Figure skating - U.S. Nationals 2014
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Meryl Davis and Charlie White, not to make it trite winning the sixth consecutive national title, have seen fit to recall the scoring system of the past by touching the absolute perfection once sanctioned by the 6.0.
Saturday 11 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The reigning World Champions, unbeaten in international competitions by the World Team Trophy in 2012, not only are required for dispersion in the short-dance U.S. Championships, hosted by "TD Garden" in Boston, but not for a few cents peaked score attainable.
On the technical front, the students of Marina Zueva, as well as having achieved the highest level available on each of the five mandatory elements, have been awarded the highest possible degree of implementation of the first sequence of finn-step rotational lift, twizzles midline and no touch. In the end, only the second sequence finn-step, judged with a pair of +2 too, did not allow Davis / White to get to 41 points, threshold reached, forcing them to settle for an unreal anyway 40.93 .
As regards, however, the components of the program, they stopped at 39.76, missing the'' excellence for 24 cents, missing out on skating skills and transitions from non-winning 10, which, with an almost unison, has characterized other entries.
The end result was an eloquent 80.69, that score does not boast any kind of precedent.
In second place, by virtue of a solid technical performance levels comparable to those of the leaders of the league, were placed Madison Chock / Evan Bates, who preceded margin Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, now penalized by the lost levels of twizzles and first sequence of finn-step, without forgetting the midline but no touch which stood at a valid level three.
At the foot of the podium, a little more than a point from the Olympic dream, are Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue, who compared the Shibutani siblings have paid duty on the main components of the program.
In accordance with the prediction of the eve, the rest of the competition was set by former national championships junior Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton, who got the better of Kriengkrairut Lynn / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt, sixth in the race couple in a position to go beyond the sixty lengths.
SHORT DANCE CLASS
01) 80.69 - Meryl Davis / Charlie White02) 73.41 - Madison Chock / Evan Bates03) 68.00 - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani04) 66.69 - Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue05) 63.71 - Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton06) 61.22 - Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt, 07) 54.63 - Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus08) 53.19 - Alissandra Aronow / Collin Brubaker09) 52.68 - Ginna Hoptman / Pavel Filchenkov10) 47.86 - Anastasia Olson / Ian Lorello11) 46.21 - Isabella Cannuscio / Michael Bramante12) 41.63 - Madeline Heritage / Nathaniel Fast13) 39.87 - Danielle Gamelin / Alexander Gamelin14) 38.14 - Kristen Nardozzi / Nick Traxler15) 36.52 - Elicia Reynolds / Stephen Reynolds16) 27.05 - Kseniya Ponomaryova, / Oleg Altukhov17) , 25.58 - Gabriela Morrell Zucker / Andrejs Sitiks18) 23.68 - Pauline Bynum / Jason Deveikis
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