Figure SkatingPyeongChang 2018
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Star Russians in the short program of the female art of the PyeongChang Games.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 2 minutes reading time
The first to get on the ice of the best six, the last to skate, was Evgeniya Medvedeva that with 81.61 points has improved the world record that had recorded in the team competition, but about a quarter of an hour after his young compatriot Alina Zagitova, 16 years old, has amazed everyone and has torn the record with the stratospheric score of 82.92. Third place also with the personal best for the Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond with 78.87, same speech for the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, fourth with 75.94, and Kaori Sakamoto, fifth at 73.18.
Unfortunately, the only one who did not improve among the first six classified was Carolina Kostner, who is almost twice the age of Zagitova. The South Tyrolean instead of a conservative program that aimed at the bronze and leave the two unreachable Russian chose to be aggressive but missed the initial combination triple flip-triple toe loop with only double toe loop and then on triple Rittberger put his hand on the ice , just the double axel perfect. Result: it is sixth at 73.15, bronze is 5.72 points away but now it is very difficult to get there. Twenty-seventh and third of non-qualified to the free program Russian Jade.
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