The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Isabeau Levito USA · Women's singles, free skate · 2026/27

Skate Canada International 2026, the program's best Composition mark so far. Video on YouTube.

Elements

Skate Canada International 2026, free skate · 11 elements · 65.42 technical points
2 elements in the season's top 5 1 rare element
  1. 13Lz+3LoTriple Lutz + triple loop Rare: only 2 skaters this season · also Yuna Aoki10.80+1.3512.15
  2. 22ADouble Axel No. 4 of 33 this season3.30+1.044.34
  3. 33TTriple toe loop4.20+1.085.28
  4. 4CCoSp3Change foot combination spin, level 33.60+1.495.09
  5. 53F+Eu+3S+2A+SEQxTriple flip + Euler + triple Salchow + double Axel (sequence)14.19−1.8912.30
  6. 61Lzx0.66−0.120.54
  7. 73FqxqTriple flip5.83−0.615.22
  8. 8ChSq1Choreographic sequence, level 13.50+1.434.93
  9. 9StSq4Step sequence, level 44.10+1.415.51
  10. 10ChSp1Choreographic spin, level 13.50+1.575.07
  11. 11FCSp4Flying camel spin, level 4 No. 3 of 53 this season3.80+1.194.99

Points are the base value plus the GOE, the judges' mean grade of execution without the highest and lowest mark. Each square is one judge's grade, -5 to +5. x: second half, +10%. q: landed on the quarter. ★ marks an execution among the season's five best of its kind, out of at least 10. ◆ marks an element at most three skaters skate this season and worth at least the usual base value of its kind.

About the program

In July, Isabeau Levito announced a Pirates of the Caribbean free by Benoit Richaud. Then came an injury from a bad fall at Stars on Ice. She went about four months without jumping and only restarted in mid-August.

"I was struggling so hard just to do my triples on their own," she told Golden Skate. She and her federation went with something more achievable: Michel Legrand's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

At Skate Canada it scored 133.72, sixth in the free, though she held on for bronze at 212.22. She stepped out of the flip-Euler-Salchow sequence and popped the Lutz.

Fans on r/FigureSkating loved the first half, and some still miss the Pirates idea. Plenty argued Saki Miyake deserved that bronze.

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