1.   Simply staying on her feet would have also put Kwan in first place on a night when only two of the eight skaters managed clean routines.

2.   Both skated clean routines and split the first-place votes.

3.   Clean routine after clean routine, skaters ranked as low as ninth in the short program affirmed they would attempt the quad in the long program Thursday.

4.   Coming off a disappointing fourth-place overall and a bronze in the vault, Gogean fired off clean routines to frustrate Chorkina.

5.   Eric Millot of France, the local favorite, had a clean routine to come in third to Puccini music.

6.   He made a sloppy error on his double axel at the end of what was otherwise a clean routine.

7.   So he skated a clean routine that was efficient if not spectacular, at least until he closed it with a tight spin.

8.   So he skated a clean routine that was efficient if not spectacular, at least until he closed it with a trademark tight spin.

9.   Suguri won with a clean routine that featured five triple jumps and scored high on technical merit.