Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2014
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It took one hundred and sixteen qualifying stages of the Grand Prix (135 at the end), before a nation could monopolize the podium in a race for the pairs of art, but incredibly, after the & rsquo; s exploits made less than a week ago by the team Chinese could get the answer by return of Russia.
Friday 14 November 2014 9 minutes reading time
The short program in the Rostelecom Cup fourth round of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating hosted by the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow & egrave; was, in fact, dominated by couples who already have home & agrave; mortgaged the first two end positions, laying important foundations to complete the sweep.
In respect of the discounted prediction Eve, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov closed the segment of the race atop the standings, marking the fourth performance of the season on the backs of Canadians Duhamel / Radford countrymen Kavaguti / Smirnov and Chinese Peng / Zhang. In truth, & agrave ;, were not all rosy for the students of Nina Mozer as an issue out of the lift group three did miss them a couple of important points. There & ograve; Accordingly, the & rsquo; s running in parallel triple toe loop and triple lutz cast & egrave; was an anthology and & egrave; well worth the price of admission, not to mention the triple twist & egrave; rather better than in the past. The vice-Olympic champions have clearly created a vacuum on the components of the program, dealing with a speed & agrave; unmatched in the circuit & rsquo; s entire segment of the race. In addition, the music taken from the & ldquo; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & rdquo; turned out to be very apt with their style of skating.
Stolbova / Klimov have prevailed for just under two lengths on the young fellow Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, author of the new personal best. The pair emerging from the Russian school opened the program with a triple twist of not less than those proposed by Volosozhar / Trankov and then performed in an exemplary manner each element by clocking the best technical score of the game.
Third place & egrave; deservedly went to the Russian debutants Kristina Astakhov / Alexei Rogonov called at & rsquo; s last minute to replace Davankova / Enbert, but from now on the piece. In addition, the students of the two-time Olympic champion Artur Dmitriev, only to have obtained the level four on the death spiral inside out, they can also complain about something because of the & rsquo; s performance of & rsquo; s last top in parallel, that between all & egrave; cost them more than one point. In particular, & egrave; important to note the quality & agrave; triple salchow launched, complete with a perfect unison.
The expected US Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier have, however, had to settle for fourth place with a large detachment from Tarasova / Morozov, rivals to win the final of the Grand Prix. Students of John Zimmermann, after a brilliant opening words, characterized by a convincing performance of triple twist and triple Rittberger launched, are lost on the salchow in parallel completed by Denney and the only double & igrave; forward have messed elements remained, leaving the flat point heavy. & nbsp; Former world champion junior to cultivate any hope of being the game in & rsquo; s final act of Barcelona, ​​will be obliged to recover tomorrow at least one rank and above all to hold the gap to Tarasova / Morozov in & rsquo; s order of eight points and thirty-nine cents, compared with thirteen points and twenty-two cents today.
Next, they placed their compatriots Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu, penalized by the difficulty & agrave; Calalang of the salchow in parallel and by & rsquo; s release of the triple twist on the spot.
The couple US preceded the Germans Annabelle Pr & ouml; l & szlig; / Ruben Blommaert, clear progress compared to Skate Canada, especially the twist in & rsquo; at run triple and double axel in parallel.
The ranking & egrave; was closed by the Japanese Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara, were less affected than other worries Takahashi on the occasion of the jumps in parallel, and the US Dee Dee Leng / Simon Shnapir, the first appearance of his career couples.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT COUPLE
01) (RUS) - Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor KLIMOV69.09 (35.50 | 33.59) SB02 (RUS) - Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir MOROZOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 67.28 (36.62 | 30.66) PB03) (RUS) - Kristina Astakhova / Alexei ROGONOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 58.34 (31.74 | 26.60) PB04) (USA) - Haven Denney / Brandon FRAZIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 54.06 (26.55 | 27.51) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 05) (USA) - Jessica CALALANG / Zack SIDHU & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 50.87 (25.10 | 25.77) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 06) (GER) - Annabelle PR & Öland, LSS / Ruben BLOMMAERT48.69 (25.40 | 24.29) -1.00 SB07) (JPN) - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi Kihara & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 47.68 (24.57 | 23.11) SB08) (USA) - Dee Dee LENG / Simon Shnapir & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 45.42 (22.63 | 23.79) -1.00 PB
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / record personaleNR - national records / national record
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