Kaori SAKAMOTO (JPN) | Women Short Program | Angers 2025 | #GPFigure

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on the ice representing Japan, Kawi Sakamoto. So, last to go. She’s been world champion no less than three times. Bronze medalist in the Olympic Winter Games as well, the wonderful Caori Sakamoto of Japan. Sarah Brightman and Andre Belli provide the music. Time to say goodbye. You can see a little bit late with the free leg coming out of that triple loots, but it was clean enough. I don’t try to say goodbye. It’s time to see. Just incredible length on that double axle. And there’s the combination. might What a brilliant way to end this women’s short program. Well, if this is a sign of things to come, we are in for one heck of a season and I can’t wait. Wasn’t that fabulous? Now, Caori, of course, opting to put the combination in the second half of the program. One of the jump passes can get an extra 10%. And if you’ve got the guts, if you’ve got the courage to put the combination in the second half, then uh you’re maximizing your possible points. But you’ve got to have nerve to steal to do that. And of course, she’s got nerves like nobody else. Been there, done it. Read the book, written the book. So there’s that looks at the beginning and you see she was a little uncomfortable with the free leg coming out of that but she has a magnificent knee bend on all of her jumps which gives her that extra split second to get the free leg back and maintain control and she needed it on that first jump pass. I think the weight was a little far back on the axle as well. But there’s the combo second half of the program and gets that extra 10%. So she gets nearly 12 points for the combination and uh in a competition like that it could be key. Remember the leading score at the moment 78 points. Second place Isabolvito on 73.37 and third Rion Sumoshi on 71.03. This is going to be in the 70s. But where in the 70s? She has so much speed across the ice. I tell you what to get in the way of her going into that combination. She comes thundering down the ice. Here we go. Oh yeah. 76.20. That will do very, very nicely. And I can tell you the program felt a lot worse than it looked. Sometimes when you’re in the jumps and you’ve got to work that hard, it can feel terrible. But the overall impression, the impression that we got was not what she was feeling. I can tell you that.