{"id":2169,"date":"2014-02-14T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2014-03-22T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:10:53","slug":"phs-martinez-with-early-lead-at-sochi-2014-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/14\/phs-martinez-with-early-lead-at-sochi-2014-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"PH’s Martinez makes history at Sochi 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martinez after finishing his men’s short program routine, Feb 13. Screenshot by author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UPDATE: 1:12 AM, Feb 15) As of posting, Michael Christian Martinez is currently in seventh place in men’s free skate event in Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics late Friday night (Feb 14, Manila time).<\/p>\n

Skating to the tune of Ernesto Lecuona’s “Malague\u00f1a,” Martinez earned a score of 119.44 for his routine, which lasted four minutes and thirty seconds. Making his Sochi 2014 performance a total of 184.25.<\/p>\n

Right at the start, the commentators commend Martinez for starting “like a rocket” with his nearly flawless jumps.<\/p>\n

On the first half of his routine, Martinez suffers a slight fumble but immediately recovers and went on to perform the rest of his routine with passionate determination.<\/p>\n

“He’s giving everything that he’s got… He’s fighting right to the finish,” one of the commentators mentioned as Martinez nears the end of his routine.<\/p>\n

When Martinez finished his routine, one of the commentators described his performance as “impressive.”<\/p>\n

Martinez, placing third after two skaters, Uzbekistan’s Misha Ge and Belarus’ Jorik Hendrickx, after the first eight skaters finished. However, after USA, Canada, Czechoslovakia, and France, \u00a0Martinez dropped to 7th place.<\/p>\n

He may not have the gold medal, but Martinez certainly made history by being the first and only Filipino delegate to the Winter Olympics in decades. The 17-year-old Olympian is also one of the youngest delagates to compete in Sochi and the first\u00a0Southeast Asian figure skater in the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: 1:12 AM, Feb 15) As of posting, Michael Christian Martinez is currently in seventh place in men’s free skate …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17],"tags":[35,235,236],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","category-news-w","tag-original","tag-sochi-2014","tag-winter-olympics","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}