Japan's Yuna Aoki is the suprise leader at Grand Prix de France

On the ice, representing Japan, Yuna Aoki. So a fist pump to get her underway. Winner of the Four Continents Championships last year. This is 24-year-old Yuna Aoki of Japan. Good word to stay on her feet there. Triple loop, triple loop. Difficult combination of the axle. Beautiful transitions out of it as well. Beautiful quality to the flip. Sensational. That's like a walk in the park, wasn't it? He enjoyed it. Mr. Candeloro, so much fun. Well, isn't it wonderful when a skater goes out there and it almost looks like there's not a care in the world, no pressure at all, when, you know, deep down inside there's plenty of pressure. It's amazing how the different athletes cope with that. And obviously she's so well prepared coming into this Grand Prix here. So very well done to the team around her. The program's choreographed this season by Caitlin Weaver and Shaylin Bourne. What a great job they've done. Yeah, that looks a little short to me. And often it helps the loop if you're slightly under-rotated, but you can't do that with the way that the system works. I think she's going to get a call on that, looks. Loved the wind-up into the flip, clean as a whistle on that. Beaming smile, never left her face, all the way through the program. Wonderful feel for the music, great body movement. I really made sure on the spins as well. I couldn't see a mistake there. Remember, you've got to be solid for two rotations in any of the features that you do within the spins, and everybody looking to do four different features in each of the three spins. So 58.61 is her best score. 76.31, that's huge. That is a new personal best. Her personal best was 71.41. She got that in the Four Continents Championships where she won last season. Huge score of Japan. Well done.