{"id":5103,"date":"2011-01-28T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:49:12","slug":"bradley-makes-season-debut-with-spectacular-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2011\/01\/28\/bradley-makes-season-debut-with-spectacular-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley makes season debut with spectacular short"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011uschampslogo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4861\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"2011 U.S. Championships\" src=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011uschampslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>STAFF REPORTS<br \/>\n<em>Figure Skaters Online<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>GREENSBORO, N.C. \u2014 Ryan Bradley just might end his career on top.<\/p>\n<p>After sitting out  the Grand Prix season, and contemplating retirement from competitive skating, Bradley entered the 2011 U.S. Championships in  Greensboro, N.C., because his fans begged him for just one more. Its  turning out to be the national championship to remember for the 27 year old showman  from St. Joseph, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>He has a two point advantage on 2009 and  2010 U.S. Champion Jeremy Abbott after the short program. And no, Abbott  was not bad. He was phenomenal, receiving a standing ovation, but  Bradley was even more spectacular, scoring 80.39 points to Abbott&#8217;s  78.39.<\/p>\n<p>Who needs Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir after all?<\/p>\n<p>Abbott  led for most of the competition following a powerful performance to  &#8220;Viejos Aires&#8221; that started with a triple flip-triple toe combination.  He also landed a triple Axel and triple Lutz before a fierce straight  line step sequence that brought traditional flamenco dancing to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley  kicked off his performance to &#8220;Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy&#8221; with a near  flawless quadruple toe-triple toe combination. After hitting his triple  Axel and sailing through the triple flip, he let out a little cheer and  then the real show began. His spins were pristine. His footwork was  flirty.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Mroz finished third with 71.61 points with Keegan  Messing (69.79) in fourth. Douglas Razzano nailed a quad to secure  fifth place with 69.61 points.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Rippon is currently in ninth place with 66.77 after falling on his  triple Lutz. Ross Miner (67.99), Richard Dornbush (67.71) and Armin  Mahbanoozadeh (66.77) are sixth, seventh and eighth. Grant Hochstein rounds out the top 10 with 65.76.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><em>Figure Skaters Online strives to be an accurate source of            information related to the sport of figure skating. To report an  error,           please e-mail the <\/em><em>news editor<\/em><em>. Include the article date      and title in your e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Bradley just might end his career on top. After sitting out the Grand Prix season, and contemplating retirement from competitive skating, Bradley entered the 2011 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, N.C., because his fans begged him for just one more. Its turning out to be the national championship to remember for the 27 year old showman from St. Joseph, Mo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}