mtnskater
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Back from Montreal and several days later I am still in shock and on such a high from Ilia’s world record, ground breaking performance. What a great moment in sports and figure skating history. I feel so lucky to have been in that audience. The electricity, the energy and the total screaming standing ovation. So fun. So memorable. People even stood again when the score came up. Just wow, wow, wow. I’ve probably watched his free skate back somewhere between 10 and 20 times already. I love the fan cam (I think from someone on FSU) that really captured the moment when Ilia came off the ice and draped over his father’s shoulder and his dad picked him up off the ground in the biggest bear hug. Gets me teary eyed every time. The Succession music and program with the soaring music, piano riffs and haunting choir voices…love it so much. Shae Lynn did a great program and Ilia rises to it by hitting the musical highlight notes on the beat while doing the most difficult jumping content ever.
I also wanted to say that Ilia’s exhibition also shocked me. It was so powerful and emotional and just knocked our socks off too. Amazing performance. And he does a quad axel in the finale![Eek! :eek: :eek:](/forum/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek1.gif)
Major congratulations to Ilia!!!![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
I also wanted to say that Ilia’s exhibition also shocked me. It was so powerful and emotional and just knocked our socks off too. Amazing performance. And he does a quad axel in the finale
![Eek! :eek: :eek:](/forum/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek1.gif)
Major congratulations to Ilia!!!
![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Clapping hands :clap: 👏](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)