Figure skating - U.S. Nationals 2014
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The U.S. National Championships, hosted by the TD Garden in Boston concluded with the Men's Free program, which proved to be crucial to determine which athletes will take part in the upcoming Olympic Games.
Sunday 12 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The victory went to twenty-eight Jeremy Abbott who, after having dominated the short-program, had the merit of resisting the bully back of Jason Brown, by far the best in the longer segment of the race.
Max Aaron, winner in the last edition, it is, however, had to settle for the lowest step of the podium, although he did score the highest technical score in the free program, featuring two quad salchow and six triple jumps completed. However, the expected student'' Tom Zakrajsek exceedingly duty paid on the sum of the components of the program by granting more than thirteen lengths'' to opponents that have preceded it.
Abbott filed the fourth national title of his career, which will guarantee to take part in the Sochi Olympics, where it will be accompanied by twenty Brown, in'' novice occasion.
In fact, neither the one nor the'' other'' were immune to errors in the free program. Abbott, after a start with a bang, which is characterized by an excellent quadruple toe loop combination and the triple axel / double toe loop, dubbed a flip and sottoruotato the second triple axel, putting together only three triple jumps. Brown, much more on the ball, has, however, completed seven of the eight triple jumps pianficati, but sottoruotato the second triple axel.
The fourth place went to junior world champion Joshua Farris, released again defeated in battle with the quadruple toe loop, but still able to complete seven triple jumps.
Afterwards, he finished Richard Dornbush, according to Abbott behind at the end of the short program, but now abandoned by the quadruple salchow and triple axel.
The main disappointments are named Ross Miner, seventh, and Adam Rippon, sadly eighth because of the repetition of the problems on the triple axel that seemed to have been exceeded in the Grand Prix.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) Jeremy Abbott (99.86 | 174.41) 274.27 02) Jason Brown (87.47 | 182.61) 270.08 03) Max Aaron (86.95 | 173.49) 260.44 04) Joshua Farris (78.37 | 169.69) 248.06 05) Richard Dornbush (92.04 | 144.34) 236.38 06) Douglas Razzano (75.18 | 157.25) 232.43 07) Ross Miner (71.94 | 152.87) 224.81 08) Adam Rippon (77.58 | 144.61) 222.19 09) Brandon Mroz (70.57 | 138.12) 208.69 10) Stephen Carriere (64.42 | 138.83) 203.25 11) Grant Hochstein (64.62 | 133.88) 198.50 12) Keegan Messing (61.15 | 136.30) 197.45 13) Timothy Dolensky (61.76 | 123.08 ) 184.84 14) Sean Rabbitt (60.58 | 122.76) 183.34 15) Lukas Kaugars (64.57 | 114.75) 179.32 16) Philip Warren (55.80 | 113.24) 169.04 17) Daniel Raad (52.98 | 108.03) 161.01 18) Scott Dyer (55.78 | 100.97) 156.75 19) Robert Przepioski (47.00 | 100.34) 147.34
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