Experience is helping me to keep calm in general."Īfter a disappointing short program, Matteo Rizzo bounced back with a wonderfully expressive skate to The Irrepressibles' Two Men In Love.
But I guess the nerves kicked in, and I made some mistakes. I guess it's because yesterday I was in the lead, and I felt in myself I had a possibility to be on top. He told, "Being on the podium I am still disappointed in myself. That was enough to keep him on the podium as he matched his third place from this competition in 2018.
He also had the crowd on his side and smiled broadly at the end of the routine, despite his jumping errors, and earned 168.38 for fifth in the free skate. It was a superbly artistic interpretative skate to the La La Land soundtrack, including a dazzling closing choreo sequence, but the 23-year-old Japanese surprisingly received a lower program component score (PCS) than Kvitelashvili. Tomono had an advantage of less than half a point from the short program, and a couple of under-rotations and a fall on a late triple Axel cost him victory.
The Georgian, who trains in Moscow with the Sambo-70 Crystal school of Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov, and Daniil Gleikhengauz, produced a second personal best in consecutive days - a 170.96 in the free skate - to take over at the top of the leaderboard. Skating to a medley of Frank Sinatra songs, Kvitelashvili was largely solid and the crowd was completely engaged in his skate. While his jumping was far from foot-perfect, this was an excellent effort from the 22-year-old who went second overall on 253.80 with two skaters to come.
Mikhail Kolyada: "I feel I've grown, emotionally and professionally"Ĭanada's Roman Sadovsky was unable to displace Kolyada despite posting a personal best score of 169.21 in the free skate.