Brian Orser looked to his new pupil, Yevgenia Medvedeva, and said what so many skating fans had to be thinking.
“Been a long 24 hours, huh?”
“Oh yeah,” Medvedeva responded, a wreath of flowers sitting atop her head.
The Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion recovered from the worst program of her senior career Friday with a strong but flawed free skate Saturday. It wasn’t enough to overtake countrywoman Elizaveta Tuktamysheva at Skate Canada.
Tuktamysheva fell on her triple Axel after hitting it in the short program but still totaled 203.