Great history made by Michael Martinez at Sochi Olympics
He made an Olympic history for the Philippines and Southeast Asia by competing in Sochi, garnered a score of 119.44 in the free program.
He has a total score of 184.25 points for the short and free programs, which allowed him to take an early lead.
Unfortunately, Martinez dropped out of the medal race after performances by the US' Jeremy Abbott (1st), Belarus' Jorik Hendrickx (2nd), Uzbekistan's Misha Ge (3rd) and France’s Florent Amodio (4th).
As of posting time, 14 other figure skaters including those from Japan, Canada, and China, have yet to perform in the free skating round.
Martinez who performed to the tune of Ernesto Lecuona's Malaguena, was the third performer among the 24 in the free program event.
The 17-year-old looked more daring this time, doing triple axels, triple double toes, double flip, and lot more presentation towards the judges' side.
He finished 19th a field of 30 during the preliminaries on Thursday. This made him to march to the free program, which is the medal round of the men’s figure skating event.
He became the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to qualify in the Winter Olympics men’s figure skating.
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