Skate America - Men's short program

This morning I've been spending some time watching figure skating on YouTube. The only segment that's up as of 10:30am PST is the men's short program, and I watched about one-third of the entries. I figure that's comprable to what I would've probably seen if we were seeing it on TV, but without the Russian commentary, of course. On Sunday night, more was downloaded, and I was able to see most of the SP.

Kevin Reynolds
Shawn Sullivan
Takahiko Kozuka
Igor Macypura
Adrian Schultheiss
Adam Rippon
Evan Lysacek
Johnny Weir

Lysacek is first after the short program. You can tell it's the beginning of the season; all of the above were solid, but no one tried to do any quads. We'll see what's up for their long programs, especially Lysacek, whose triples looked easily done.

I'll give folks a little bit longer, and then I'll go looking for more performances. The most interesting to note was Lysacek; from this first outing, it looks like he's the one to beat this season. He skated to "Bolero", and his costume, which had a red cross on both sides of his torso, was interesting. That's pretty brave; I've always said that if I were a figure skater, I'd never skate to "Bolero".






More later.