Grassl makes his Olympic debut a success

The young South Tyrolean entered the competition with the aim of positioning himself in the top 10. This task is by no means easy, because the competition is huge. On Tuesday, Grassl didn't offer a squeaky-clean, but still very good performance, which lifted him to twelfth place.

The young South Tyrolean was given a special honor at the Capital Indoor Stadium. He was able to open the last group of the world's best figure skaters. Lorenzo Magri's protégé seemed unimpressed and started with a seasoned quadruple Lutz. However, the judges recognized an impurity, which is why they deducted valuable points from the South Tyrolean. As a result, Grassl carried out his program to the music of “Nureyev” impeccably. Good score The youngster ultimately scored 90,64 points. On the one hand he was annoyed because he received 91,75 points at this year's European Championships, but on the other hand there was reason to be happy because he had improved compared to him Team competition (88.10). The gap to fourth place is less than nine points.

Nathan Chen is in the lead. © APA/afp / SEBASTIEN BOZON

As expected, in the top field there is a duel between the American Nathan Chen and a Japanese. However, this Japanese is not the double Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, but the 19-year-old Yuma Kagiyama. Chen leads after the short program with 113,97 points, but his competitor is close on his heels with 108,12 points. The freestyle takes place on Thursday from 2.22:XNUMX a.m. (CET).

Short program, the result: Pos Name Country Points 1. Nathan Chen USA 113,97 points 2. Yuma Kagiyama Japan 108,12 3. Shoma Uno Japan 105,90 4. Junhwan Cha South Korea 99,51 5. Morisi Kvitelashvili Georgia 97,98 6. Jason Brown USA 97,24 7. Evgeny Semenenko Russia 95,76 8. Yuzuru Hanyu Japan 95,15 9. Keegan Brass Canada 93,24 10. Kevin Aymoz France 93,00 12. Daniel Grassl Merano 90,64

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Grassl makes his Olympic debut a success

Daniel Grassl once again delivered a convincing performance at his Olympic debut - even if the 19-year-old was not completely satisfied with his performance in the short program.

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