Figure skating - Nebelhorn Trophy 2014
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Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov, determined at all costs to revive the glories of the past, won dispersion for the forty-sixth edition of the Nebelhorn Trophy with two convincing evidence superlative many skeptics on their behalf.
Friday 26 September 2014 7 minutes reading time
After you set in the first part of the race, the Russian veterans, absent from competition from & rsquo; away now March 2013, dominated the free program taking the lead to abysmal qualified competition.
Filed the intractable elements in parallel jump, landed with some heartache too much from & rsquo; Kavaguti now thirty-two, the students of Tamara Mosvkina have completed a quadruple salchow launched and, above all, have performed lifting characterized by inputs and outputs and the original complex. The main deburring & egrave; come, as in the best days in the output phase of the triple twist, but it does not in any way compromise a huge test of solidity & agrave; the elements of the pair.
Nell & rsquo; occasion, Kavaguti / Smirnov (195.89), took to the runway to the tune of classical & ldquo; Manfred Symphony & rdquo; Tchaikovsky, have created a vacuum on the technical front and on each item of the components of the program, setting a new record for the season.
In second place, with all the primates of race retouched, were placed young Russians Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (178.98), betrayed by the errors in the free program, equally, on the elements of jump in parallel and by an unusual passage Vacuum lifting the group final three, probably determined by fatigue. Smudges aside, the athletes emerging award-winning company Mozer, accompanied kiss & amp; cry dall''assistente coach Robin Szolkowy, performed by a triple twist & rsquo; sidereal height of beauty and stun have distinguished themselves in the difficult lifts positive group of five, including the reverse period that has never been part of the technical background of Kavaguti / Smirnov.
Al l & agrave; today's result, one of the major themes of the first part of the season & will agrave; no doubt the fight among the many Russian couples hunting for the convocation for the European Championships. Granted the status of untouchables of Volosozhar / Trankov and assuming that Antipova / Maisuradze will not be in the game this season, promises to be a clash between the fratricidal Stolbova / Klimov and couples who have dominated the Nebelhorn, not to mention the ambitious Enbert / Davankova.
Returning to the race in Oberstdorf, on the step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium, the Americans were reconfirmed Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim (166.10), which in both segments of the race preceded by an & rsquo; gluing the French Vanessa James / Morgan Cypres (164.56). The winners of the first leg of the ISU Challenger Series have proposed for the & rsquo; umpteenth time a test with two faces. In fact, the usual disasters on the jumps in parallel (Knierim fall on the triple salchow and double axel on Scimeca), was offset by a convincing triple twist, lifting of the highest quality & agrave; and impeccable elements of torque.
The association transalpine, however, had the merit of completing a good triple salchow in parallel, but lost points on the heavy end of the program mulling on raising group three today strangely indigestible for many.
The fifth & egrave; was conquered by the emerging Canadian Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps (157,06), which had a noticeably better against the Americans Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage (143.85), revealing solidity & agrave; technique on most of the elements, triple twist excluded.
Afterwards, they placed the Japanese Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara (134.59), remained roughly on the level of last season, and the British Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadij (123.04), which in the free program are not able to obtain the technical minimum to earn l & rsquo; & agrave stand as a candidate; in view of the & rsquo; upcoming Grand Prix.
In the ranking of the & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series, the first place & egrave; occupied by the Americans Scimeca / Knierim (329.34), which precede their compatriots Aaron / Settlage (282.37). However, the two North American couples are temporarily benefited from having taken part in two stages. If, on the other hand, if he makes a speech of individual performance, lead the list Russians Kavaguti / Smirnov (195.89) in front of compatriots Tarasova / Morozov (178.98).
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