Figure skating - US Regionals 2014/2015
The first round of Regional Championships, usually worthy of interest, especially with regard to women's senior competitions, had as main dish the race held at the & ldquo, The Cooler & rdquo; Alpharetta Georgia.
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Absent the defending champion Maria Franchesca Chiera, gi & agrave; Permissible d & rsquo; office & Outdoors; Eastern Sectional Championship, success in the South Atlantic Regional & egrave; went to Madison Vinci (143.63, pictured), sixth in the 2013 Junior National Championships The eighteen stationed in Ashburn in Virginia gave the best of her potential in the short program during which well has completed a triple salchow preceded by step, and a combination Rittberger triple / double Rittberger. Some problems in pi & ugrave ;, the other hand, in the free program, open from a fall on a triple flip judged under rotated. Best of the lot in each item of the program components, Vinci completed in the segment pi & ugrave; long race two double axel and three triple jumps, including a salchow that gave way to a combination with a double toe loop and double Rittberger.
In second place, cos & igrave; as happened last year, & egrave; placed almost nineteen year old Raleigh (North Carolina) Jessica Hu (130.19), who is also the author of a short thick technical, embellished with a triple combination Rittberger / double Rittberger and two elements of jump performed in the second half & agrave; of the disc (triple lutz and double axel preceded by the step). How Vinci, for ograve & ;, Hu also has bungled in the free program in which he completed only one of the five planned triple. In particular, duty paid for via a great fall of a triple Rittberger and for the many jumps missing of rotation, on all the triple lutz degraded to double. & Nbsp; At the margin, it is worth highlighting the ease & agrave; nell''agganciare double Rittberger at the end of each jump and the 'great mastery of the double axel.
The step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium & egrave; was occupied by & rsquo; waiting Maria Yang (125,86), favored the vigil. The seventeen year old from Ashburn, seventh in the national junior last season, & egrave; was affected by too many steps to empty the elements of the jump. Go to & ograve; remarked that, compared to the competition, the Wang have proved far more & ugrave; ambitious, as evidenced by the repeated attempts of combinations with two triple jumps and Rittberger closing.
L & rsquo; ultimate place to access Sectionals & egrave; was gained to the wire from fourteen Kristine Nikitina (113.88), engaged in the first competition of the senior career.
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In the Pacific Northwest Regional Championship, hosted by & ldquo; Town Toyota Center & rdquo; Wenatchee in Washington State, you & egrave; tax Tiana Lee (115,03), winner of last season in the junior category. Born and raised in San Diego, but then moved to Seattle, Lee has had the merit of completing between short program and free three triple jumps (all toe loop), which enabled it to establish itself in both segments of the competition. Moreover, the winner in part, attempts to triple jumps were very rare or almost as and & eacute; never crowned with a happy ending. They have earned the & rsquo; access to the Pacific Coast Sectional also seventeen stationed in Alaska Xinghua Turner (105,83), best of the lot of spins and steps, the nineteen year old Tacoma Jordan Lee (99.12), fourth last season, and Karen Siedenburg (89,96).
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Nell & rsquo; Upper Great Lakes Regional, went on stage at the & ldquo; Richfield Arena & rdquo; Saint Paul in Minnesota, had, however, the best veteran Dana Sivak (112.89), which, despite only one triple jump completed in two days, preceded Kjerstin Hall (106.38), Ariana Grymski (106, 20) and Joanna Liu (98,64). Compared to the past, the average level of the competition & egrave; decreased exponentially in part because of some retreats and especially for the absences of Barbie Long, qualified d & rsquo; office for the Midwestern Sectional Championships, and Carly Gold, moved to California.
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