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free skate
noun
a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
Example Sentences
Ranked third after Friday's short programme, her free skate score of 141.74 was the highest of the night and enough to shoot her to gold with a final tally of 214.78.
But repeated practice mutes that reflex for skaters like Ilia Malinin, the American who was the first person to land a quadruple axel in competition and whose 2024 World Championship free skate score was the highest ever.
Valieva, then 15, finished fourth with a mistake-filled free skate under intense pressure from the legal issues.
The ISU removed Valieva’s points — a maximum 10 for her team in each of the short program and free skate — but did not add a point to the tally of other teams who subsequently rose in the event standings.
She completed seven triple jumps without a single negative grade of execution from any of the nine judges; though she did a triple flip-double axel-double axel sequence instead of a triple-triple combination, she racked up 138.85 points, a personal best and three points better than Glenn’s free skate routine.
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