Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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The second day of Skate America, the opening stage of the Gradn Prix hosted by & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; & nbsp; Hoffman Estates, you & egrave; opened with the short program of the pairs of art, which was dominated by Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov.
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The Russian veterans, stored many months lost due to injury, returned to speak at an excellent level and in & rsquo; when they established the primacy of the season tearing Canadians Duhamel / Radford.
Students of & rsquo; eternal Tamara Mosvkina performed in an exemplary manner each of the required elements, including the triple twist that do not & egrave; never was and never will be & agrave; the dish of the house. In particular, the couple based in St. Petersburg & egrave; distinguished for the quality & agrave; triple toe loop in parallel and each of the pair of all well taken care of every detail. Probably as far as you & egrave; seen on the ice, the feedback on the components of the program, even though they were the best of the competition turned out to be rather severe, but nothing took away the size of the result.
Kavaguti / Smirnov prevailed by a wide margin over the Chinese Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, encyclopedia of triple twist, triple Rittberger launched and lifting of group four, but penalized by the disastrous fall of Peng on the triple toe loop in parallel, correctly assessed under rotated by panel. Technical aspect aside, the program of the students of Zhao Hongbo has revealed a larger number of steps to transition from the past and especially the choreography & egrave; proved to be in step with the times and in line with the trend started Nellla last season.
Third place, complete with a new personal best, & egrave; went to the Americans Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, who won the first round of the & rsquo; expected internal challenge with fellow Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim. The former junior world champions, together in kiss & amp; Cry by John Zimmermann and Ingo Steuer, performed the best triple twist, triple Rittberger launched and lifting three group managed to limit the damage on the triple salchow in parallel, filed with irrelevant smears. & nbsp; Scimeca / Knierim, however, after executing a triple twist worthy of the best Chinese couple were victims dell''abituale step load on the triple salchow in parallel. In & rsquo; occasion, the fall & egrave; touched to Alexa Scimeca, which, for the truth & agrave ;, gave l & rsquo; impression, then not confirmed by the panel, to be over the limit with the rotation.
In fifth place, stood the young Americans Madeline Aaron and Max Settlage able to debut in the Grand Prix of complete fluency in all elements pianficati and improve the official personal best by more than six points by completing without problems.
Afterwards, the samples were placed Canadian national junior Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, skilled in rimerdiare to un''uscita problem of triple twist with a good triple salchow and a triple toe loop launched in parallel well executed.
The seventh & egrave; Annabelle went to the German Press & ouml; l & szlig; / Ruben Blommaert, affected by the choice of the competition that it has submitted a double twist, though well executed, and a fall on the triple flip launched.
Students Karel Fajfr preceded the Austrians Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer, appeared higher than at the Coupe de Nice disastrous and now able to complete a decent triple salchow in parallel.
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CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT COUPLE ARTISTICO1) (RUS) Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV (video) 69.16 (36.87 | 32.29) SR
2) (CHN) PENG Cheng / Zhang Hao & nbsp; (video) & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 62.38 (32.35 | 31.03) - 1:00 SB
3) (USA) Haven Denney / Brandon FRAZIER (video) 61.08 (34.08 | 27.00) PB
4) (USA) Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim & nbsp; (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 60.61 (32.63 | 28.98) -1.00 SB
5) (USA) Madeline AARON / Max SETTLAGE & nbsp; (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 58.41 (32.18 | 26.23) PB
6) (CAN) Vanessa GRENIER / Maxime DESCHAMPS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 51.13 (27.33 | 23.80) PB
7) (GER) & nbsp; Annabelle PR & Öland, LSS / Ruben BLOMMAERT48.87 (26.32 | 23:55) - 1:00 SB
8) (AUT) Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER45.27 (24.24 | 22:03) - 1:00 SB
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / personal best NR & ndash; National record / national record & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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