Lots of great quads in the short program but by the free skate there was not one good one! Not from one person!
Short Programs
In the Mens skate Patrick Chan did a great quad toe loop - triple toe loop which got big GOE points. 14.40 plus 1.86 for a total of 16.26. Great accomplishment for him! It is like he was doing quad triples his whole career. Then he fell on a triple axel. Hope he puts them together soon.
Artur Gachinski did a quad toe loop + double toe loop. 11.70 + .43 = 12.13
Konstantin Menshov also did a quad-double and he scored 12.41 so better than Gachinski but he then doubled a triple loop.
Free Skate
Free Skate was a disaster for people who tried quads! They all failed
Chan underrotated and fell getting him 4.20 points but with the fall was really like 3.20
Abbott underrotated and fell getting the same score as Chan.
Preubert underrotated and fell!
Hanyu tripled it
Gachinski doubled it.
Machida underrotated but did not fall so got 5.06
Javier Fernandez did it but then fell. Some judges didn't give him -3 in GOE just -2 because he did land it for a second so 7.73 points
Konstantin Menshov had two planned but tripled one and doubled another.
It was just terrible. And that doesn't even factor in winner Tomas Verner who did them most of his career but doesn't do them anymore. But unlike Skate America a medal winner did do one at least so congrats to Patrick Chan who is now the standard bearer for quads! Didn't that would ever be written by anyone! LOL!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment