Figure skating - Four Continents, 2014, Taipei City
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The Chinese Wenjing Sui and Cong Han have dominated the race of the Four Continents Championships reserved for couples of artistic leaving a bitter taste in the'' public'' insiders for the forced absence during the upcoming Olympic Games.
Friday 24 January 2014 4 minutes reading time
The three times World Champions, juniors, filed a short program and free of burrs especially thick technician, were reconfirmed on absolute levels of fluency in the segment longer than projecting a race scores achieved by a select few in the course of history.
The students of Zhao Hongbo, the second successful career in'' event, they doth quality on each item presented the opening free with a quadruple twist to follow and have already run smoothly jump elements in parallel (combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / triple salchow and double toe loop), a known and certainly not the dish of the house.
'' In opportunity, Sui / Han have improved every type of hoisting a personal best 212.40 eloquent, score in the all-time ranking places them just behind the Volosozhar / Trankov (237.71), Savchenko / Szolkowy (227 , 03), Shen / Zhao (216.57), Pang / Tong (215,97) and Kavaguti / Smirnov (213.15).
It should be noted how in Taipei City, China has obtained the twelfth victory in sixteen editions of the Four Continents Championships.
'' The place of honor is going to surprise the Americans Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'' Shea, who, after a fall of unusual'' O'' Shea at the end of the triple twist, were impeccable on each element of gaining a position Ranked thanks to the black day of jumps in parallel and launched Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim.
At the foot of the podium stood the Americans Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, able to touch the personal record despite a disastrous fall on the triple Rittberger launched the free program.
Afterwards, you are placed Canadians Natasha Purich / Mervin Tran, who preceded margin compatriots Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro and the Chinese Wenting Wang / Zhang Yan.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CHN) - Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN 212.40 (1 | 1) 2) (USA) - Tarah KAYNE / Daniel O SHEA 181.45 (3 | 2) 3) (USA) - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim 170.35 (2 | 4) 4) (CAN) - Haven Denney / Brandon FRAZIER , 167.10 (4 | 3) 5) (CAN) - Natasha Purich / Mervin TRAN 147.80 (7 | 5) 6) (CAN) - Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO 139.99 (5 | 7) 7) (CHN) - WANG Wenting / Yan ZHANG 139.95 (6 | 6)
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