Olympic figure skating favorite Yevgenia Medvedeva, imperfect by her standards, still won her first international competition of the season by a whopping 36.74 points on Saturday.
The Russian tallied 146.72 points in her free skate at Nepela Trophy in Slovakia — lower than her median score over her two-year winning streak — and 226.72 points overall. Video is here. Full scores are here.
Medvedeva had a wrong edge call on her triple Lutz, stepping out of the landing. Judges gave her a negative grade of execution for it, snapping a streak of more than 60 straight jumps with positive grades dating to November.