2010 US Figure Skating Championships: Jeremy Abbott clinches the senior men's title

Jeremy Abbott (at right) dreamed of his perfect free skate when he was four years old. At last year's US Nationals where he won, he was ecstatic but knew that the program had the little errors here and there that made it not the "dream program." Well, his dream came true tonight at the 2010 AT&T U.S Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Washington. Whereas Evan Lysacek fell in his quad attempt and doubled his triple loop, and Johnny Weir singled his triple axel and stepped out of his triple Lutz - triple toe combination, Jeremy didn't make a single jumping error and was completely in his own world, maybe in his own dream!

After landing cleanly the quad, triple flip and triple axel - triple toeloop, the audience knew that he was telling them, "I'm here to win Nationals the way I dreamt it." When he then completed the jumping pass of triple Lutz - double axel - double toe, soared through the triple loop and triple salchow and showed us artistically why he is like no one else, the audience just went crazy. Domination is not too strong of a word. Afterwards, he told Andrea Joyce of NBC that this was "my first Nationals title, for real." 

The U.S. can send three men to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and there's no doubt they will be Jeremy, Evan and Johnny. A heartbreak for Ryan Bradley who had the second best free skate of the night but couldn't rack up enough points to make up for his short program, where he placed fourth.

Here are the final cumulative results posted below (SP= short program and FS= free skate) as well as the results for the free skate (T= technical elements and P= program components). Note: Stephen Carriere was forced to withdraw after the short program due to an injury. Following the results is a slideshow and video interview with Jeremy from earlier this year (after he won his first Nationals title).

Final standings

Rank	Name	SP	FS	Points
1	Jeremy Abbott, Detroit SC	87.85	175.81	263.66
2	Evan Lysacek, DuPage FSC	83.69	154.94	238.63
3	Johnny Weir, SC of New York Inc	83.51	148.58	232.09
4	Ryan Bradley, Broadmoor SC	70.63	155.34	225.97
5	Adam Rippon, SC of New York Inc	72.91	152.16	225.07
6	Brandon Mroz, Broadmoor SC	64.45	136.82	201.27
7	Grant Hochstein, St Clair Shores FSC	65.55	127.18	192.73
8	Armin Mahbanoozadeh, Washington FSC	72.56	118.42	190.98
9	Keegan Messing, Alaska Assoc of Figure Skaters	63.38	126.97	190.35
10	Jason Wong, Skating Club of Boston	64.56	121.90	186.46
11	Richard Dornbush, All Year FSC	65.79	118.49	184.28
12	Jonathan Cassar, Detroit SC	55.53	126.70	182.23
13	Tommy Steenberg, SC of Northern Virginia	59.17	120.04	179.20
14	Dennis Phan, All Year FSC	62.51	113.46	175.97
15	Douglas Razzano, Coyotes SC of Arizona	64.27	110.77	175.04
16	Parker Pennington, Winterhurst FSC	61.58	111.45	173.03
17	Alexander Johnson, Braemar-City of Lakes FSC	54.29	114.00	168.29
18	Andrew Gonzales, All Year FSC	62.38	104.87	167.25
19	Shaun Rogers, SC of Wilmington Inc	58.62	106.38	165.00
20	Michael Solonoski, SC of New York Inc	55.26	95.50	150.76
21	Wesley Campbell, Nashville FSC	55.98	90.98	146.96
22	Daniel Raad, Park FSC	49.32	78.06	127.38

Free skate results

1. Jeremy Abbott: 89.75 (T), 86.06 (P), total 175.81
2. Evan Lysacek: 74.28 (T),81.66 (P), with 1 deduction, total 154.94
3. Ryan Bradley: 81.20 (T), 74.14 (P), total 155.34
4. Adam Rippon: 79.38 (T), 72.72 (P), total 152.16
5. Johnny Weir: 71.24 (T), 77.34 (P), total 148.58
6. Brandon Mroz: 73.40 (T), 63.42 (P), total 136.82
7. Grant Hochstein: 64.76 (T), 63.42 (P), with 1 deduction, total 127.18
8. Keegan Messing: 66.67 (T), 60.30 (P), total 126.97
9. Jonathan Cassar: 61.56 (T), 66.14 (P), with 1 deduction, total 126.70
10. Jason Wong: 61.00 (T), 60.90 (P), total 121.90
11. Tommy Steenberg: 57.90 (T), 62.14 (P), total 120.04



12. Richard Dornbush: 61.27 (T), 58.22 (P), with 1 deduction, total 118.49
13. Armin Mahbanoozadeh: 58.00 (T), 62.42 (P), with 2 deductions, total 118.42
14. Alexander Johnson: 58.86 (T), 56.14 (P), with 1 deduction, total 114.00
15. Dennis Phan: 55.30 (T), 58.16 (P), total 113.46
16. Parker Pennington: 54.33 (T), 59.12 (P), with 2 deductions, total 111.45
17. Douglas Razzano: 55.85 (T), 55.92 (P), with 1 deduction, total 110.77
18. Shaun Rogers: 59.14 (T), 47.24 (P), total 106.38
19. Andrew Gonzales: 53.79 (T), 51.08 (P), total 104.87
20. Michael Solonoski: 48.36 (T), 47.14 (P), total 95.50
21. Wesley Campbell, 40.20 (T), 52.78 (P), with 2 deductions, total 90.98
22. Daniel Raad: 39.64 (T), 39.42 (P), with 1 deduction, total 78.06

NEW! Post-Nationals interview with Johnny Weir in NYC on January 20: