So as promised I'm posting the translation of the Czech TV commentary into English.
Full translation (+ the previous ones) is
here.
The co-commentator
(the same for SP and FP) has been saying all these years that she knows Brian and only now she revealed that she knew Javi personally, too.
(since 2004...)
I tried to find some highlights but the whole commentary is great and interesting, so this might be a bit long even after a careful selection
SP
Com: Brian Orser smiles and Javier Fernandez even though he’s quite out of breath can be happy about the way he’s managed this goodbye-competition so far. He probably won’t overtake Kolyada. The level of Kolyada’s skate… Here were two small mistakes, well a bigger mistake at the axel, one smaller mistake in the combination. Oh? The salchow is according to the tech panel underrotated? So, that’s third mistake and that’s a bit too much to threaten Kolyada. But Kolyada won’t have a comfortable lead because the
(Javi’s) PCS will be huge, of course, and it should bring Fernandez closer to him, second place without a doubt.
We witness a historic moment. I think that since Plushenko’s goodbye – and that was a bit weird – this is the biggest goodbye in men’s figure skating, and really at the biggest stage.
Co-com: Javi is a personality on the ice regardless if he gets a medal here or not. He’s a personality of world’s figure skating. He’s an icon. And this programme, I don’t mean today’s performance, but
this programme will be always treasured as is Bolero or some Carolina Kostner’s programs, it’s a break-through programme everyone in the world remembers. Everyone knows which programme you mean when you say Malaguena. Everyone knows it and remembers it. We’ve seen it here – with the first tone, first move, the audience was immediately ecstatic. At this point it doesn’t matter if he jumps the jumps or not.
(she loooooves the program, she said exactly the same in 2017 and didn't say it in 2016 only because she wasn't in the TV studio )
Com: Well, time flies. He’s 27. It’s the age when skaters finish their careers. But the time flew so
incredibly quickly…
Co-com: It depends a lot on your genes and whether the skater has had a bad injury or not. And at a certain point your body tells you to stop. Jozef Sabovčík
(they previously talked about Sabovčík’s farewell show Fire on Ice /Javi will appear there, too/ where Sabovčík retires from shows at the age of 55, and that he jumped quads even at 40 just for fun) managed to stay in skating for quite a long time. Javier has a lot of health problems, many worn out joints, ligaments etc, I think, so reasonably, he knows it’s best to finish still at the top.
Com (very surprised): So, in the end he’s only third… He’s third. Samarin surpassed him, but only by a tiny bit. A bit unsure reaction
(of the arena) though Russians
(spectators) could be excited that they have a chance, but they are torn because even in Russia they love Javier Fernandez so much.
FP
Instead of the warm-up they showed the Olympic Chanell's goodbye video with Czech subtitles.
Com: A beautiful confession of friendship and admiration for an amazing skater and I really think that since 2014 when Evgenii Plushenko said goodbye there hasn’t been such a great goodbye. It’s also interesting that when the skaters from this last group were introduced here in more detail, the organizers changed the order at the end and introduced Kolyada first and then Fernandez as the last.
Co-com: Even this means showing respect to this phenomenon named Javier Fernandez. And I’d like to add one thing. This introduction has its rule and you can switch the order only with the consent of the ISU.
Com: In the arena there are of course Javier Fernandez’s family and friends.
But I think that right now there are ten or twelve thousand spectators in the arena who feel like family members and friends of Javier Fernandez. And there are other millions of them around the world.
Co-com: For example here in Prague. (they were broadcasting from Prague)
Com: I think that in every corner of the Czech Republic! So, let’s hope he handles it.
Com: Quad toe – triple toe. Quad sal ahhhh. Triple axel – double toe. Triple axel ahhhh. Double flip – Euler – triple sal. And immediately another triple salchow.
That’s how a champion says goodbye. And it will be one last medal for this amazing, nice guy. And it will be one last flood of 10s, because artistically you cannot skate better.
Co-com: Since the first triple axel I’ve been thinking that we’re watching an exhibition skate and you could really feel it. And look at the spectators – they are giving him standing ovation. I think we’ve never seen Javier so relaxed. It looked really good, you could see how he was enjoying his last skate, last competition, and even though we’re watching only on a screen I felt such ease and contentment from him, that’s an advertisement for figure skating.
Recap
Co-com: Nah, this silly mistake
(flip) doesn’t matter, look, he himself is smiling because it really doesn’t matter.
Com: Javier Fernandez performed many great programs during his career, and I can promise you that for the gala tomorrow we’ll try to find some of them and show them during the break. But I think that he could not have finished his career with a better program than Man of La Mancha.
Co-com: Indeed.
He certainly chose two beautiful programs, programs closest to his heart. Where he can be himself. Because as Brian Orser said at end of the video message, he is Spanish. And you can just see it.
Com: 179.75 and Fernandez is first. He’s beaten Alexander Samarin. Of course, that’s thanks to the PCS.
And even though we can sometimes discuss that PCS is not objective, in this case you cannot say anything against this. And I’d even say that his PCS could’ve been higher.
Co-com: Of course, it could’ve.
After Misha’s second fall.
Com: And it’s decided. Heaven forbid, we certainly didn’t wish this.
But this story was meant to have the one and only hero.
Co-com: I think that it’s an almost fairy-tale ending for Javier. Because not to do any competition and to come to the Europeans… despite all experience he has, he hasn’t competed since the Olympics in February until the end of January now, that’s eleven months… veni, vidi, vici.
Only a true champion can win like that. And I don’t mean champion only in performing technical elements but in mentality. He IS the winner. That’s the mentality, he didn’t let anything distract him, he skated what he can. Yeah, there was one mistake, but we are used to his one mistake in the free
, and with his enthusiasm and elegance he won over everyone.
Com: really it will be Javier Fernandez everyone will be talking about. I remember only one similar story, in was EC in Bern (2011) and the goodbye of Sarah Meier. It was also a golden goodbye, her first EC gold.
Com: Will we get another Fernandez or someone like him who’ll make European and world’s figure skating history? And when?
Co-com: Hard to tell. Because not only the performance on the ice makes a champion. He needs charisma. And that’s something you can’t learn. When we compare the two phenomena, Plushenko and Fernandez… they could hardly be more different. Evgenii Plushenko – self-confident. I don’t mean it bad, he had what to be confident about, amazing skater, figure skating icon. And an at first hardly noticeable, humble Spanish skater who made it from nothing to where he is now and also became an icon, but totally different. You’ve never seen Javier participate in political campaigns, or to be promoting himself in social media as Zhenya Plushenko did. It’s not good or bad, it just shows that they are totally different, but both equally charismatic. They have the x-factor and it helps them, for example in a competition like this.
com: Do you have a personal memory you’ll always remember when it comes to Fernandez?
Co-com: Well, certainly. 2004 when I lead a seminar for figure skaters in Madrid. There was also this junior, young boy, Javier Fernandez. He jumped alright but he could hardly turn on one foot 
. And me and others were trying to find a way how to push Spanish skating forward.
Since then I’ve known Javier personally and we have kind of a working relationship (
smiles). And I have to say I admired the will of the Spaniards and the federation with which they launched the project – which was back then named Javier. I had my doubts because we know Spanish nature… This is really a fairy-tale that came true.
Gala
Com: And now the real highlight of the whole gala, maybe even the whole EC, but I don’t think anything can top his free skate that brought Javier Fernandez his seventh European title in his last competition. The Spanish champion.
The song Prometo was composed and performed by Spanish author Pablo Alboran and he says that it’s his most personal song. And Javier Fernandez, in his goodbye performance, interpreted it the same way.
Com:
And just Fernandez’s presence there brought him the edge over his rivals. They weren’t able to put up with the role of the challengers who had to dethrone Fernandez by themselves. So, Fernandez stays on the throne and nobody will ever dethrone him because he leaves as a king which is something many stars in the past didn’t accomplish.
But I'll post it separately so you can skip it...
