Figure skating - Autumn Classic 2014
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Gabriella Papdakis and Guillaume Cizeron gave to France the first success in a stage in the history of ISU Challenger Series, winning clearly in & rsquo; Autumn Classic hosted by International & rsquo; Allandale Recreation Centre in Barrie (CAN).
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The couple dance Alps (152.20), after having dominated the short-dance, had the better of qualified competition in the segment pi & ugrave; long race in establishing & rsquo; occasion the new personal best ever.
In the free dance, the students of Patrice Lauzon took over as the pi & ugrave; competitive batch of twizzles and step sequences, presenting lift normally never trivial, but in some cases still to be recorded. In any case, the program choreographed by Marie France Dubreuil music by Mozart selected by Romain Haguenauer has captivated audiences for its originality & local agrave; and the ability & agrave; involvement, just as happened in the Master & rsquo, s d & rsquo; Orl & egrave; ans a few days ago.
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier (142.52), favorites of the day before, they had to settle for the place d & rsquo; honor, arousing l & rsquo; impression of being at the time still lags behind the winners in the care of those technical details that can shift the balance . How d & rsquo; habit & Outdoors; lift on top of the situation, the Canadians have revealed some uncertainty about the twizzles and nell''arco of the two days of competition, on the sequences of steps. The expectations for the new free dance were obviously high, after the & rsquo; appreciation generally aroused by the program last season ("Hitchcock"), but the first exit l & rsquo; not impact & egrave; seemed to be the same and, above all, & egrave; Failure to l & rsquo; innovation of the past, not only for the choice of music
The podium & egrave; completed a big surprise from the Danish School of Canadian Laurence Fournier-Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen (131,62), able to take advantage of the blunders of their opponents in the free dance. Training partners Papadakis / Cizeron stood out for cleaning twizzles lift and well executed proving to have made a leap in quality & agrave; than last season.
The free dance has not given satisfaction to Canadians Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, who bungled before & rsquo; entrance to the top, leaving the street l & rsquo; component and, in addition, thanks to a step-load generated by Islam, they paid duty on the level and quality & agrave ; the midline. Not egrave &; much better in the Spanish Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz, dropped in intensity & agrave; in the final part of the program, but justified by the long period of inactivity & agrave; caused by physical problems. In the end, Paul / Islam (130.70) finished in fourth place, ahead Hurtado / Diaz (129.36) and fellow Orford / Williams (125,10), away from the performance expressed in the US's International Figure Skating Classic & agrave met; September.
The women's competition was marred by numerous falls, he smiled to the athletes of the house, both get on the podium with a lot of new personal record. The success & egrave; went to Gabrielle Daleman (165.59), while the & rsquo; Eclectic Julianne Seguin (158,99) is & egrave; placed in third position. The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; was, however, captured by the American Angela Wang (163,68), author of the best free program. The main disappointment of not edifying palm, & egrave; touched a Barbie Long (120.06), the second American in the race. The eighteen year old St.Louis & egrave not; gone beyond the fifth position just behind the & rsquo; Ukrainian Anastasia Kononenko (126.02), the victim of one of the worst days of life on the elements of jump. & nbsp; At the end of the free program has, in fact, put together three fall over as well as a long list of jumps to the limit with the rotation.
In each case, the top three were not immune from mistakes, but have had the merit of presenting programs of high technical profile.
Daleman, with the game & rsquo; elements as to perform two double axel and seven triple jumps, he missed the & rsquo; ambitious goal because of falls on the second triple lutz and a triple Rittberger, however, far from the required three laps. On the positive side, we must mention the enormous progress on the combination spins and double axel / triple toe loop performed in absolute fluency. He has also aroused interest the brilliant idea to open the program with a combination triple lutz / Rittberger / triple salchow, which has taken the place of the pi & ugrave; complex triple lutz / triple toe loop, practically never entered last season.
Ironically Angela Wang, filed more than two minutes of the program without smudging, & egrave; been betrayed by the errors on the second lutz, completed only single, triple and Rittberger, landed with enormous problems and rotated below. The United States, on the technical side outclassed by rivals Canadian, claimed a higher quality & agrave; overall skating by creating a vacuum on the components of the program. Moreover, cos & igrave; such as direct adversaries, it & egrave; deprived of the satisfaction of retouch the personal record of the race.
Seguin, however, has had the strength to react to an early splits legs characterized by a fall on the triple flip and a landing with step-out triple lutz. Afterwards, the couple has to skater valid & ograve; completed a combination double axel / triple and three triple jumps, including a lutz landed with one hand on the ground.
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In light of today's result, Orford / Williams (266.12) have risen in second place behind the Germans Zhiganshina / Gazsi (287.08) in the ranking dell''ISU Challenger Series. In the women, Angela Wang (323.93) & you egrave; positioned behind dell''inarrivabile Russian Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (385.96).
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