Nakai Ami Stuns to What A Wonderful World 🎶

One skater remains. She was the shock of the short program. 78.71 Nakai Ami. She has given hope to Japanese fans that there could be two athletes from their nation on the podium. What a wonderful skater. What a wonderful world. Trying for the triple axel and she's made it. To the lutz, triple lutz. Oh, wasn't able to make the double off it. It'll be a negative grade of execution but the lutz itself was good. And here we come to the salchow composure for a 17 year old. A beautiful spiral. The lutz again as a sequence to the double axel and a second double axel. Beautiful step sequence as you'd expect. A more fitting piece of music for the biggest skating performance in this Milano Cortina 2026 performance by a wonderful young woman. It's not going to make probably enough technical element score points but put all of that aside that is the beauty of the sport. The beauty of figure skating by the youngest competitor in the event. Nakai Ami says that she loves that it is music that gives hope and maybe this is the competition that has given hope for figure skating because we've seen athletes who own their performances, who own their careers and even better who own their lives. For this young woman it's only half a dozen senior competitive outings so far. What's to come? For Nakai Ami I think that that look on her face that she has right now at the beginning of that program and the same one that she finished at the very end is all we need to know about the health of the sport for these young people who are leading the way. The technical panel would be looking at some of these rotational issues in the jumps and here is the double toe that she was going to do off that looks that didn't quite work so it won't be that won't be counted the double toe won't be counted but the triple part of the triple looks will be. That was one of her better jumps the triple looks to the double axle three jump sequence. That's some joy that you would just like to bottle and then give away for free. The technical element score will be added to the program component score which is basically technical and artistic together. Is she wondering exactly what score will I get? 139.17 would put her on the podium 146.19 would put her in second place 148.08 would give her the lead. There is the leader she watches and wonders it's decision time Nakai Ami a 17 year old from Japan is a bronze medalist at the Olympic