I almost never watch figure skating except during the Olympics, but I watched the last few of the men - the giant Italian Memola, who surprised me at how nimble he was at 6'5", and then Jason Brown, who I enjoyed and usually don't - I know he's supposed to be sublime but seems sort of stiff/butt stuck too far out... oh I don't know, not my style and he doesn't do quads, though his triple axles were very nice... he did his job, ended up 5th and secured 3 spots for America next worlds. Then Lukas Britschgi who did fine, finished fourth, congrats Switzerland.
Then I had to watch my favorite, Shoma Uno, bomb. Oh well, at 26, guess he's worn out but he torques that knee so bad when he lands - I think it's ok that he retires as 2 time world champ and multiple Olympic medals, before he destroys himself. Then Yuma Kagiyama who the drag-queen-styled Johnny Weir (as usual) and chatterbox Tara Lipinski orgasmed over - he's oh I guess but please fix that acne. And the GOD of the evening indeed, quadgod Ilia Malinen, landed a perfect quad axel and five other quads, including two quad lutzes! I didn't even mind his choreo sequence, thought it was energetic and snappy, and of course, as everybody exults, soooo masculine! Which sort of means adhd I think.
The third American, Camden Pulkinen, disappointed, ending up 20th of 24. And both of Canada's boys were hopeless, gorgeous Roman Sadovsky finishing 22nd and Wesley Chiu was 16th. How the mighty have fallen. Their only woman, Maddie Schizas, finished in 18th place, so other than ice dance, I guess they well and truly suck. We've all been there.
Sorry to go on and on, but I won't be doing this often - probably never again. It's too hard to find the damn schedule and I don't really care that much, since the scrumptious Takahashi and Hanyu retired, but it was fun, as a one off.