Figure Skating - Four Continents Championships 2016
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The inaugural day of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Taipei Arena in Taipei City, you & egrave; ended with the short program reserved for artistic couples.
Thursday 18 February 2016 6 minutes reading time
The race segment & egrave; was ennobled by a performance above the rows of Chinese Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, simply flawless on the technical side and did not banal, capable of skating "solo" on the note on the top from the first second. Students Hongbo Zhao, & nbsp; enhancing in an exemplary manner the choreography devised by Lori Nichol on the song "Spanish Romance", have private coach Continental's legendary record with an increase of over three points from the previous personal best & nbsp; Sui / Han, authors of a triple flip and launched a triple stun beauty twist, were the best of the lot on the technical front and on each of the components of the program entry. During the season, the only Olympic champions Volosozhar / Trankov were able to get a pi & ugrave score; high.
The expected Canadians Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford have had to settle for second coin with a separation from the head to the next seven points. Death spiral back apart, the defending champions have paid for each element sull''esecuzione duty presented and above all they have left on the plate heavy points due to the vacuum passage of Duhamel on the triple lutz in parallel, placing a hand landed on ice and judged short swing from the panel.
The provisional podium & egrave; was completed by the Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, lingered more than four points compared to the place of 'honor. The deputy national champions Stars and Stripes have performed a triple twist dall''altezza sidereal, but they messed sull''atterraggio the triple flip and triple salchow launched in parallel, completed by Knierim with the 'support of a hand on ice.
Afterwards, penalized by the fall of the girls on the triple toe loop in parallel, young Chinese Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin are placed with a gap of less than three points from the podium, and Canadians Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch. Both couples, however, have views subtract a point because of an inherent breach the total time of the program. & Nbsp;
In the fight for the position that matter, they are still involved even Americans Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran, sixth before pi & ugrave; quoted countrymen Tarah Kayne / Daniel O''Shea, remained lingered because of a fall on the triple salchow Kayne in parallel.
On the sidelines, ranging rimarcate the good performance of other Asian couple in the race, can improve to debut their personal records. In particular, North Korean Tae Ok Ryom / Ju Sik Kim, as well as having passed the minimum technical score to participate in the World Cup, we have brought to light for the quality & agrave; triple toe loop in parallel and the triple salchow launched. The Japanese Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet have, however, had the ability & agrave; to execute a flawless program worthy of note, but they have not submitted the triple twist.
The free program is disputer & agrave; Saturday starting at 07:30, Italian time.
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SHORT PROGRAM RANKING
1) CHN - Wenjing ON / Cong HAN78.51 (42.93 | 35.58) AR2) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD71.90 (37.36 | 34.54) 3) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM67.61 (36.79 | 30.82) 4) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN64.99 (35.85 | 31.14) - 2,005) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH61.97 (33.86 | 30.11) - 2006) USA - Marissa CASTELLI / Mervin TRAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 61.34 (33.78 | 28.56) - 1007) Tarah KAYNE / Daniel O SHEA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 59.72 (31.97 | 28.75) - 1,008) PRK - Tae Ok RYOM / Ju Sik KIM53.83 (29.19 | 24.64) NR9) JPN - Sumire SUTO / Francis Boudreau AUDET52.70 (28.61 | 24.09) PB10) CAN - Vanessa GRENIER / Maxime DESCHAMPS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 50.07 (25.69 | 25.38) - 1:00
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