After I wrote up the bonus features for the review. I watched the men's figure skating finals. After botching his long program last year and winning the title because of his lead from the short program, Jeremy Abbott truly deserved the title this year. He skated beautifully with lots of pinache and a high degree of difficulty. I hope he can hold it together for the Olympics and then the Worlds. (He fell apart at Worlds last year).
Ryan Bradley clearly had the crowd-pleasing skate of the night (he almost always does), and as he's retiring from amateur competition, I will say I'll miss him. He was just too far down the list from a mediocre short program.
Jonny Weir can't seem to skate a clean long program anymore. Like Sasha Cohen, he can be brilliant in the short program, and then he overthinks the long and makes mistakes. A shame. When he's on, he can be an effortless skater.
Evan Lysechek continued his hard-hitting skating style this year, and it was foolish to add that quad to his program (though they said he was hitting it all morning in practice). Still, he did well enough.
I think the three we'll send to the Olympics are our three strongest skaters at the moment if they can only hold their nerves together and perform. I wish them well.
