2026 4CC - Men Free Skate

[floridaice]

Saw an Insta story in which Ho, Fang & Borromeo have a bet among themselves - whoever has the lowest total score today will have to pay some sort of bill for everyone.

I hope Paola has the payola

 

[Matryeshka]

I blame Chris's pronunciation for Borromeo's jumps. Every time he goes into a jump, I bet he hears Pay-o-lo, and he falls. He needs to have a conversation with Kay-o-ree.

 

[Vagabond]

Little boxes on the scoreboard....

There's a red one, and a red one, and red one, and a red one,

And they all look just the same.

 

[Bunny Hop]

Paolo Borromeo (Phillipines)
Hole up 'Til Sunrise by Ludwig Goransson
I Lied to You by Miles Caton

Sparkly grey rather than sparkly blue.

2 Axel - not landed well
3 Flip - deep knee bend to hold the landing together
3 Lutz + 3 Toe loop - also poor landing. UR.
Fly Change Combo Spin L4
3 Loop - hand down
3 Lutz - Fall
3 Flip - Fall
2 Salchow - double footed
Step sequence L3
Choreo Seq
Change Combo Spin L3
Fly Change Sit Spin L2

Not convinced any of those jumps were rotated and nothing much in between elements.

 

[MacMadame]

Inspite of all the red and the low TES, I found that the most enjoyable of the three betting boys.

 

[my little pony]

it felt like the camera was on the girl chewing with her mouth open for an hour

 

[Sylvia]

Paolo has landed clean 3A in past competition(s).

ETA:

Figure skating - Men's Discipline on Instagram: "Top 3 Triple Axels 🔥 SP: Asian Open Senior Men Kwang Bom Han 🇰🇵 +0.27 Hyungyeom Kim 🇰🇷 +0.00 Paolo Borromeo 🇵🇭 -0.27 @hyungyeom17 @bow_chicka_pao_pao #figureskating #figureskaters #figureskater #

317 likes, 3 comments - men_of_fs on August 5, 2025: "Top 3 Triple Axels 🔥 SP: Asian Open Senior Men Kwang Bom Han 🇰🇵 +0.27 Hyungyeom Kim 🇰🇷 +0.00 Paolo Borromeo 🇵🇭 -0.27 @hyungyeom17 @bow_chicka_pao_pao #figureskating #figureskaters #figureskater #skating #iceskating#iceskaters #iceskater...

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[Matryeshka]

Somewhere, there's a late 90s boyband looking for its missing member...

 

[MacMadame]

I know this dude was actually born in Kazakhstan but he would look right at home on the Santa Monica boardwalk.

 

[peibeck]

Melnikov is bringing the OES vibes to the OAS.

Nice 3A to open though.

 

[Bunny Hop]

Oleg Melnikov (Kazakhstan)
Shot by The Rasmus

3 Axel - good
3 Lutz - Tilted in ar, fall
3 Lutz + 3 Toe Loop - Fall
1 Loop
Change Combo Spin L3
3 Loop + 2 Axel + 2 Axel - Not great but got through it
3 Flip - Step out
3 Salchow + 2 Toe loop
Change Camel Spin L4 - almost ground to a halt
Step sequence L3
Choreo Seq
Fly Sit Spin L3

Finished slightly before the music.
Well it started okay, I guess.

 

[Amy L]

He looks like Kiefer Sutherland in the Lost Boys.

 

[tony]

One of the best cantilevers I've ever seen honestly. There is indeed something about him that is interesting.

The next two men have no business being in this first group.

 

[Sylvia]

Let’s go Yu-Hsiang (Jordan)!!

 

[Matryeshka]

I like the journey of that one blob from green to grey to red to grey to red to green to back to green.

 

[peibeck]

One of the best cantilevers I've ever seen honestly.

I thought it was Abt like.

 

[tony]

I thought it was Abt like.

Abt didn't do that (as far as I remember?), maybe you're thinking Klimkin

 

[Jay42]

That was so great for Yu-Hsiang!

 

[Bunny Hop]

Yu-Hsiang Li - Taipei
Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, Cody Fry

3 Loop - nice
3 Axel
3 Salchow
3 Flip
Fly change combo spin L4
Choreo Seq
3 Flip + 2 Axel +2 Axel
Change Camel Spin L4
3 Lutz + 3 Toe Loop - a cracker says Chris
3 Lutz + 2 Toe loop
Step Sequence L3
Change Combo Spin L4

Tony is right, that was way better than first group. Good presentation and way faster than the previous 4. Good job!

 

[MacMadame]

That was fun! I hope he moves up a lot.

 

[my little pony]

what a great skate from li or at least it feels that way after what we've been thrugh
also once that not Paul McCartney stopped singing, the orchestral bit was very nice

 

[peibeck]

Not really a fan of this Beatles song, but Li was fantastic.

 

[Sylvia]

3A< but he’s getting closer to landing one cleanly. Ivan Dinev has been working with him in Taipei, AFAIK.

 

[MacMadame]

Ivan Dinev has been very busy this competition!

 

[Matryeshka]

Is this the skater Georgii Reshtenko was upset about beating him for an Olympic spot?

 

[peibeck]

Abt didn't do that (as far as I remember?), maybe you're thinking Klimkin

Yes, thank you.

 

[tony]

That PCS is trash, total first group dumpage.

 

[Vagabond]

Delmore and Dinev have cornered the market on OAS.

 

[my little pony]

is Derek collecting 1 skater from every country

 

[Matryeshka]

Oooo, it's the pretty Kazakh skater!