Figure Skating - Ice Challenge 2014
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The forty-first edition of & rsquo; Ice Challenge, hosted dall''Eishalle Graz Liebenau, you & egrave; ended with the women's free program, which gave the United States the third win in four races.
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The segment of the race & egrave; state, in each case, characterized by errors of various sorts and, in general, from a technical level overall well below the expectations.
The final victory & egrave; went to the US Hannah Miller (156.39), gi & agrave; second in late September in the Lombardy Trophy in Sesto San Giovanni, where & ograve; had expressed on many other levels. The eighteen year stationed in Michigan had the merit to go up from fourth position occupied at the end of a disastrous short program, but also in the segment pi & ugrave; not long race & egrave; been immune from errors and, in particular, & egrave; seemed to limit the rotation of almost all elements of jump presented. Eventually, if the Miller & rsquo; & egrave; got away with three triples under rotated and a degraded, but the situation could have been even worse. From point out, however, the quality & agrave; of spins, inverted in particular, the absolute best in the race.
In second place, it & egrave; placed the Swedish Isabelle Olsson (152.85), able to improve the record of official race of over twenty-three & eacute; points and is now ready to make life difficult for the sisters Helgesson, long at the top of the movement Scandinavian. The twenty-one M & ouml; rrum, third after the short program, completed in the free double axel and five triple jumps, including two lutz, and presented spins built and executed to achieve the level pi & ugrave; high available.
On the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; accommodated surprise l & rsquo; yet fifteen Hungarian Ivett Toth (151.18), to debut on the international stage in a senior competition. Moreover, for the & rsquo; student of Julia Sebsetyen no shortage of reasons for recrimination as he lost the train to the victory due to a combination double toe loop / double toe loop that was supposed to be triple toe loop / double toe loop, and that mockery of a mockery , & egrave; was canceled by the computer as previously was gi & agrave; was presented a double toe loop. Beyond the & agrave; of misadventure, Toth has still completed two double axel and five triple jumps, including two lutz, without forgetting the feeling with the spinners all arrive at level four.
The main disappointment of the race is named after the Russian Alena Leonova (148.29), completely up abode after a thrilling start to the season, characterized by convincing second place in the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, where he had touched the one hundred and ninety points. L & rsquo; now twenty-four student Evgeni Rukavitsin, unanimously considered the favorite for success, not & egrave; gone beyond the fourth mulling over all the elements of jump presented in the free program. On balance, the winner of yesterday's short & egrave; managed to complete a dignified a double axel and two triples, falling on a triple Rittberger and under turning everything that you could rotate under. Leonova is & egrave; saved by the skin of our teeth from the bully back of fifteen German Lutricia Bock (148.13), author of the second free program with two double axel and seven triple jumps presented, including a combination triple flip / triple toe loop and a salchow under rotated.
L & rsquo; waiting Slovak Nicole Rajcova (133.67), back from good evidence in the stages of the Junior Grand Prix, you & egrave; had to settle for sixth place, penalized in the free program from a black day on the triple lutz, regular strength.
The sixteen year old blue Guia Maria Tagliapietra (110.32) has, however, lost four positions and finished the race in ninth place. Have proved fatal three falls, including one on the triple lutz initial somehow & ldquo; broken legs & rdquo; the national junior champion. Free dell & rsquo; pupil of Romina Poli remains, however, decidedly ambitious and andr & agrave; carefully assessed when they will come & agrave; achieved the best physical condition. Among the positive aspects of the trip to Graz, you can not & ograve; for & ograve; forget the technical limit to participate in the World Cup passed in the short program and the spinners who have reached the level pi & ugrave; high available.
As for the rankings of & rsquo; Isu Challenger Series, the victory in the women & egrave; in fact now assigned to the Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, cos & Igrave; like the one in the dance to the brothers Shibutani. In the men, is leading the American Ross Miner, who will have & agrave; defend themselves from & rsquo; attack of fifteen Russian Alexander Petrov joined the Warsav Cup. Among the pairs of artistic, Americans Scimeca / Knierim occupy the first position.
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