Figure skating - Nebelhorn Trophy 2014
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The American Jason Brown won the men's race success in the forty-sixth edition of the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, improving the second place twelve months ago.
Friday 26 September 2014 8 minutes reading time
The nineteen year old Californian (237.17) & you egrave; easily imposed in both segments of the race, but confirmed the doubts about his competitiveness & agrave; in absolute terms.
In today's free, l & rsquo; student of increasingly & ugrave; popular Kori Ade has highlighted some limitations too many elements to jump out a loser in the battle with the triple axel, historically the weakest point. On first attempt, & egrave ;, fact, failure part of rotation, while in the second occasion l & rsquo; landing & egrave; been on two feet with rotation still missing. In truth, Brown & agrave ;, has successfully completed only four of the eight triples proposed, but has partially remedied the bad day on the jumps performing spins of excellent workmanship and quality, however, revealing a & agrave; Skating far superior to that of the competition. Not surprisingly, the American national vice-champion has created a vacuum on each item of the program components distinguished by the richness of the steps of transition, the ability & agrave; always remain on the note and the choreography by no means trivial, aspects that & ograve; make more & ugrave; complex l & rsquo; approach to the elements of jump
Day d & rsquo; Today, willy-nilly, do not have a quad, without having fully mastered the triple axel, is a huge handicap for skaters on the rest complete just as Jason Brown, who, in the presence of athletes of the first band, not have valid weapons to be able to keep up. In particular, if on one hand the American & egrave; obliged not afford any deburring, various Hanyu, Machida rather than Fernandez may also run into glaring errors as they have a wide margin in terms of points to address.
Obviously, in the absence of the current leaders of the movement, the success of the American Ice & rsquo; Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf & nbsp; & not egrave; never been questioned, but certainly some bell d & rsquo; alarm sar & agrave; played, considering that the & nbsp; fellow Max Aaron and Richard Dornbush, although wrong, they got higher scores in total in the previous stages of ISU Challenger Series.
In second place is & egrave; placed the landlord Michal Brezina (228.48), Czech athlete who, after a lapse of a few d & rsquo; years in North America, & egrave; returned to training at the renowned center of Bavaria. The twenty-four student of Karel Fajfr, second in both segments of the race, he dealt with the free program with the clear intention to perform three quadruple jumps and two triple axels, but compared to what was planned, & egrave; Failure to & rsquo; call a quadruple toe loop which must be added a quadruple salchow missing rotation and ended with a crash. Brezina, despite the collaboration of Stephane Lambiel in & rsquo; preparation of the program, he lost ten points behind the winner on the PCS (program components score), who thwarted as hard earned on the technical side. In any case, compared to the recent past, l & rsquo; Czech athlete & egrave; appeared pi & ugrave; forward in the preparation, that could benefit him in & rsquo; imminent Grand Prix.
The podium & egrave; was completed by & rsquo; thirtysomething Russian Konstantin Menshov (211.03), which thanks to a quad and seven triples, had reason pi & ugrave; Listed compatriot Sergei Voronov (210.05), these days in crisis on the triple axel.
The fifth & egrave; went to the Canadian Elladj Balde (196,78), which preceded the returning American Alexander Johnson (191.41) and l & rsquo; Israeli Alexei Bychenko (178.71).
L & rsquo; azure Ivan Righini (177.89) & you egrave; had to settle for dell & rsquo; eighth place, betrayed in the free program from a bad day on all parties jumps from the wire. In fact, the atavistic problems with the triple axel, were added to the steps to empty out of non-regular Rittberger and salchow. The new student of Michael Huth & egrave not ;, however, went far from complete quadruple toe loop, an element that could guarantee him a & rsquo; another dimension. & Nbsp; & Beyond the agrave; the final result, the race plan today is rather intriguing because & eacute; l & rsquo; goal & egrave; to run a quad and eight triple jumps, including two and two flip lutz. Also interesting is the choreography, edited by Alexander Zhulin on a musical medley that starts with "My Way" by Frank Sinatra and conculde with "can''t Take My Eyes Off You". However, something new and, perhaps, also different.
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