"the best by leaps and bounds"

The man going to his first Winter Games, Jeremy Abbott, may find it hard to top what he did.

And he may not need to, for Abbott's free skate was such a tour de force it not only turned an expected close competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships into a rout but was easily good enough to win an Olympic medal -- even gold.

If he can do it again, that is.