Coach Frank Carroll: “This is just frosting on the cake for me,” said Carroll, who coached Linda Fratianne and Michelle Kwan to silver medals and Timothy Goebel to a bronze. “It’s not something I coveted after a while. It was something I thought maybe would never happen.” Evan Lysacek wins men’s figure skating gold medal, upsetting defending champ Evgeni[ Read More... ]

And the Vancouver 2010 men's figure skating Olympic champion is...the reigning World Champion, USA's Evan Lysacek. He is the first American to win Olympic Gold since Brian Boitano in 1988, and the first for his coach Frank Carroll (former coach of Michelle Kwan, silver medalist of the 2002 Games). Results: Men Results after Long Program: 1. Evan Lysacek 257.67 2. Evgeni Plushenko 256.36[ Read More... ]

And the Vancouver 2010 men's figure skating Olympic champion is...the reigning World Champion, USA's Evan Lysacek. He is the first American to win Olympic Gold since Brian Boitano in 1988, and the first for his coach Frank Carroll (former coach of Michelle Kwan, silver medalist of the 2002 Games). Results: Men Results after Long Program: 1. Evan Lysacek 257.67 2. Evgeni Plushenko 256.36[ Read More... ]

Russia's Evgeny Plushenko is back on top, leading the pack again after 3 1/2 years retirement, with a clean high difficulty short program at the 2010 Vancouver Games. When's you're good, you're good. That's why the USA choosing committee gave the chance to Michelle Kwan (silver medal at the [COLOR=black]1998 Nagano Olympics[/COLOR] and a bronze medal in the [COLOR=black]2002 Salt Lake City[ Read More... ]

Just watched the mens long program on Universal Sports. Standings for top 3 same as short program: Jermey Abbott, Evan Lysacek, Johnny Weir. They will probably be the 3 to go to the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Men's standings after short program on Friday: Jeremy Abbott 87.85 points, 2009 world champion (and also won last month's Grand Prix finals) Evan Lysacek 83.85 points, and Johnny Weir 83.51 points. Free skate on Sunday to determine the 2010 U.S. Mens Figure Skating Team for the Vancouver Olympics! Some summary of the skates: [QUOTE] Abbott discovered Jeff Beck's version of "A Day in the Life"[ Read More... ]

Aleksei Yagudin (RUS) - 2002 SLC, Men's SP [youtube]f-LoZAZgHMk[/youtube] [quote]Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - 2002 Winter Games, Men's Short Program. The now legendary Winter program by Aleksei Yagudin (RUS), choreographed by Nikolai Morozov.[/quote] short program 2002 Olympics FS - Alexei Yagudin - MITIM [youtube]oFZx3sSB0qg[/youtube] [youtube]Alexei Yagudin - Gold medal performance at[ Read More... ]

Evan Lysacek's Long Program: [youtube]TWOmOG9L3ko[/youtube]

[quote]Picking the men

Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir both got the same score of 244.77, but because Evan's free skate was higher than Johnny's he got the gold. With the new system where points are given for skills (changed from the 10-point system) it is very unlikely - like Scott Hamilton puts it it's like flipping a coin ata football game and having it land on the edge. They showed Evan and Johnny hugging in[ Read More... ]