Figure skating - Four Continents, 2013, Osaka
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The fifteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium opened with the short dance.
Friday 8 February 2013 4 minutes reading time
From the beginning, there have been surprises as Canadians Virtue / Moir have inflicted the first defeat of the season, albeit in a single program, to statunitesi Davis / White, so far imbattutti in each segment of the race approached.
The defending World Champions and defending champions have improved in'' at their personal best, crossing for the first time in his career the wall of the 75 points. The partial success has been built on the technical side. In particular, the key turned out to be the midline no touch at which, without ever happened for no pair in season, Virtue / Moir have reached level four. Davis / White, however, were the best of the day on the sequences of yankee-polka where they stored the maximum available unlike rivals, They stop at level three on the second sequence. The winners of the'' last final of the Grand Prix also preceded by a narrow margin training mates on the sum of the components of the program.
'' In light of today's balance, free dance will conclude the Four Continents promises hard to read and clearly open to any scenario.
In third place are the Americans, school Shpilband, Chock / Bates who again fellow countrymen Shibutani / Shibutani, Zueva school, but, in contrast to what happened in the National leagues, they managed to get the better of both scores.
The fifth place is occupied by the Canadian Gilles / Poirier, for the first time in his career more than sixty points in a class race.
Definitely more to pull out the other eight pairs in the race, all below the minimum technical score to take part in the upcoming World Championships. It should however be noted that the Japanese Reed / Reed, ranked sixth, that Canadians Orford / Willimas, seventh, on other occasions have exceeded the threshold of 29 points, valid for guadaganare'' s eligibility for the World Championships in London
RANKING-SHORT DANCE 01) 75.12 (CAN) Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (PB) 02) 74.68 (USA) Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 03) 65.44 (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (pb) 04 ) 63,96 (USA) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 05) 60.20 (CAN) Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER (PB) 06) 53.97 (JPN) Cathy REED / Chris REED 07) 53.70 (CAN) Nicole ORFORD / Thomas WILLIAMS 08) 48.81 (AUS) Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN (PB) 09) 44.72 (JPN) Emi HIRAI / Marien DE LA ASUNCION (PB) 10) 43.32 (UZB) Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor Kovalenko 11) 43.17 (CHN) Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG 12) 33.90 (JPN) Bryna OI / Taiyo MIZUTANI (PB) 13) 33.37 (MEX) Pilar MAEKAWA MORENO / Leonardo MAEKAWA MORENO
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