GPdF 2025 PBP - Men FS: “When the Cock crows who will rule the Roost (er)?”

[Kateri]

Oh and 1-foot landing on the back flip into 3 turns. Forgot to mention that in my shocked state.

Yeah, this bit was my favourite. Everyone else doing clunky backflips needs to stop.

 

[Wyliefan]

Just another day at the office for Ilia.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

That was incredible. Saying the program is empty is nonsense.

 

[Firedancer]

Ilia’s jumps are always so solid. But the program is empty and I can’t with the voiceovers.

 

[Kateri]

The interviewer immediately going into "hey remember when you LOST here to Adam??" lmao

 

[honey]

The interviewer immediately going into "hey remember when you LOST here to Adam??" lmao

And continues with “and you tried five quads, only four ratified”. She might as well have told him to get off his lazy butt and be better next time. Hilarious.

 

[her grace]

5th for Pitot is great result for him!

French having a great home event

 

[tony]

That was incredible. Saying the program is empty is nonsense.

It is empty through the first half and when the jumps come back for the second half bonus what did you see that we may have missed?

 

[PRlady]

I think it was the 4sal 3A combo where I decided he’s not human.

The program is besides the point (and I’m not one to criticise 20-years-old pretentiousness, I was worse.) I’m not sure we will see someone with that athletic ability in our sport again in this lifetime.

 

[Spikefan]

Love the costume, hair improved. At least I can understand the voiceovers with this sound system, couldn’t make it out earlier. I appreciate that I am not stressed when I watch him, unlike pretty much every other man.

 

[skatingguy]

Nika Egadze
Rank after SP: 2
Coach: E. Tutberidze, S. Dudakov, D. Gleikhengauz
Music: Sailing, Verve, Sail

4T - slow to check out
4S - step out
3S+3Tq
3A+2A+SEQ
Flying Camel Spin 3 - very slow
3A+1Eu+3S
3F
3Lz!
Change Foot Sit Spin 4
Step Sequence 4
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

Solid skate for Egadze, who is becoming quite the reliable skater in the past couple seasons. I wish he would bend his knees more on everything, but especially the jumps.

163.74 = 3rd Place
259.41 = 2nd Place

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I kinda like the Edgar Ilia Poe top

 

[shan]

I think it was the 4sal 3A combo where I decided he’s not human.

The program is besides the point (and I’m not one to criticise 20-years-old pretentiousness, I was worse.) I’m not sure we will see someone with that athletic ability in our sport again in this lifetime.

Yeah that jump combo is incredible and worth almost 20 points alone! Go Ilia!

 

[peibeck]

I'm here for it. It will drive the Fanyus absolutely batshit that not only is Ilia out-teching their God, he's also out-pretensioning Hanyu as well.

If only Ilia skated to "Seimei" to really rub it in rather than this voice over nonsense.

 

[peibeck]

Are these medals in the shape of the rooster?

 

[skatingguy]

Ilia Malinin
Rank after SP: 1
Coach: T. Malinina, R. Skorniakov, R.Arutiunian
Music: The Ball, The Smell of the Sea

4F
3A
4Lz
3Lo
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
Step Sequence 4
4Lzq+1Eu+3F
4T+3T
4S+3A+SEQ
Choreo Sequence
Flying Sit Spin 3
Change Foot Combo Spin 3 (4 after review)

Ilia's vocals over the music of the program are so pretentious. Taking it easy early in the season with just five quads. The back flip doesn't fit the mood/theme of this program, but it has nice style to it.

215.78 = 1st Place
321.00 = 1st Place

 

[Skaterbob]

I just noticed the one legged back flip landing from Ilia. I love that!

 

[chewy]

This is peak figure skating in so many ways, the Urmanov sleeves, the Plushenko play to the judges choreo, maybe a bit of Cranston in there of owning the ice, voiceovers, swagger, tech content. I will ding him for the bad hair color job. I love all of this.

 

[Debbie S]

From what I could make out on my phone screen, Ilia's hair and costume were better today but he needs to change the sleeves to straight/form-fitting...the puffy look is too 18th century opera (or cringe 80s).

Not a fan of the voiceovers but they are growing on me.

And to think this isn't even his tech peak.

 

[chewy]

Right, this is not even tech peak.

No matter how much other skaters, who are all great and worthy, attempt to scale the mountain, not one is going to touch Ilia in tech on his path to world and Olympic domination. He can put whatever brilliance or crap out on the ice because that's what he wants to perform whether we like it or not. Enjoy the ride.

 

[Spikefan]

This is peak figure skating in so many ways, the Urmanov sleeves, the Plushenko play to the judges choreo, maybe a bit of Cranston in there of owning the ice, voiceovers, swagger, tech content. I will ding him for the bad hair color job. I love all of this.

It just needs last season’s dying on ice and then .

 

[rfisher]

Well, barring injury, Malinin is a lock for the OGM, but silver and bronze are really wide open among at least 4 maybe 5 skaters. They may be the more interesting skates and will depend on who can do two clean programs with all their possible tech.

I do wonder if Malinin will stay in another cycle or if he has life goals beyond skating at this point? He's been the major breadwinner for his family for several years now and has certainly helped his parents grow their coaching stable, but where does Ilia want to be 5 years from now? Just musing. Maybe he wants to join the exclusive club of skaters who has a gold medal from every major competition. Or go do something totally different. But, I hope he stays healthy and reaches the goal he and his parents set out to win come February.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I thought you were making a funny joke, till I read his bio:

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2025/2026

Journey through the Orient: Eastern Intro by Jeff Van Dyck Shadows Over Persia by Hakan Glante Epic Middle Eastern Vocal by Andrea Krux Middle Eastern by India Happy Epic Middle East Female Vocal by Andrea Krux

Andrea Krux sounds like Grok’s cousin.

 

[Karen-W]

I do wonder if Malinin will stay in another cycle or if he has life goals beyond skating at this point? He's been the major breadwinner for his family for several years now and has certainly helped his parents grow their coaching stable, but where does Ilia want to be 5 years from now? Just musing. Maybe he wants to join the exclusive club of skaters who has a gold medal from every major competition. Or go do something totally different. But, I hope he stays healthy and reaches the goal he and his parents set out to win come February.

Oh, I think he definitely stays in for at least a few more seasons, barring injury. He was quoted after the SP yesterday about his work on quints over the summer. He said he managed to land a few but didn't have any videos of them as they aren't the priority - that will come after this season.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Frangi seems totally out of condition. Probably been into @AngieNikodinovLove (ANL) 's peanut butter cup stash.

That was painful to watch. Even the spins crawled.

Guiltyyyyyyyyyy

Just starting to watch things now, yes, that was not the best performances at all.

I should’ve let him leave the harem earlier….

 

[Rukia]

Maybe she's just set her house on fire, at this point.

or maybe we've moved beyond candles to witchcraft idk let's see what we can scrounge up for cpom in a few weeks

 

[TanithandBenFan]

It is empty through the first half and when the jumps come back for the second half bonus what did you see that we may have missed?

He’s paying attention to the music, noting the accents. He’s not just barreling from jump to jump with no regard for the music. Obviously there’s some setup for the jumps, but I didn’t feel like that’s all there was. I’d have to go back to list specific steps, but I do remember a couple of spirals.

 

[4rkidz]

Ok caught up with the men, wow Adam and Ilia! So nice to see Adam back on form after injuries. The French team for the Olympics will be solid.
Ilia.. cannot wait to see this live at Skate Canada. He has really matured into an amazing skater the best of all time in my opinion, I just don’t understand how he can do such jumps and what about that combo spin at the end! Wow!

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Eteri seems genuinely happy for him

Surprised at that too. Both Georgian?

 

[her grace]

Handicapping making Olympic team after this event:

USA
-Malinin: yes, duh
-Torgashev: it’s a wash. Slightly hurt by terrible SP, slightly helped by 2 quad free skate
-Naumov: don’t think this helped him get any closer. He needs to beat his fellow non-Malinin teammates and he just hasn’t. And no second GP listed for him

FRA
Saio Him Fa: obviously going to be on the team, showed how good he can be in FS, but also showed his inconsistent vulnerability
Pitot: great competition for him, but no room at the inn. Only going if Aymoz completely falls apart and maybe not even then
Economides: just don’t see it happening for him

GEO
Egadze: he is the one

SUI
Britschgi: same

JPN
Tsuboi: he was looking for a better score/placement, this doesn’t help his BOW/reputation
Miura: this result hurts

EST
Selevko: there will definitely be a Selevko there . I haven’t closely followed how his brother is skating this season. This was an okay result for younger bro.

ITA
Frangipani: don’t think he can reach Grassl, Memola/Rizzo, certainly, not with skates like this