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Austrians have the most wonderful program.

Or if Austrians bomb out. But the likelihood of that is very low, since these pairs are guaranteed to get 10+ extra points over the Georgians on PCS alone.

I'd still like to know who those five are.

Aborted lift for the Georgians. Game over.

Hungary is through! One fall + one pop + one edge call ware enough. I got close enough.

Czechs got some really low levels for their lifts.

Hungary wins the first group. Small chance of Olympic qualification should one of the teams above bomb out. I'm talking three falls, or one fall + two pops, or something like that.

My Top 12 appears pretty fixed at this point, but considering I'll be away for the weekend, I will not send them at this point. Curious if anything will change come Monday.

Two Russians competing for Belarus is not as innocent as it appears. Should they qualify for the Olympics, there is a chance that Belarus will get a place on the judging panel, and we all know what that means...

Surely not the first time this has happened... I'd like to take a closer look at athletes who curiously achieved marathon standards, and then when the Olympics arrived, they were tens of minutes behind their PB. Something like this happened in the Croatian team as well, when we qualified a women's 4x400m relay for the European Championships. Anita Banović, our best 400 m runner at the time, was pretending to be her sister Marina Banović in a national race, so that they can both go to Zurich. They got busted and thrown out of the team.

This is becoming utterly ridiculous. Barring a massive turnaround tomorrow, we will end up first under the line in W RS:X, 49er FX and Nacra 17 Euro qualifiers !

Japan beating Canada in pairs (!) may be a sign of what to expect for the team event next year.

OQ simulation for the pairs after short program... 3 2 1 China, USA, Japan, Austria allowed to enter an additional pair for Nebelhorn.

Moore-Towers all over the place.

T/M not getting -5 GOE for a triple toeloop (3T) which they turned into a downgraded double toeloop (2T<<) is shameful as well...

S/H getting pretty much the highest score of the night for clearly out-of-synch spins is one of the lowlights of the night though...

And I thought our pair was a mess. First come the Dutch - a dumpster fire. Then the French - clearly out of place here.

I expected a fall, but two falls is just apsurd.

What are the odds of having a random song like "Nothing Else Matters" played for two pairs in succession?!

Czechs open the short program with some West Side Story. How very original.

Which would be a great shame, since they have not had a figure skater since 1976...

+3 quotas for

Interesting. Did not realize they finally changed the system which allowed one athlete to earn more than one place. Korea, Canada and Belgium can still lose their chance at Nebelhorn though.

OQ simulation after the ladies short program... 3 2 1 A convenient outcome for some of these nations, but I suspect that KOR, BEL, CAN can still drop a place. Trusova for example is truly favored in a free skate scoring system, so you'd expect her to leap far above some of these...

Crane out -> McKay in It would be a great surprise if anyone got out after this point, so this couod be it.