I've received a request to translate the Radio-Canada Sports coverage of Roman's Skate America LP. Because I had wanted to complete the task quickly, my translation is rather "literal" in the sense that I didn't put in much effort to reword certain parts so that it sounds better in English. The male commentator has a tendency to mumble, so I had asked a Québécois friend who subtitles French-language movies and TV shows for help with a few sections that I had trouble with, but even she had problems understanding some of what he said.
Woman: The Canadian Roman Sadovsky, he's 18 years old, and he's really part of the hopes for the future of Canadian figure skating. He was 9th after the short program, but it was almost without fault.
Man: And what he has shown to us about him augurs beautiful things. Let's see if in the free he has the capacity there as well to hold the distance despite his young age and his lack of experience.
Woman: Music from Les Misérables.
Man: Quadruple Salchow!
Woman: Oof!
Man: [It's a] Pity/Shame, he turned on himself, so he landed too forward. But he had the rotation (the commentator then mumbles something that even my friend cannot decipher).
Careful there, he must recover. The triple Axel! No, double Axel. Cautious.
And admire the gestures, he has very pretty skating, very beautiful carriage of the head. (The commentator then mumbles, and my friend's best guess is "Et beau descendu," which literally means "And beautiful descended." This doesn't make any sense, but she honestly can't figure out what else he could be saying.)
Here it's certainly a triple Axel... Yes! No. Augh, he missed the landing. And it's not fatigue because he has barely done the length of the short program.
(Roman singles the loop.) Missed.
So, do two performances in a row, two days in a row, that's also an experience.
Woman: He was still in junior last year, so taking in the experience on the senior stage.
Man: That's it, how to manage, how to manage the pressure, how to manage the fact that he's a very good skater, and we expect a lot, a lot from him.
[He interprets] Very well the music.
He really has a very pretty touch on the ice. Watch how the blade goes... to... on the rink, like an airplane that lands here, all in softness.
Go. Go, do it. (Roman singles the Axel.) No!
Woman: Augh.
Man: Mired in his thoughts.
Woman: Mm-hmm.
Man: Quadruple Salchow! And then he does a single toe loop. It's... it's perfect, he's young. It's his youth, it's that, becoming a skater progressively.
The triple Lutz, half loop, triple Salchow.
He has largely the means of his ambitions, this young man.
Very beautiful skater.
(Roman falls on the triple flip.) Augh!
Woman: Ouch.
Man: Missed the triple flip.
Woman: He's... yeah, he's hurt a bit.
Man: He got hurt. It turned more than what he wanted, nothing controlled. He didn't expect to miss it.
Woman: He fell badly. Oof.
Man: Well, we're sad for him, but it will sort itself out.
Woman: Roman Sadovsky of Canada. We put this in the suitcase of experience.
Man: Yes.