Ami Nakai of Japan defends her women's title at Grand Prix de France

Here we go, the battle for the medals is on now. Lying in third place, the bronze medalist from the Army, Nakai. How did she hang on to that? Goodness me, triple axel. A fantastic combination, triple lutz, triple toe. She's on the money, solid on that triple flip. She keeps it going. That's her sequence. Triple loop and a couple of double axels. Made sure of that, that's the triple lutz. One to go for a full house. and she makes it never a doubt just listen to that quite incredible and now the realization of what she's just achieved it was a phenomenal skate remember she won here 12 months ago in Angers so much fun well has she done enough there with that performance to win gold here back to back in Angers. She's six points, just under six points behind the leader, Aoki. She could not have done any more, left it all out on the ice. She's thrown that gauntlet about three miles down the road. The two skaters we've got to go have got to be right on the money. How she found that right foot, I will never know. But she did, and that set her off on her way. It's the only element that was reviewed by the technical panel. I suppose they had to do something and they gave her an edge warning on that. Looked pretty straight. Left foot should be on an inside edge on the flip. But just looking down, the GOEs are huge on every single element. It's going to be a monster score. Can she possibly beat her personal best score, which she got here last year? 149.08 was her score. A season's best is 127.45. going to blow that right out of the water there's no doubt about it Ami Nakai likes it here in Angers so she needs 131.72 to go in the lead or more she's going to do that hands down exactly the same score as she got last year 149.08 so she matches her personal best score