2026 Europeans - Men Free Skate - “To Be Or Not To Appleby - That Is The Quadstion?”

[miffy]

Aww Lukas This wasn't a great defending champion performance.

 

[beckab81]

He should have higher PCS than most of the others we’ve seen, but don’t think he can overcome the 15 point tech gap with Reschenko

 

[Private Citizen]

Generous scoring from my POV. I expected him to be around 7th in the free.

 

[Karen-W]

That is some generous PCS for a rather uninspired program.

 

[Sally1214]

Not the skate Lukas wanted. Shame. At almost 28 years of age, this could be his last year competing too. Sigh ..... I'm already getting nostalgic thinking about the number of skaters we may not be seeing on the int'l scene again after this season.

 

[Braulio]

Lukas

and Reshtenko is 6th at least!

 

[miffy]

Not the skate Lukas wanted. Shame. At almost 28 years of age, this could be his last year competing too. Sigh ..... I'm already getting nostalgic thinking about the number of skaters we may not be seeing on the int'l scene again after this season.

He can't be that old already!

 

[Sally1214]

Awww ... darn it. Settle down, Daniel.

 

[kirkbiggestfan]

Deadly lutz for the pope.

 

[Colonel Green]

Those jumps are not infallible, unlike the Supreme Pontiff.

 

[Sally1214]

He can't be that old already!

Yep .... 28 in Feb.

 

[Karen-W]

Grassl's lucky he earned his Olympic spot during the autumn because this is a right disaster to start off with.

 

[delayedaxel]

Awww, that's hard to watch

 

[Braulio]

OMG Daniel imploding

 

[tony]

Lutz< fall
Loop maybe q fall
4S maybe ok
Axel q? fall
3A<+2A+2A
3Lz+3Tq
3Lo+3T< definitely <

4 deductions to start the free skate, every jumping pass in the red besides the 4S, likely to tank even more when q/< get applied.

 

[MsZem]

No white smoke for this.

 

[BittyBug]

Absolute disaster so far for Grassl.

 

[Wyliefan]

Grassl: "The pope is dead."
The pope: "Grassl is dead."

 

[Spikefan]

Grassl better get it together for the team event.

 

[Private Citizen]

Grassl’s jumps were looking better in the early season but now seem to have huge hooks again. < in my view.

Oh dear, third fall. Too bad he was already named to the team. And second axel < or worse. Toe looked < too. Disaster.

 

[Vagabond]

Is it too late for Italy to rethink its Olympic team?

 

[JoannaLouise]

Eeek, this has been... messy

 

[ilovesalchows]

Yikes. Does he have a clogged ear? So crooked.

 

[peibeck]

Daniel stalking these jumps like a priest going after a 12 year old.

 

[Matryeshka]

To be fair, last year's Euros was the splattiest of splatfests for the heavy hitters. I don't think anyone was more surprised than Lukas that he won last year. He deserved it, no doubt, but even if he skated well, not sure he should repeat.

OK. The voodoo doll has traveled to Eruos, and clearly Reshtenko found it. Damn. If the jumps he did land actually get reviewed, we'll know.

 

[beckab81]

I really wish we were getting Rizzo & Memola at the Olympics

 

[Braulio]

He will be lucky if stays in top 10

 

[Karen-W]

Italy's Olympic TE medal hopes are rapidly evaporating.

 

[Rainbow]

I want Memola in Milan

 

[Private Citizen]

If there’s any justice in the world this would go below Jari Kessler. The jumps looked just as bad in warmup too. Don’t let him get away with Q. At least five jumps were < bordering on <<. I can see the tracings.