JGPF: Men's FS - Thoughts and Highlights

gsk8 · Dec 7, 2018

Canada's Stephen Gogolev, who was an alternate for the Junior Men's event, managed to capture gold at the 2018-19 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) Final in his first season on the circuit. With nearly 15 points to spare. Petr Gumennik of Russia moved up from third to take silver, while Japan's Koshiro Shimada earned the bronze.

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I just want to give Stephen a big hug :cheer2:

ice coverage · Dec 7, 2018

Congratulations to Stephen, Petr, and Koshiro. :bow:

I want to give Camden a big hug. :ghug:

Not his day.

BillNeal · Dec 7, 2018

Gogo went for the gold!

Glad to see that he turned things around from the first time in Vancouver. Stephen at age 13, in his first JGP season, as the first alternate wins by almost 15 points, wow!

Tahuu · Dec 7, 2018

Gogolev acts mature and humble in K&C/the interview. Congrat!

SnowWhite · Dec 7, 2018

Stephen was so cute realising he'd won <3.

zanadude · Dec 7, 2018

Has an alternate ever won a GPF/JGPF before?

Mr Cat · Dec 7, 2018

Well at least Camden has +5 GOE eyebrows

hanyuufan5 · Dec 7, 2018

Goes to show you that anyone can have a bad day, and it doesn't mean they're bad at what they were doing on that day. It was not Stephen's day at Richmond. It was at Vancouver. Congratulations!

gsk8 · Dec 8, 2018

Camden was clearly very disappointed in what he put out on the ice.

“I think it was a learning lesson for me because I trained the short program so well in so many consistent run-throughs, and the long (program) hasn’t been there in training as much as I would have wanted it to be,” said the JGP Czech Skate silver medalist. “This is a reminder for me to really put importance on both programs. I think skating after Stephen (Gogolev), if I had trained a little better and had more clean repetitions, I would have had a better outcome here, so I just learned from it today.”

ice coverage · Dec 8, 2018

gsk8 said:
Camden was clearly very disappointed in what he put out on the ice.

Agree. Thanks for the quotes from Camden.

Wondering why the article identifies Camden as "JGP Czech Skate silver medalist" -- with no mention of his higher placement this season of JGP Linz champion??

Whereas Stephen is identified as JGP Bratislava champion and Adam is identified as JGP Armenia champion, although they each had a lower placement at another JGP.

gsk8 · Dec 8, 2018

Nothing untoward was meant. It was already mentioned in the SP article and I didn't want to be redundant.

eaglehelang · Dec 8, 2018

Wow, Gogolev is only 13 and did a 4Lutz!
Plus 4T and 4S. That's even more quads than what some of the senior men are doing

zanadude · Dec 8, 2018

eaglehelang said:
Wow, Gogolev is only 13 and did a 4Lutz!
Plus 4T and 4S. That's even more quads than what some of the senior men are doing

More than what most of the senior men are doing...

But of course, some junior ladies are doing more quads than all of the senior ladies are doing...

satine · Dec 8, 2018

zanadude said:
More than what most of the senior men are doing...

But of course, some junior ladies are doing more quads than all of the senior ladies are doing...

Quads/3A are awesome when adult skaters perform them, even more so when juniors do. But what is even more exciting is a junior that keeps a quad jump (or 3!) through to adulthood. I am so excited to see if the current batch of juniors can transition into senior competition in the impressive form they're currently in

Tolstoj · Dec 8, 2018

Gogolev was indeed really impressive: his quads look a little like Shoma's quads (barely fully rotated and with prerotation) but that's understandable given the age. I'm not a fan of his programs (no facial expression, the program just goes on and on) but the talent is certainly there. It will be interesting to see his development cause he's still young, a lot can happen by the time he turns into seniors.

Poor Petr was a bit underscored here, GOE not as big as he usually gets even on spins, but i think he's the most talented russian skater i've seen in juniors in like a decade? Consistency, performance, great posture and great spinner. He's working well with the quads, 4S was a beauty here, he should try the 4T or 4lo for the next season.

el henry · Dec 8, 2018

Juniors who can perform with skill elegance and grace warm my heart. I don’t want to worry if a skater will keep jumps. And jumps qua jumps are not important to me.

So I want to give a shout out to Koshiro, who has the elegance, skating skills and performance to carry him through to seniors. Not to mention Stéphane.

I’m sorry he made the podium due to Camden’s and Tomoki’s bad skates, but that’s sport and that’s the junior men.

You can’t predict them, you can’t rely on them from comp to comp, and that’s what makes them so great

Congrats to all the medalists :clap:

Colonel Green · Dec 8, 2018

Gogo is now the youngest men's JGP Final champion, knocking almost a full year off of the record previously held by Yuzuru Hanyu.

xeyra · Dec 8, 2018

Congrats to Stephen for coming in as an alternate and then winning it all. We knew you could do it! Congrats on the silver, Petr, and the bronze, Koshiro!

Sabrina · Dec 12, 2018

zanadude said:
Has an alternate ever won a GPF/JGPF before?

As far as I know it was also a Canadian, Emanuel Sandhu and he was a substitute, and won the title.

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