Arena
Worlds 2017 LP
Alexander Grishin and Fyodor Klimov
Gr: Now all your attention to the ice, please – best of the best. Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan, World Champion and Olympic Champion, is only the 5th after the SP, but it’s the FP which is decisive. The music is by Joe Hisaishi for this season for Hanyu. Let’s start.
Kl: An immaculately clean 4Lo! 4S.
Gr: He flies somewhere to the skies!
(then they fall silent and keep silent for a minute after the skate is done – for sheer shock, I think)
Kl: I think this needs no comments. Any person, even if he/she is no expert in FS, understands this was a genius skating. Everything was done ideally – there’s nothing to commentate here, everything was the highest level. And we along with the whole audience give him a standing ovation.
Gr: Everyone who’s present gives a standing ovation to the genius of world figure skating. I think I won’t be mistaken when I say that we won’t see anything like this even in this group. The fight for the first place isn’t yet over, of course – Hanyu wasn’t the first in the SP. But surpassing this skate will be nearly impossible. And after the competition, at home – either in Toronto or Japan – Hanyu will have around 90 per cent of global Winnie the Pooh resources
Kl: Yeah, we joked with our friends yesterday that today it will rain Winnie the Poohs…
Gr: Yes, it has rained and is continuing to rain… Hanyu can give one Pooh bear a day to charities and he’ll have enough to last him three years. Love Japanese anime? You’ll have a golden collection from the various competitions of World Championship dimension… Four quads, each one of perfect quality – a loop, 2 salchows and a toe-loop – that’s what Yuzuru Hanyu jumped in his LP. Brian Orser gave him such hugs. That was very touching and just what Yuzuru deserved. No, world records weren’t over with Evgenia Medvedeva’s skate – what Hanyu has shown here – I won’t use too many adjectives here like divine – but it was brilliant. So now we just remember and try to understand the figures which will come up on the boards now. He overcomes his own record by 3.5 points – that’s a new world record. Not the accumulated score, but he’s best in the LP score. 223.20. 321.50. It’s the first time I’ve seen a Hanyu record in the arena itself. A historic competition.
