Figure skating - U.S. Nationals 2014
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In the Italian night, the TD Garden in Boston hosted the men's short program of the U.S. National Championships in figure skating.
Saturday 11 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
'' The uncertainty that reigned supreme before the race, was wiped out by Jeremy Abbott, senior athlete among the participants. The twenty-eight stationed in Detroit skated the short-program of life unleashing a performance of rare quality on the technical side. In fact, after you open the music with a combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop was executed perfectly, you are also afforded the luxury of completing a remarkable triple axel in the second part of the program, not to mention level four spins and steps.
Abbott, as expected, has created a vacuum on the components of the program by touching those hundred points total so far only violated by Chan and Hanyu in the context of their respective national championships.
The second position, with a gap to the next eight points, went to Richard Dornbush, able to find the key moment of the season that solidity jump so far on the elements of failure. The twenty-two Californian well-executed quadruple salchow and triple axel, which has added a combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, carefully placed in the second part of the disc.
The expected'' Jason Brown had to settle for third place, affected by the decision not to submit a quadruple jump, this item is not yet in his bag of tricks. The diicannovenne Los Angeles, second only to Abbott on the components of the program, it has run without worries jumps planned despite having to limit the damage on the triple axel, historically certainly not his strong point.
The defending champion Max Aaron, however, missed the provisional podium for highlighting a few tenths'' interesting growth on the tops. The twenty-one student of Tom Zakrajsek has also completed a combination quadruple salchow / double toe loop and in the second half of the program one of the best triple axel of the day.
Next, they placed the junior world champion Joshua Farris,'' in which occasion he gave up four times, but, in particular, has lost ground because of the quality of spins and steps, and Adam Rippon, stumbled into a bad day on jumps. Fatal, in particular, have proved the fall at the end of the triple axel and lutz preceded by the step completed triple quadruple instead.
Rippon aside, the main disappointment of the day bears the name of Ross Miner, penalized by a single axel that has helped to relegate him in a sad eighth place.
At the end of the free program scheduled for Sunday, will be provided with the names of the two athletes who will take part in the Olympic Games in Sochi.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) 99.86 - Jeremy Abbott 02) 92,04 - Richard Dornbush 03) 87.47 - Jason Brown 04) 86.95 - Max Aaron 05) 78.37 - Joshua Farris 06) 77.58 - Adam Rippon 07) 75.18 - Douglas Razzano 08) 71.94 - Ross Miner 09) 70.57 - Brandon Mroz 10) 64.62 - Grant Hochstein 11) 64.57 - Lukas Kaugars 12) 64.42 - Stephen Carriere 13) 61.76 - Timothy Dolensky 14) 61,15 - , Keegan Messing 15) 60.58 - Sean Rabbitt 16) 55.80 - Philip Warren 17) 55.78 - Scott Dyer 18) 52.98 - Daniel Raad 19) 47.00 - Robert Przepioski
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