Men's Short Program | Olympic Games Vancouver 2010

NBC commentary by Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond.

Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually.
Men's singles and women's singles, along with the other figure skating disciplines of pair skating, ice dance, and synchronized skating, are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU).

There are two segments in all international competitions, the short program and the free skating program. Singles skating has required elements that skaters must perform during a competition and that make up a well-balanced skating program. They include jumps, spins, step sequences, and choreographic sequences. Compulsory figures, from which the sport of figure skating gets its name, was a crucial part of the sport for most of its history until the ISU voted to remove them in 1990. The required elements must be performed in specific ways, as described by published communications by the ISU, unless otherwise specified. The ISU publishes violations and their points values yearly. Deductions in singles skating include violations in time, music, and clothing, as well as regulations regarding falls and interruptions.

Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested at the Olympics, with men's and women's single skating appearing as two of the four figure skating events at the London Games in 1908.