Lombardia Trophy 2024 - Men's SP & FS

[PRlady]

Completely different question: where were all the Italian guys? Home ice and not one of them entered?

 

[beckab81]

Completely different question: where were all the Italian guys? Home ice and not one of them entered?

Memola & Rizzo are still recovering; Memola from a broken ankle and Rizzo from surgery. Not sure about Frangi, Grassl or Circelli.

 

[PRlady]

Memola & Rizzo are still recovering; Memola from a broken ankle and Rizzo from surgery. Not sure about Frangi, Grassl or Circelli.

Yikes I knew about Rizzo but not Memola.

 

[Karen-W]

Memola & Rizzo are still recovering; Memola from a broken ankle and Rizzo from surgery. Not sure about Frangi, Grassl or Circelli.

Yikes I knew about Rizzo but not Memola.

Me either! Had no idea that Memola broke his ankle.

Frangi and Matteo Nalbone are entered for Nebelhorn next week, and Grassl is entered for Denis Ten Memorial in a few weeks. Rizzo has a late GP debut (NHK, with Grassl, actually, lol) so we may not see him until Budapest Trophy or Trophee Metropole Nice.

 

[beckab81]

Me either! Had no idea that Memola broke his ankle.

Frangi and Matteo Nalbone are entered for Nebelhorn next week, and Grassl is entered for Denis Ten Memorial in a few weeks. Rizzo has a late GP debut (NHK, with Grassl, actually, lol) so we may not see him until Budapest Trophy or Trophee Metropole Nice.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-DytZXOJF7/?hl=en&img_index=1
Here's his post about it. He also had an IG story today from Absolute Skating saying that he's still on track for Shanghai Trophy and his GP's, just didn't want to push it for Lombardia.

 

[YukiNieve]

IIRC, Yuma plans to add 4Lz later this season.
Mateo was in the venue, talking to his fans.

 

[Kateri]

Mateo is in the venue, talking to his fans.

Yes, I saw him in the audience, scoping out the competition. I hope his recovery is going well!

 

[Frau Muller]

I’ve watched both Ilia & Yuma. Ilia displays more energy and enlivens the music. I wasn’t counting quads or spins. Ilia has the OOMPH, not that I don’t also enjoy Yuma’s elegance and glide. We’re living in a great time to enjoy skating. What a week of joy we’ve had, between Bangkok and Bergamo! One heck of a week. Will next week equal it, with Ankara and Nebelhorn?

 

[Dobre]

Thoughts:

I like Selevko's new SP.

I never thought I'd see so much line from Shun Sato as we just saw in this LP. Someone has been working hard, and I am impressed.

Kagiyama's free has nice potential.

(Mom & I both think the short is a miss, Lori. You've butchered out the whole point of using this version of Sound of Silence. If you're going to do Sound of Silence without the build, then why not just use the Simon & Garfunkel?)

I think both the short and the free are a nice step for Malinin.

Probably, I am too hopeful after watching an event held in Italy, but this has been a great event for seeing drama rather than soft & flowy. Mom & I both feel that the dueling vampire programs last season may have had an impact! Particularly in the pairs field, but Malinin's program implies outside it as well. Fingers crossed that we not find this event to be the outlier.

 

[Karen-W]

Probably, I am too hopeful after watching an event held in Italy, but this has been a great event for seeing drama rather than soft & flowy. Mom & I both feel that the dueling vampire programs last season may have had an impact! Particularly in the pairs field, but Malinin's program implies outside it as well. Fingers crossed that we not find this event to be the outlier.

I noticed this too, especially in Pairs but I do think it has filtered into the other disciplines as well. Sure, there is still plenty of soft, flowy dreck of a bunch of varieties (emo, generic ballad, classical) but there were some good programs that understood the necessity of building some drama and musical highlights into them, and I hope more skaters start going in that direction.

I think Ilia's FS is going to be a banger by Nats and Worlds and could, again, bring down the house - and both the raspberry twist and the laid-out back flip timed perfectly to the music are spectacular. We need more stag leaps, Russian splits, death drops, Ina Bauers, spirals, raspberry twists and back flips to musical highlights to capture the public's imagination again.

 

[skatfan]

Personally, I thought Yuma's program was a bit boring until the last minute, and not even his step sequence was enough to truly save it for me by the end. Loved Ilia's theatricality, and I think it's a great program for him. A backflip that actually works well with the music. He's bringing a different style to figure skating, which this sport absolutely needs. Shun had the best programs of the whole competition, and I would have ranked him ahead of Yuma both segments.

I keep thinking that I want to love Yuma's programs more than I really do. He's improved a lot in the past couple of years, but there's still something missing for me. JMO.

Shae makes it easy for me to love Ilia's programs - and he is learning how to sell him. The SP is further along, but I can see his free skate growing over the season. It will be a fascinating season!

 

[Spikefan]

Finally watched the top 4 men and I loved all the programs. I know there is no guarantee what Japanese men will make it to Worlds but fingers and toes crossed for these three. As meh as I’m feeling about Dance I am the complete opposite for the Men.