for the quads, and again both the 4T and the 4S+3T were gorgeous on the first attempt. Then Javi went on to do a few more 4S attempts and fell on the first and popped two more. After some more consultation with Brian it worked well again. Javi took the last few minutes to work on his SP step sequence, and finally some edge exercises, which were really interesting to see as Brian explained what steps he wanted Javi to do and then Javi glided through them beautifully. Has Brian been told I wonder that Javi had issues tripping all over the place yesterday? 
He left a couple of minutes early but was still signing autographs when the following practice group was done with warmup and started their runthroughs. The Spanish federation woman had to come and usher him away. Mens SP tomorrow!!!! :eeking:
The program was great again despite the minor mistake on the sal - still a bit amazed about the level 3 steps (the all female panel was strict!). The crowd loved it despite the disappointment with Kolyada. Overall we were very pleased with the top 3 - Aliev and Vasiljevs are among favourites.
