Figure skating - Skate Canada 2015
In the late afternoon of Friday & take Igrave ;, & agrave; off the forty-second edition of Skate Canada, the second act of the season Grand Prix of Figure Skating.
Monday 26 October 2015 13 minutes reading time
The races will take place at the & rsquo; Enmax Centre Lethbrdige, a town of nearly seventy-five thousand souls located in Alberta, previously home of & rsquo; event back in 1990.
Moreover, just a few months l & rsquo; Enmax Centre arena for ice sports can & ograve; accommodate nearly 5,500 spectators, it celebrated the first forty years of life.
As happened nineteen times out of twenty, Skate Canada will & agrave; the second leg of the Grand Prix.
AREA MEN
The highlight of & rsquo; & egrave event; It represented for all purposes by the challenge between Yuzuru Hanyu and Patrick Chan, staged for the & rsquo; last time at the Olympic Games in Sochi. The budget of the previous nine of the past (including the short program of the Olympic team competition) smiles at the Canadian who & egrave; imposed on five occasions, including the & rsquo; only challenge held at Skate Canada (Saint John, 2013). The underdogs are up to & ograve; Hanyu the twenties, back from a brilliant debut season in & rsquo; Autumn Classic Barrie. Patrick Chan, however, took part between late September and early October to a local race in Quebec and at the Japan Open proving, especially because of a good year of absence from & rsquo; competitive spirit, still far from the best condition.
The role of third wheel will touch & agrave; to seventeen Nam Ngyuen, training partner of Hanyu. In particular, it will & agrave; Interestingly the first international comparison with Chan, the main rival for the leadership of Canada. For now, the only direct clashes took place on the occasion of the national championships, but at the time the & rsquo; student of Brian Orser was not yet in possession of the technical background to try to trouble the vice-Olympic champion.
In key podium not beat the Japanese school US Daisuke Murakami, twenty-four trained in California by Frank Carroll and surprise winner of the NHK Trophy last season.
Will follow with attention the twenty-five Czech Michal Brezina, hitherto opaque in races run between September and October, and almost twenty-six American Adam Rippon, second in the Finlandia Trophy in early October, and the eighteen year old Korean Jin Seo Kim, winner of & rsquo; Ice Star Minsk.
Will the game even novices Timothy Dolensky, twenty-three American Keegan Messing, twenty-three Canadian with a background of stars and stripes, Alexander Petrov, sixteen year old Russian school Mishin, and Sei Kawahara, nineteen Japanese invited a few days ago to take the place of & rsquo ; injured Peter Liebers. & nbsp; The camp participants will & agrave; He completed by June nineteen Korean Hyoung Lee, not brilliant in the Finlandia Trophy, the first and only outing of the season.
FEMALE FIELD
Spotlight on Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, true dominator of last season. The eighteen year old from St. Petersburg, vicitrice a couple of weeks ago the Copue De Nice, trover & agrave; as the main opponents four aggressive in North America. & nbsp; Skate Canada is, in fact, a crucial target for the twenty-four American Ashley Wagner, always on the podium in the final Grand Prix between 2012 and 2014, the twenty Kaetlyn Osmond, who won Skate Canada in 2012, the US Polina Edmunds, never on podium in the Grand Prix, but able to establish itself in & rsquo; last edition of the Four Continents Championships, and the seventeen year old Gabrielle Daleman, national champion in office recently entered the group of Brian Orser.
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However, they can not be forgotten the fifteen Kazakh Elizabet Turzynbaeva, fourth at Skate America, and almost twenty-five Russian Alena Leonova, both in the technical means to try to make break the bank.
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On the front of the great unknowns, stand out the names of & rsquo; now twenty-two Japanese Kanako Murakami, pretender to the podium as long to overcome the atavistic problems with the rotations of the jumps, and sixteen countrymen Yuka Nagai, making its debut in the Grand Prix.
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On the sidelines, will & agrave; interesting challenge for the leadership of the movement between the Swedish ventiduenni Joshi Helgesson and Isabelle Olsson, gi & agrave; quietly in the ball in the first seasonal and best performance in hand, separated by only one hundredth of a point in favor of more & ugrave; young sisters Helgesson.
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L & rsquo; last place available for the host country & egrave; touched the twenty-Veronik Mallet, on paper the & rsquo; athlete with the most technical background & ugrave; limited.
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PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
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Canadians Megan Duhamel and Eric Radford, defending champions seem to have no rivals for the second consecutive victory in the home leg. Moreover, in the program for free, they will try to become the first couple in history capable of landing two quads launched a competition on the international calendar ISU.
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The Russians Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, were excluded from the final of last season for the skin of our teeth, should be the most suitors & ugrave; accredited to the second position, without forgetting that many seem in a position to reach the podium. Canadians Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro, Americans Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran and Italians Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek start, in fact, on a par with the clear aim of winning the first podium of his career in the circuit. Moreover, the three pairs are toghether by the fact that they have little pi & ugrave; of a year of life and from & rsquo; have worked during the & rsquo; summer side by side at the school directed by Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte. Physical condition permitting, the Russians, coached by Oleg Vassiliev Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat may possess the technical means to join the fight for the top three positions. However, there are concerns about the conditions of Bazarova remained firm in early October.
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A few steps below, place the Canadians Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps and Austrians Miriam Ziegler / Sverin Kiefer.
Among the subscribers of the stage, only Duhamel / Radford boast victories in the circuit.
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DANCE
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The public attention of Lethbridge will be mainly concentrated on Kaetlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, rulers of & rsquo; last final in Barcelona and the last edition of Skate Canada. Students of Pasquale Camerlengo should present a new short-dance music by Strauss, which will go & agrave; to replace that of a medley of Elvis Presley tested in Finland Trophy in early October. The peak torque of the movement will have Canadian & agrave; watch their backs by Americans Maia and Alex Shibutani, coming off a debut subdued in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava, and the Russians Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmtri Soloviev, far away from the international scene since the Olympic Games of 2014 because of the physical problems of Solovyov.
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The average level of the competition promises to be quite high as evidenced by the large group of couples with podium ambitions. They will try, in fact, Canadians Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, recently moved to Montreal at the school directed by Patrice Lauzon, the Russians Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin, students of Alexander Zhulin cos & Igrave; as Bobrova / Soloviev, Italians school Fusar Poli Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri, and the Danes stationed in Montreal Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen.
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The field of participants will & agrave; completed by Canadians Elisabeth Paradis / Fran & ccedil; ois Xavier Ouellette, other students interesting team-Dubreuil-Lauzon Haguenauer
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