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These days, you are holding the second round of Regionals, valid U.S. to determine which skaters will continue their journey to the National leagues accessing Sectionals, second qualifying round.
Monday 14 October 2013 8 minutes reading time
The attention of the insiders are mainly addressed to the Central Pacific Regional Championships, which sees between the athletes also members Rachael Flatt, national champion in 2010 and absent from competition since last October when he attended, without particularly shine, at Skate America.
Yesterday, the "Vacaville Ice Sports", located right in Vacaville, California town not far from Sacaramento, was the scene of the first segment of the race with the tapes fourteen athletes from California and Utah.
The twenty-one room at Stanford, where he attended the renowned University, concluded the short-program posizone first with 49.82 points. The performance, on the whole, proved to be discreet, despite a move to empty the lutz preceded by step, open in flight and somehow completed only twice. No problem, however, on the other elements of jump, triple combination Rittberger / double toe loop and double axel and then in the second half of the disc. Among the positive notes, stands the four level obtained on the sequence of steps, while the spins, never been the specialty of the house, has revealed some heartache in more, especially on the reverse not gone beyond level two.
At the end of the race, Flatt, who has personally choreographed his program, skated to the tune of'' "Adagio for Strings" by Barber Sameul, should take flight in the direction of Europe to take part in the Cup of Nice. It should, however, be remembered that from the perspective of a possible'' Olympic qualifier, a hypothesis at the moment is remote, California is already in possession of the minimum technical score, obtained in the last edition of Skate America.
The second temporary position is occupied by twenty-one of Saratoga Laney Diggs (45.34), author of a short-competitive soiled by a double anzicè triple flip, but enhanced by a good combination triple salchow / double toe loop and discrete spins. In third place is the'' interssante nineteen Camille Davis (45.33), which scored the best technical score of the day. The skater Springville, but based in Salt Lake City, presented a program with the three jump elements placed in the second half of the disc is removed and the satisfaction of getting a prestigious level four on the sequence of steps, unusual element opening of its program. '' The only smear covered the double axel, judged sottoruotato, while they have not created worries the combination triple salchow / double toe loop and triple toe loop preceded by the step. Fourth, and last of the currently qualified to sectional, is the Californian Gwendolyn Prescott (41,55), sixteen of opportunity'' in Fremont penalized by a fall on the triple Salchow, the only element that has given her problems.
It has also already played the short program at UT Southwestern Regional Champsionships, hosted by the "Polar Ice House" in Grapevine, Texas. Of the nine athletes entered the race, coming from Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, stands out the presence of the seventeen year old Mary Bell, ranking third in the stage of junior Grand Prix held in Mexico City in early September. The native of Tulsa, but stationed in Colorado, has completed the first segment of the race in first position with an excellent 54.15, the result of spins of excellent workmanship and evaluation components of the program is quite large for the context of the bid. The program was still dirty from falling on a triple lutz, which was to open a combination with a double toe loop. No problem, however, nor on the triple flip preceded by hand, nor on the double axel, presented in the second half of the disc.
Off by more than ten points, occupies the place of honor'' the eighteen year old Texan Rene Kono (43,59), which precedes the nineteen stationed in Colorado Springs Melin Craze (41,00) and twenty-two Morgan Bell (39.19) , older sister of the leader of the race.'s speech seems to sectional qualifying closed down because the older sister of Bell has accumulated over seven-point margin on the main pursuers.
Italian Late in the evening, will be held the short program of the New England Regional Championships, an event that ranks among the participating athletes calibor Kiril Baga and Yasmin Siraj. Among the skaters involved in Connecticut at the Ice Arena in Newington figure also Petenko Daniel, grandson of the Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko and leader of the novice men's race at the end of the short-program.
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