Yes I meant that grand prx final.. he got silver and gold was for someone else, I read on fstwt some ppl saying he deff didn't deserve the gold... I know of figure skating but not as much about scores and stuff so what is your take on it. He jumped 5 quads.... ?
Yeah at gpf19 in Torino Yuzu got silver and Nate got the gold.
There will always be people to say that Nathan doesn't deserve to win and I very much disagree with that. Yuzu made a mistake in the short, he missed the combo. Now what I don't agree with were the overall scoring ARE WE SURPRISED THOUGH? No, we are not.
Yuzu did jump 5 quads in the free, for the first time. Which at his age already and with his asthma was a miracle on its own. He wasn't clean either during the free, he had planned a 3A3Aseq(uence) that he singled out, only doing a single axel. He had been trying 4A at practice the day before, he said in itw that he was extremely tired during the FS.
Nathan skated clean so he won. That's as simple as that. The issue, for me at least, was how they scored them both. Nate got over... was it 335+ total I believe? About 225 for the free alone which, for a program based on jumps that should not receive so much GOE because they don't check all the bullets in the rulebook (again, that's another issue), was plain ridiculous. Yuzu’s WR in 2017 under the old system (where you got only +3 for a jump as GOE and not +5 as it’s the case now) was 223+ with only 4 quads.
But saying Nathan shouldn't have won GPF19 is just being delusional. Had Yuzu been clean in both the short and free, the win should have been his. Even then, there's no telling it would've though.
What I do believe is that when both clean, Yuzu should win because he has superior... everything. Skating skills, transitions, interpretation... everything the ISU is trying to erase basically.
