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Only the American Tara Lipinski in 1998 had won the Olympic gold in the artistic female figure skating, 15 years and 255 days, but Alina Zagitova's similar business today, which succeeds at 15 years and 281 days, remains the same sensational.
Friday 23 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
The young Russian brings the first gold of the PyeongChang 2018 Games to her country, forced to compete under the anonymous name of "Olympic Athletes of Russia", with a free superlative, with all the jumps in the second half of the program, and at the end he beat his compatriot and training partner Evgenia Medvedeva, two and a half years older, with a total score of 239.57, a new personal record, against 238.26. Incredibly, these two girls got the exact same score in the free program, 156.65, but the victory in this segment of the competition goes to Medvedeva for a better score on the artistic presentation of the program, the so-called components.
Lean consolation for a girl visibly disappointed for having been relegated to silver by a younger woman who arrived as a cyclone this year in the senior competitions of figure skating and who was the only one to beat her in the last two years, before Moscow Europeans last month and then on the most important occasion of life. It is worth remembering that Russia before Sochi 2014, when it succeeded the desaparecida splendid meteor Adelina Sotnikova, had never won an Olympic gold in the artistic female. The bronze goes to the Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond who got his personal records both in the short program and in the free, reaching a total score of 231.02, almost 13 points better than his previous record, which as regards the free has been shot down almost 10 points.
Behind the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, fourth, there is Carolina Kostner, the eternal 31 year old from Alto Adige has totaled 212.44 points, just over 4 lengths from her personal realized in Sochi despite a technically far from perfect but valued program as always from the artistic component, always the strong plate of the house. The bronze had seemed impossible after the short program but today the Gardena has gained a position, then we add that this season has gone beyond 200 points in a greater number of occasions than the rest of his career, five: reason in more to admire this champion than when she retires, if she ever does, we will regret a lot.
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