I was rewatching Javi's career, mainly Europeans... Fortunately Czech TV has all broadcasts in archive... I found the commentary interesting, it's always the same person commentating (+ one of three co-commentators). It felt like kind of a chronicle of Javi's career, development and development of figure skating as a whole. So I've decided to translate Czech commentary of Javi's performances from EC 2013-2018 and WC 2015-2016 into English.
Here you can find the full translations:
EC 2013 Zagreb,
EC 2014 Budapest,
EC 2015 Stockholm,
WC 2015 Shanghai,
EC 2016 Bratislava,
WC 2016 Boston,
EC 2017 Ostrava and
EC 2018 Moscow.
Here are some highlights, the most interesting or funniest parts:
EC 2013
SP
Com: And Javier Fernandez has just showed Plushenko how it’s done. And if Plushenko watched Fernandez’s SP somewhere backstage (which I’m not sure about, he quite probably left the whole arena as quickly as he left the ice) and now he must be thinking that it will be very difficult to catch Fernandez in the free. Great jumps, great musicality, maybe he stayed a little behind his standard in spins, but his standard is already very high, so he won’t get any too low marks, just maybe not that high... But you know if you jump a quad toe at the beginning, it gives you wings.
FP
Co-commentator: I think we’ve seen gold. And it’s great that he’s on par with figure skaters from overseas, with Chan, with Japanese skaters. I would not want to be a prophet but I think that if he goes on and still jumps so lightly and beautifully he’ll win the Olympics. Because to jump three quads sooo beautifully…
EC 2014
SP
Co-commentator Olga Žáková: I’ve been saying that Spain is slowly on its way to become a skating powerhouse. In all categories. They’ve risen incredibly in ice dance. They even had one junior lady, now she haven’t had the best results. But she has already been in top ten.
FP
Co-com: He’s a real master
(Javi’s cat-like save). And I have to say that it’s only a proof that he has mastered the quads so well – that’s what we’ve talked about: confidence. He doesn’t doubt that he jumps it and lands it. And then of course he solves even this crisis. Because why shouldn’t he. He doesn’t even think about it.
Com: Javier Fernandez is a Spanish miracle in skates. He has proved that the biggest talent can appear even in a country with absolutely no tradition.
EC 2015
SP
Quad toeloop. Well, it’s incredible what he managed to save. Triple lutz aaaand triple toe. Triple axel.
Javier Fernandez, European champion of last year and the year before and well, I’d even say the winner of today’s short
(three skaters skated after Javi). Again, we’ve seen a comparison of two styles but this time I mean something completely different. We saw two enormously concentrated Russians and maybe a bit too distracted Javier Fernandez – that showed in his two jumps at the beginning – but he was at ease and made so much better impression.
Recap
Co-com: Now, we’ll see his quad sal. He was totally off-axis, it’s unbelievable what he’s able to land and save. He’s indeed like a cat. And he has an exact feeling for landings. The whole world talks about his triple lutz technique because it’s a miracle he hasn’t broken his ankle during the take-offs but then again, it’s his style and with the muscles he has he’s able to jump it continuously like that and the lutz works.
Com: It’s very interesting what you’ve talked about. In times when he seems to be totally distracted and that he’s not paying attention at all, he gets all levels four – unlike the terribly concentrated men who look like they are racking their brains over what they have to do, what they can’t forget … and in the end they don’t do it.
Co-com: Indeed.
Com: That’s God-given talent.
FP
Com: Any remarks to his life and sports philosophy?
Tomas Verner: I’d like to thank Javier that at the question why he’s such a good skater he mentioned his coach in first place. It’s sometimes overlooked that the coach, whom we don’t see and who stand behind the boards, is actually a key figure of the team. When the coach doesn’t function well then the skater is all alone and no one from the last group would have made it so far without their coaches. So, we all should respect and cherish them.
WC 2015
SP
Com: Brian Orser again jumps triple axel and all other elements with his skater. We can only regret that we’ve seen both jumps – quad salchow and triple axel – immediately before the take-off. Because there’s something incredible about the jumps. They are done not only from footwork, in fact they are step sequences crowned with the jump as the last element. There’s no preparation whatsoever, only what is necessary given the physics.
Tomas Verner: Javier would have never learned to jump like that in Spain, he learnt jumps from Mr. Mishin, he visited him a lot and spent a lot of time in his summer camps. So, I think that Mr Mishin contributed a lot to his jumps.
Tomas Verner: Well, it will be tough against Yuzuru Hanyu. It will be close. But the first quad sal – I’d give him even more for that. He got almost the highest score possible, but it was a genius jump and I think you can’t execute this jump better at a competition.
FP
(Yuzuru shouts “Go Habi” in the K&C)
Com: And even Hanyu supports Habi, that’s how they pronounce it in Japan, they have some problems with it. So Javi Fernandez, Spain’s hope.
EC 2016
SP
Com: Michal Březina stays in the first place but maybe he can slowly begin to say goodbye to the first place because favourite number one takes the ice. It would have been a big shock if Russia hadn’t got all three medals in pairs and it would be an equally big shock if Fernandez didn’t get the gold here. Him and Patrick Chan are the only ones who’ve managed to keep up with the excellent Japanese skater Hanyu.
With this excellent short program Javier Fernandez paid tribute to a man celebrating his important anniversary - to Placido Domingo who celebrated his 75th birthday a week ago. Malaguena is performed also by another brilliant artist, guitarist Paco de Lucia. And also Javier Fernandez has grown into a brilliant performer.
Co-com: I think that he is exceptionally musical. (We see) a stepout – I’d forgive him even this. He is a figure skater who feels the music internally. He can use every nuance of the music, experience it and show it – as it should be. Also, the choice of music fits him perfectly. Everything is so beautiful, costume, totally elegant for him; he’s an amazing skater. The quad toe was textbook. I hope they repeat it.
Com: Meanwhile they’ve already repeated it. Here are some more great moments, though. I think that a golden age of men’s skating begins. As we’ve seen a golden era of ice dance in the last two Olympic cycles thanks to an amazing rivalry and cooperation at the same time of a Canadian and an American team, we have the same now in men singles. Brian Orser coaches Javier Fernandez as well as Yuzuru Hanyu and they are developing and growing up alongside each other so much that the ISU is rumoured to have been thinking what to do with it, how to prevent the two of them from winning all the time. Because they are so much ahead of their rivals… 102 points. No-one can top this.
FP
Com: Looks like Fernandez could become the first European to break the 200-point barrier in the free and 300-point barrier in total, after he’s already got over 100 points in the short as the first European.
Co-com: In my opinion he should get it.
Com: And it’s there! 302,7. It’s basically decided. Javier Fernandez with a giant lead of sixty points! That’s unimaginable. Sixty points ahead of Alexei Bychenko who maybe thinks in vain what he’d have to do to beat Fernandez, well to come closer to him at least
Com: Fernandez is a cutie-pie. These eyes, the smile. And despite all these results so humble, it’s incredible.
WC 2016
SP
Com: 98,5 even with the fall. No words needed.
Co-com: A fall doesn’t always stand in your way to the win.
Com: But Hanyu might stand in your way to the win. 
And we have also other great athletes here.
As for example Frank Caroll
(Denis Ten takes the ice).
FP
Quad toe – but textbook! Quad sal – triple toe! Triple axel – double toe. Quad sal! Triple flip – triple sal. Triple axel. Triple lutz. Triple loop!
Silence, silence, silence.
Co-commentator Kateřina Kamberská: Brian Orser gets the gold.
Com: This championships will be remembered as a championships with unheard-of performances. After a brilliant ice-dance competition we were a bit worried that men don’t live up to it. But after Yuzuru Hanyu’s short program here’s the continuation. A
nd indeed, it’s Brian Orser’s triumph who has brought up an amazing lyrical skater for the short and an amazing entertainer for the free.
Co-com: Javi really unites technical difficulty and entertainment. His performance is not only about having the (typical) costume or only doing the (typical) moves, choreography. During his performance he IS Sinatra. He lives the story and on top of that he jumps without any hesitation. This was the absolute best what we’ve seen today.
Com: That was fun – says Brian Orser. These three words express the approach of the team. They skate exceptional programs and it’s fun for them. And thankfully it’s also fun for us. 315 points. With all due respect to Patrick Chan, Javier Fernandez is already the World champion.
Com: We have to say that it’s not only about the three quads. The three quads are in programs that are of the highest quality overall, with the most difficult transitions and the best artistic performance. Everything together is what’s lead to the giant leap forward.
Gala
Javier Fernandez is quite probably the most versatile current skater. Hanyu might feel the music a tiny bit better and express the artistry, he also gets slightly better technical marks when he’s on.
But Fernandez is the one who can express comedy, drama and also lyrical programs. :luv17:
EC 2017
SP
And here he is. Javier Fernandez. Great guy. Four medals in a row from world championships, two last of them gold, four golds from EC, but he’s still such a normal boy.
Co-commentator Kateřina Kamberská: He is incredibly humble. He certainly knows what he’s achieved. He’s aware of it, you can see it in his confident movements on the ice. But we can see this humbleness in world champions, Olympic winners. The person themselves knows how much effort it takes and without humility you can’t achieve these results and not at all repeatedly. We could maybe find a few
(without humility) who have won once. But they never manage to repeat these results. Only those who are humble to work can stay at the top for a long time. And it applies not only to sport.
Com:
There’s a bit of a true Spanish toreador in Javier Fernandez because even corrida is a theatre in an arena. And figure skating is also theatre in an arena, a theatre that’s physically demanding, sometimes also risky, often painful and the best one has to convince the spectators and the critics that it’s just an easy and elegant entertainment. All young skaters want to be like Javier Fernandez and I think all coaches want to be like Brian Orser and have the privilege to train such talents as Fernandez and not only him, as Hanyu and others and enjoy their successes with them. Even though it’s also hard work for the coaches, the reward is priceless.
Co-com:
When you take a look at the expression Javier has on his face – everything is perfect. He didn’t smile even once during the short because it doesn’t fit the music. And immediately after he finishes, he grins from ear to ear. And you can see that (the not smiling) is not because he’s so concentrated, it’s how he feels the music. They trained even the tiniest details in front of a mirror. Even the gestures with fingers that we’ve seen, it’s training, training, training and hours and hours of work, work in front of a mirror, work with a choreographer, work with ballet dancers. For me this is one of the highlights of figure skating in general. In my opinion that’s how it should look like.
FP:
He’s a god on ice, however he’s a bit mischievous god. He’s probably hurt himself with the fall. Even though the fall he skated with commitment, on the other hand maybe a bit unconcentrated. But he certainly skated for the spectators, for the judges and for all TV spectators
Interview with Tomáš Verner:
T: Javi, you’ve just finished your competition. You may not realize it but there are only two people in the history of figure skating who did win Europeans five time in a row. It’s you and former Czechoslovakian skater Ondrej Nepela. Congratulations.
J: Thank you so much.
T: Okay, history’s been made. We loved your program, it looked like a show program, but you were not super happy at the end. Why?
J: Because everything in my body hurts right now. Everything hurts so much.
(Tomáš translated it with an addition: My butt hurts so much that I have to ice it)
Com:
Without a doubt we’ve seen an amazing championship, very attractive and thrilling pairs and ladies’ competition, amazing performance of French ice dancers. But only today we can talk about a true figure skating legend. We should be overjoyed that Ostrava had the opportunity to see Javier Fernandez who’s become one of the best European skaters in history.
Gala:
Javi: Good afternoon everybody, I hope you are enjoying this amazing show.
Javi: It’s almost about to finish. Almost about to finish. And I have to say I am so sorry I cannot skate today because of the fall in the free program. And I have to take care of myself and cannot perform for you today.
Com: Incredible, Javier Fernandez came to say he won’t skate and some spectators in the arena are standing up and giving him a standing ovation. He’s
that respected.
EC 2018
SP
Co-commentator Kateřina Kamberská: I’ll go back to the tactical work of Brian Orser. First, he didn’t push him to do the quads, it’s true that it was a different situation back then, he’d probably have to approach it differently nowadays. The second thing is both of them have understood very well that to learn other three quads at his age is nonsense, that it would lead only to an injury. So, they’ve began to use, let’s say talent for comedy – but when you’ll think about his last years’ short with Spanish music it was something totally different – so maybe we should talk about talent for drama or acting and skating skills. And they work with what he’s already learnt.
He’s not learning anything new, more or less, and he probably won’t learn anything new, but he can perfectly sell what he knows. And truth be told this is wonderful skating and finally with two quads we’ve been waiting for. And it doesn’t matter that they are the so-called easier quads. This is a complex program. Beautiful spins, centred. Step sequence very nice, in rhythm.
And I know that I’m repeating myself, but I have to say it, Javier is currently the only skater, who can do funny and also serious programs. And he does them absolutely perfectly. I think that his exhibition programs are always the highlight, he can bring the entire arena to their feet, 30.000 people, without any problem.
FP
Even Russian journalists basically don’t doubt that he’ll win for the sixth time. Who of the Russians can pose the biggest threat to Fernandez?
Co-commentator Olga Žáková: Kolyada. He was third at the GPF after all. He could… but I don’t think he’ll actually pose a threat to my beloved Fernandez.
Com: Mikhail Kolyada finished his skate, he’s in the first place, but the fight for medal didn’t go as planned. He fights with all his might, he goes for the maximum difficulty. But precisely this is the difference between the best skaters and those who are not the best yet. They have to risk. (I’d compare it with our snowboarder Ester Ledecká. When she sets off on the route her rivals keep up with her at the beginning. But in order to keep up with her they risk, then make mistakes and Ledecká wins. And this applies to Kolyada and to other rivals of Javier Fernandez in Europe).
Co-com: And I like that his jumps come out of nowhere, that he jumps without long preparations.
Com: Well, that’s a catastrophe for a commentator because with every other skater you know when the jump comes, but not with Fernandez, it can be anytime.
), US and Canadian skaters are of course getting ready for their nationals, but Brian does not have main responsibility for many of them. And Hanyu is probably only just more or less beginning his training after the injury break - if he is in Toronto yet at all (does anyone know??).
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...though I'm usually not translating into English. I really tried to convey the emotions of the commentators, their genuine admiration and switching from the "cold" Javier Fernandez to Javi and "my beloved Fernandez" 
