Vincent Zhou stumbles at U.S. International Classic

Canada’s Nam Nguyen sits in first place after the short program at the U.S. International Classic competition in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday, marking the first true weekend of competition for the 2018-19 season. Nguyen totaled 80.28 points under the newly-implemented scoring system: -5 to +5 Grades of Execution, compared to the -3 to +3 scale used previously.

He leads Michal Brezina of the Czech Republic who scored 79.57 points and Ukraine’s Yaroslav Paniot with 74.97 points.

Jimmy Ma leads the American men, sitting fourth with 73.21 points. Vincent Zhou, who finished sixth at the PyeongChang Olympics, is sixth after scoring 61.72 points. Zhou had two invalidated jumps in his program,…