I was searching dailymotion for more versions of H&L and had a completely
w t f moment when I found
a brazilian broadcast.
the audio is terribly low at the video though I actually didn't even know that they broadcast Worlds here? It's in cable TV and I knew that this channel exists, it’s like Eurosport, but still.
Obviously I expect zero because figure skating is a black hole here. And they ended up saying nothing during the actual program :rofl2:
which might be the ideal commentatory for some people lmfao But they commented about it after, from 09:33 :
C: Did you like it? It’s Yuzuru Hanyu, the Olympic champion giving a show, from Japan, drawing applauses. Everybody standing up at the Helsinki arena, applauding a lot the Japanese. No wonder. And now he’s receiving a rain of bears and flowers. Indeed he deserves all of our admiration, all of our respect, Yuzuru Hanyu. Group 4 already showing that the competition now is
another one altogether. But now we have one question: Hanyu has 98.39 from the short program and the difference is of 11 points in relation to Javier Fernandez. In figure skating everything is possible, but in order for him to stay with the title it’s necessary for Javier Fernandez to have a very bad performance. But, look, it was already a gift
(literally premium, prize) for us to watch this performance from Yuzuru Hanyu, opening this last group of skaters. Marcus Vinicius Schmidt.
MVS: Oh. My. God, Clayton. What was this guri
(term/slang used in the South for 'boy') skating just right now. Spectacular. Impeccable.
he seems shook
C: Impeccable, Impeccable.
MVS: He can take his Olympic medal, lift it up very high because he’s indeed deserving of it. It’s a grit, a consistency, an impressive cleanliness in his technique. Choreographically impressive too. Wonderful. There isn't anything that you could turn around and say “Oh, he failed this, he failed that.” No! The boy was wonderful. Landing of the jumps
(literally ‘finalization’ so it could mean exit), air position, speed at the spins, impeccable choreography, impeccable transitions. Wow! Now, regarding the scoring that you talked about there, Clayton, from Javier. It’s what you said, everything can happen. If Javier makes too many errors these 11 points can be diluted too. I think it’s complicated because 11 point is a big difference. And I, personally, thought that they ‘fattened’ the scores of Javier Fernandez. Of course he’s also a wonderful skater, this is indisputable, But .. But I felt a little, not that they
pulled for him, but that they valorized him more. Something that they don’t do for this boy. When this boy makes errors they
destroy him…
lmfao sudden change of topic Wonderful, congratulations!
C: Yuzuru Hanyu keeps applauding. He’s already taken his bear. He’s now waiting for his scores which will be extremely high.
Few seconds of silence
MVS:He had a perfect program, Clayton. There’s not, there’s
nothing to say. There’s nothing to say.
Scores come up
C: 223.20. Take a look at the technnical elements, 126.12 . For the presentation
97.08.
MVS: They could have elevated more the presentation marks for the boy’s performance, don’t you think, Clayton. For the love of God.
C: It’s very discrepant. 321.59.
MVS: Oh yes, yes. The guri was
beautiful. For the love of God
C: . It’s too high of a difference … Between the presentation and the technnical elements. And this will make the difference at the end.
MVS: Exactly. They could have valorized more this program from the boy in order to dilute a bit this difference too. Damn. For the love of God.
Oh and they meant 'boy' not as in a 'this kid' kind of way or as in he was less of a skater, it's just a way of talking, a quite endearing one actually. Probably because, as I've said, the guy is from the South.
That one guy seems a bit pissed.
I just wanted to share for the giggles, and I think we rarely have here translated latin american commentary. Maybe they’re clueless and think that his PCS should be closer to his technnical score because they don't know that there's a PCS ceilling since, for me, his PCS was fine
Or they might just be absolutely pro-GS commentators making a constructive critique on the true value of PCS in the age of IJS, you never know.
I was curious and searched about the commentators and the
Marcus Vinicius guy is very involved with Artistic Roller Skating, he’s a judge, coach, choreographer,
owner of an academy and technical director at the Brazilian Skating/Hockey Federation, but the
absolute highlight is that he judged a completely cheesy
“Ice Dancing With the Stars (?)” segment at a very popular Sunday TV show in 2006 ala Yuna’s Kiss & Cry and I'm laughing at this as we speak because I never knew this existed. He commented Sochi and will also do commentary for Pyeongchang. The other guy, Clayton, is just a general narrator for a lot of sports.
:hap93:
(I think she was the one who was sharing/eating that cake with Yuzu)
