Figure Skating - US Nationals 2015
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In the men's short program of the US National Championships Figure Skating, hosted by the Coliseum Convention Center in Greensboro in North Carolina, you & egrave; revived the duel between the twenties Jason Brown and Joshua Farris, for years dish at junior level.
Saturday 24 January 2015 6 minutes reading time
In the end, the 'pupil Kori Ade & egrave; able to get the best for almost three points, but for the derelict US movement recovery of good levels of competitiveness & agrave; Farris is the news of the day.
On the sidelines, it should be noted that despite the & rsquo; excessive generosity & agrave; judges on both the degree of realization of the elements on the components of the program, both showed the weakness of the sector witnessed by only three attempts to quadruple jump made, only one of which was successful or almost.
Brown, author of a decent triple axel & Outdoors; start of the program, clocked the best technical score of the day, performing impeccably all elements of spinning top, the combination triple flip / triple toe loop and a triple tano-lutz in the second half & agrave ; of music.
Farris, filed the best triple axel of the competition, has lost ground compared with the historic adversary because of a landing with step-out combination of triple flip / triple toe loop, eeguita in the second part of the program cos & Igrave; as the triple lutz preceded by step.
The veteran Jeremy Abbott, title holder, you & egrave; had to settle for third place, despite having received the feedback pi & ugrave; high on each item of the program components. & nbsp; The twenty-nine stationed in Detroit still has content detachment from Farris in & rsquo; order of half a scarce and, in the light of what is shown, is still in the running to be reconfirmed at the top. In particular, compared athletes that & rsquo; preceded in the standings, Abbott has paid duty regarding the sequence of steps, fermatasi level three, and uncertain for a landing of the triple axel.
L & rsquo; awaited Max Aaron finished in fourth position failing to recover lost ground on the technical side on the components of the program. L & rsquo; student of Tom Zakrajšek rimpianger & agrave; problems in dealing with the free leg is on & rsquo; landing quadruple salchow that the triple axel, inconvenience which, added to the lower quality & agrave; on the elements of spinning top, relegated him to more than seven points behind the lead.
Afterwards, you & egrave; placed Adam Rippon, author of a good triple axel and the best sequence of steps, but penalized by unusual difficulty & agrave; on tops and an attempt to quadruple lutz not been successful because of the rotation largely missing.
In sixth place is & egrave; certificate Ross Miner, who for the & rsquo; occasion has given up to four times salchow, but he fouled a decent program by performing a combination triple lutz / double toe loop. The screenplay & egrave; was the same for Richard Dornbush, however, is not flawless on & rsquo; landing the triple axel.
Fifteen Nathan Chen & egrave ;, however, went beyond the & rsquo; eighth skating still a flawless program, but with the 'handicap at this level of a double axel instead of deliberately & egrave; triple.
The top three at the end of the national championships will qualify for the World Cup to be held in Shanghai in late March.
STANDINGS MEN SHORT PROGRAM
1) 93.36 - Jason Brown2) 90.40 - Joshua Farris3) 89.93 - Jeremy Abbott4) 85.78 - Max Aaron5) 84.71 - Adam Rippon6) 82.25 - Ross Miner7) 79.24 - Richard Dornbush8 ) 76.20 - Nathan Chen9) 75.70 - Grant Hochstein10) 74.01 - Douglas Razzano & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 11) 71.39 - Sean Rabbitt & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 12) 68.46 - Alexander Johnson13) 68.41 - Timothy Dolensky14) 67.81 - Jordan Moeller15) 61.13 - Philip Warren16) 59.09 - Jimmy MA17) 56.29 - Patrick Rupp & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 18) 55.60 - Shotaro Omori19) 50.07 - Robert Przepioski20) 42.26 - Sebastien Payannet
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