Quick translation of E2 Dutch commentary:
Yuzuru Hanyu, last year he surprised the whole world at the GPF by skating 110.95, a world record in the SP. The free program, the 330 his total score. Was sort of already too good at the NHK trophy, the regular GPs is mostly to try things out, but tryings everything out in Sapporo already led to an almost perfect program. Let’s see if he’s even better here.
And in that FS in Sapporo he first landed the quad loop cleanly, a jump he also wants to do here in the SP. And here it comes, from steps… oooohhhh, he manages to hold it! Combination quad salchow triple toe loop. “Yes!” (in English) the triple axel.
What a spectacle here in Marseille with the men, and how wonderful that he skated last, well done drawing [that last starting spot], Yuzuru, because the skating order didn’t go on World ranking or skating performances. What a gift for the audience and all of us that we were allowed to see this as ending. What a SP! Let’s go Crazy, Prince, how fitting, purple lila costume, and now *almost* perfect. He will not be completely happy with it, because he really won’t be if it isn’t sublime. that quad loop still had a difficult landing, and we’ll have a look at what he did there. If anybody else drops the tension in the upper body like that, then you really aren’t gonna make it, but he can, with that incredible skating technique of his. That really does help in those jumps, if you can skate that well.
Yes, if he’d landed it [I hope he means landed it cleanly, otherwise he really hadn’t been paying attention!] we would have been witness to a new world record, for sure. Yes, and he was really into it, you can give him high points for components, for presentation, but I wouldn’t give him a 10, because there was that little mistake. He did get tens in Japan for the SP; yes, three if I recall correctly, very nice if you’re sitting there as judge and finally can give a 10. But anyway, here’s the quad loop, four rotations, wow look how he holds his head down here, I think he barely believed he was standing, and on to the quad salchow with the triple toe. It doesn’t even really look like a quad, almost like a triple because it just goes *so easy*. Order visualises the take-off, [skates] along. What I admire so much about Hanyu is that the loop, too, he jumps nicely from steps. He increases the difficulty of his programs but really does fewer steps or less choreography. We did see that with, for example, Nathan Chen, who then skates a quad flip, separately, from steps, but there weren’t actually any steps before it, so it should get -2 from the judges, regardless of the fact that it was a beautiful jump.
Yes, you already said it, a world record it probably won’t be, that’s 110. I think his best score so far this season is 103.89. Well, that will be beaten at NHK, there he had a step out, overturned the jump [uhm?], this was better. It’ll be the second best score ever.
The winner of the SP, but how much will his advantage be? It’s a good thing Patrick Chan skated so well, oooh 106.53, second best score ever, and you see this is the reaction of the Olympic champion, reservedly enthusiastic because it still wasn’t perfect, he wants better, but gets another chance on Saturday in the FS, which this year he already skated rather well in Sapporo. Small 7 points ahead of Patrick Chan, and Fernandez, still managed to get third.
As always, there two are very restrained commentators compared to some. ;-0
Probably heart attack.
eace:Good luck to Yuzu too!
