ISU World Championships at the 2021 Worlds.
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With the short program before the pairs free skate decides the first medals. Follow along with all the news, action, and updates from Stockholm.Olympic Channel is live blogging the event all week, and today we'll be bringing you all the action, updates, and news from the men's singles short program and pairs free skate.Do bookmark this page for easy access throughout the day and check back here at around 11:30 am local time for the first updates.
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So, here he is, the final skater of Group 4: Vincent Zhou.
He's skating to Vincent (Starry Starry Night).
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Uh oh, an attempted Rippon quad Lutz and he falls. That's going to be a downgrade on the Lutz.
Quad Sal, triple toe combination is marked down too. Underrotated on the Sal? He looks nervous after that fall.
And a second fall on his triple Axel. Zhou is going to be in serious trouble here.
He gives a wave in the kiss and cry.
70.51 points, currently outside of the free skate cutoff."I know that I have what it takes to medal on a world stage, and if I can medal [there], why can't I medal on an Olympic stage?” He said ahead of the U.S. Championships, where he went on to win silver. “I know that the stakes are higher, and people are going to be more well trained, but ... I’m really trying my best to make sure everything comes together for that one moment in time, that one chance to put everything out there.”
He is the final skater in this group. - NMKagiyama Yuma, the Youth Olympic champion from 2020 and NHK Trophy winner this season, is up next.
He has two quads planned.
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The first is neatly done, a quad Sal in combination with a triple toe. Over +3 on the GOE there.
A stunning quad toe, again scoring high GOEs.
And a triple Axel too! Superb stuff.
Kagiyama's Vocussion program is beautiful. Lots of energy in it, completely clean. This will lead, in his first senior Worlds. Wow!
It's over 100 points! A double first pump from Kagiyama! 100.96 points!Here comes Kolyada.
Quad toe, triple toe to open was not clean. Looked like he turned out of the quad and there was no real connection with the triple. That said, he did well to save the combination.
Recovers with a triple Axel, which he lands nicely. The live Grade of Execution was over 2 points for that, so no repeat of the troubles he had in The Hague.
Triple Lutz is clean.
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The opening element has let Kolyada down here but the rest of that skate was pretty flawless.
I wonder what's going through his mind right now?
It's still a 93.52, very impressive, but that could have got closer to the 100 mark.Semenenko, the big surprise winner of the Russian Cup Final to book his spot in Stockholm, opens with a great quad toe, triple toe combination.
He hangs on to the quad Salchow that follows but find himself marked down on his spin.
The triple Axel is held on too as well. Didn't look the cleanest.
Not bad, all things considered, for the Russian junior national champion making his first real international appearance (not counting a sixth place at this year's regionalised Rostelecom Cup).
He gets a handshake from coach Alexei Mishin as he comes off the ice.
That's going to move him above Britschgi into first.
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86.86, that will go down as his official senior personal best – and more than eight points clear of the Swiss."We couldn't skate from March to June because there were no rinks, they were all closed. They started to re-open the rinks in Monterrey, in the north. I trained there for one month, then went to Mexico City for two months. Then I was able to go back home in September."