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Report on the Men's SP at Four Continents.

Todd was last to skate and landed 3 flip/3 toe combination (barely held on to the toe)
3 axel and 3 lutz out of fw. No problems noted on footwork and spins were great as usual.

Todd's marks:
Technical 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.7
Presentation 5.6 5.8 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8

Standings after the short program:

1. Todd Eldredge USA
2. Chenjiang Li CHN
3. Matt Savoie USA
4. Takeshi Honda JPN
5. Yamato Tamura JPN
5. Michael Weiss USA (iskater.com showed as 6th but Mary and Fran say tied for 5th)
7. Anthony Liu AUS

That is as far as I remember.

Mary and Fran say the decision to forget the quad was made this afternoon after Todd had a horrible practice session and got extremely frustrated. He left practice early. His warmup was much better with 3 flip/3 toe, 3 axel, and 2 3 lutzes after first doing a double.

But after the short he was really happy, doing the fist pump and pointing to faces he recognized in the crowd. He bowed to the non-judges side first. Paul Martini remarked on iskater.com that Todd got the only standing ovation of the night.

Other skaters:

Chengjiang Li landed quad toe and 3axel/3toe, but blew his 2 axel
Matt Savoie landed 3 flip/3 toe, 3 axel, and 3 flip
Michael Weiss landed a 3 toe instead of the quad and recovered by landing a
3 axel/3 toe, but had a struggle on the 2 axel

More from Fran and Mary later.

Christie
CASKM@aol.com