Alica LENGYELOVA (SVK) | Junior Women Free Skating | Gdansk 202

Our next skater representing Slovakia, Alisa Legilová. And Alisa making history as we said for Slovakia with a win in this short program. She will never find herself in this kind of situation in a Junior Grand Prix. She will skate the free program skating last to my way. Well, Mark, I think this is probably the strongest women's final Junior Grand Prix of the season, no doubt, maybe of the last few years. Just incredible and my respect for Alisa Legilová and her ability to produce like that at 10.15 at night as she has led over now a field, you know, following the history-making short program that she had just so, so incredible, so, so admirable because it would have been well within her understanding for a skater without this kind of experience to have crumbled. And I think instead of crumbling, she has thrived. And not only skating well or perfectly technically for herself, but she had emotion. She had choreography and the feeling of the connection to the music. She had it all. She didn't back down. She's 14 years old. And beautiful, beautiful movement. What fascinates me is that she had that double loop as part of the planned program content intentionally. She did that in her first Junior Grand Prix as well. But I like that the team, as we see this huge triple flip double toe, didn't change the plan despite what happened in the short program. Gorgeous softness in the triple loop straight into transitional content. That was impressive. And, you know, we saw her make mistakes on these jumps in a later stage of the competition when she competed last week. Not so when the pressure was greater now. Carried great flow throughout the program. And I think it actually picked up energy and momentum later on. She never, never budged from her mission from the first note to the last. Really a beautiful performance and show of strength. 14 years old. She's led for the first time in her life coming in the Junior Grand Prix final. She was hunted down, but she fought back in her free program with a clean skate. And I'm sure her sister, Olivia, who we've seen in the Junior Grand Prix, will be so, so proud, as will the family. And now, can she make history? No Slovakian woman has earned a medal in the IJS era before. Free program score 126.76. That's the season's best. It's third in the free program. And total competition score 191.53. She will take the silver. As she just discovered, as she just discovered. She wins the first medal for Slovakia. In the women's event. And there we see. And Sophie Jolene von Telten grabs the bronze medal.