1.   He did a quadruple salchow that felt so good he tried a quad toe, but popped out of it on the first rotation.

2.   He fell hard on the quad toe, but he did not tumble out of first place as he won his fifth national title.

3.   Michael Weiss of the U.S. two-footed a quad toe in one of his best performances to place fourth.

4.   Pluschenko, who has won four of his five competitions this season, fell on his opening quad toe.

5.   Anthony Liu of Australia fell on his first jump, a quad toe.

6.   But he did hit a quad toe and won his qualifier with a superb finish that featured five strong triples.

7.   He did a quad salchow-triple toe loop combination and a solo quad toe later but fell on another attempt at a quadruple salchow.

8.   None of the men jumped higher than Russian Alexei Yagudin, who hit a quad toe and eight more triples.

9.   The salchow is more difficult than the quad toe looops that others do because the skater does not use the toe pick to boost his launch.

10.   Yevgeny Plushchenko, Alexei Yagudin, Li Chengjiang, Emanuel Sandhu and Zhang Min all did quad toes.