Follow that! (who can do better than that)
And this young man is very well equipped to do just that
Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore the music
He's a fabulous talent
19... just 18, sorry
I thought he was 19
Watched over by Brian Orser, Hanyu "Yazura"
For Japan
Quad toe to start
Wow
He has amazing height on these jumps
Wow. Very difficult entry into the triple axel, and he made it easy
(laughs)
Triple lutz, triple toe and he even had a delay at the beginning of the triple lutz
Well, if you had a show, you'd be watching this young man and thinking "I'd like to sign him up"
Big smile from Brian
What an exciting performance that was, from Hanyu "Yazura" of Japan
Absolutely fabulous
Capturing this audience
What charisma
Gary Moore providing the backdrop, the "late" (deceased) Gary Moore
Wonderful guitarist
And the music worked, it had an edge to it, and so did he
Well the girls love him don't they?
It's like the skating (unfinished sentence)... Well even I can see why (laughs)
Yeah, he's got... he has got charisma
I would say, you know, it's not... all absolutely right there, right now
But he's very young
And it is about, actually he's entertained the audience
And great. Well done.
And he's obviously good... talented in the "jumping department" (good at jumps)... everything.
I just feel he has a little bit more maturity to come yet, with his skating
But brilliant. I loved it.
Quality in the elements
Here's the first
Quad toe, watch the landing
Competely round (fully rotated)
Almost straight as a die (very straight landing/exit)
Very slow taking his free leg back, and (it would) be a little bit (more?) comfortable if he could get it back quicker
Lovely tight position in the air
Again watch that landing... right round!
Almost "spot on" (almost perfectly precise)
(chuckle) Brian loving that
That's what you want
And just great fun. There's a Japanese "delegation" here (several Japanese)...
...in the crowd, just loving this
I think he enjoyed it too, which was nice
And a great response from the crowd...
...and including all the toys the little girls and boys doing a great job
Maybe we'll see them in the future
Here you go, 8000 cuddly toys and some flowers
(laughs) Yeah, take those back to your room
95.32, the best he's ever scored for a short program...
...in the NHK Trophy final in 2012
And if he got that here, that would take him into 2nd place
I should have had one of those on last week with Chris, who had a bad cold and gave it to me
But (I) managed to get rid of that
So, here they go
OK, so both sides of the fence here, technical and artistic will be high
And indeed they are, huge, 95.37
That's the highest he's ever got
Standing a "country mile" (a long way) above 3rd place Jason Brown
Patrick Chan in 1st place
At the end of this men's short program
Some fabulous quality
A delighted Brian Orser
As well he should be (Brian should be delighted)
So there's the positioning
Patrick Chan "stands tall"
As he should here, and does, in 1st place
Hanyu "Yazura" 2nd place
Jason Brown in 3rd place
Tight with Yan Han (score is very close to Han Yan's)
He'll be wanting to get into the medals in the long program tomorrow
Alexander Majorov currently at the "bottom of the pile", he'll be looking to move up
An exciting event