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Here are the statements of the athletes involved in today's races at 'NHK Trophy, the fourth leg of the Grand Prix of the season.
Saturday 9 November 2013 7 minutes reading time
Dance (report of the short program) Meryl Davis Charlie and I are very excited about the direction our Short Dance is taking. There are many things on which we want to improve before the Grand Prix Final. But I think Skate America we have grown under the'' aspect of the presentation of the program, which is the one on which we aimed in particular at this race.
Anna Cappellini: The start was not the most pleasant, when in warm-ups are unexpectedly fall in Finnstep. Probably what made us more nervous. There were a couple of mistakes and we left on the ice a bit'' of points, but overall we are happy with our Short Dance. We were able to convey to the audience cheer and'' the essence of dance. It was not a perfect performance, but it certainly is a good starting point on which to work.
Maia Shibutani: Our goal for this week was to show an improvement at Skate America. The performance was very good and the levels of our Finnstep have improved.
Couple of artistic (report of the free program)
Tatiana Volosozhar: We feel very at ease and we are happy regarding our activities. We skated very well today and got a good score. We are happy because this is our first NHK Trophy and we have done our job very well.
Maxim Trankov: I wanted to skate well for the third time this season, in order to gain security. So it was an important step. It was important for us to get good scores and skate well.
Hao Zhang: We are pleased with today's result, but we are not happy 100% of the performance itself.
Cong Han: It was not a good race for us. Yesterday I started to feel headache and fever. Eventually I woke up at 2 in the morning and I could not go to bed until 5am. At 6 I had to get on the bus. I feel very bad.
Men (report of the free program)
Daisuke Takahashi: I could not skate well as yesterday. I had not gone well at the Japan Open and at Skate America so I was a bit 'anxious. I made progress, I'm still not 100%, but I was well. It was my second stage the grand prix and the third race in the season and I think we are finally prepared in view of the Olympic Games. I think I'm at the starting line.
Nobunari Oda: Yesterday during the short program I have had much cheering and applause and I have not forgotten. I was hoping to skate well today, I missed the first four times but I'm glad as I continued my performance. I still have room for improvement for the next race.
Jeremy Abbott: I was very happy with how I skated the short program, only thing missing was the piece of the quad toe loop, but the rest of the items were of good quality and excellent workmanship.
Even though I was in seventh place, I was very close in terms of points to the second and third position and knew I could recover those points the free skating well.
It 'not again four times but everything else was there. I wanted to skate a solid program and I did. I'm glad to have recovered points and positions, from the seventh to the podium.
Women (report of the free program)
Mao Asada: Since the Japan Open are always gone well, but have not yet met. Skate America then I'm trying to climb, one step at a time, and I want to get to a higher level in my next race.
Radionova Elena: I am very, very happy with my performance because I skated cleanly and I really wanted. I would like to go to the final Grand Prix, this is one of my goals for the season.
Akiko Suzuki: There have been many mistakes. I was very apprehensive before skating and I could not recover. Now I have many regrets.
SCHEDULE NHK (updated hourly)
Sunday, November 10
08:30 - EUROSPORT INT. - Free dance
09:30 - EUROSPORT INT. - Gala (deferred)
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