Daniel GRASSL (ITA) | Men Short Program | ISU World Championships | Boston 2025 | #FigureSkating

So this young man finished seventh in the world championships back in 2022. He's been pretty solid this season, needs to be solid here. This is Daniel Grasso from Italy. Don't quite get the lift on the quad lutz, that should have been the combination. Amazing spin. Well if there were scores for the most original spin positions, he'd be at the top of the pile, wouldn't he? And technically this guy is really superb, but on the day he just couldn't find it, couldn't he? Couldn't get that rhythm going. Daniel Grasso who, to be honest, has left a little bit too much out there. He'll be disappointed today, two major errors. Italy will really want their two competitors here to finish high enough in the competition to earn a third spot for the Olympic Games in their home country. He's on the back foot now though, isn't he? I mean you're looking at somebody who's been close to 100 points in the short program and he's going to be over 80 or around 80, I would imagine at the end of the day. Let's take a look here, quad lutz. Has an attention to the edge and it's under rotated. Really not in the optimal air position, he needs a perfect takeoff. And says the loop is his most consistent quad, but unfortunately not today. This triple axle though was really nice, as you said Chris, it has so much length to it. Nice spiral transition before it as well and this was a unique and great spin position. He's going to go to an outside edge, he'll need to hold that for three revolutions to get that to count for a level from the technical panel. Yeah, some fantastic spins in the program but the jump's not really working for him today. All credit to him though for getting that triple toe on the end of the triple loop that should have been a quad. Now 87 is our leading score, he's not going to be there, can he get into the 80s? He needs to be, to be honest. Yes, 80.47 is fourth place. He obviously was hoping for an awful lot more than that but on the performance he couldn't have expected much more.