Figure Skating - NHK Trophy 2013
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The competitive part of the thirty-fourth edition of the NHK Trophy was completed in the very first Italian morning with the free dance.
Sunday 10 November 2013 6 minutes reading time
The eight couples enrolled fell on the ice of the "Yoyogi National Gymnasium" in Tokyo in just over four hours after the earthquake, magnitude 5.5, with its epicenter in the area north of the Japanese capital.
The external factors are not, however, affected the trial of Americans Meryl Davis / Charlie White, winners for dispersion of the competition with the new world record for the longest segment of the race. The defending World Champions have won the fifteenth victory in the Grand Prix between qualifying stages and the final fourteen of them consecutive. Thus they brought their unbeaten run in the circuit forty-nine months will become fifty in the case of probable victory in the final of the Grand Prix. In this long period of time, as well as having achieved four successes in the Japanese leg, were imposed in twenty-seven of twenty-eight programs race starts.
The performance of the students of Marina Zueva the tune of "Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov has flirted with absolute perfection, as evidenced by the evaluation of the program components which stood above the fifty-eight points, barrier broken for the fifth time in his career. In fact, in the'' occasion was the technical score to make a difference in how the 54.86 today is second only to the Four Continents 54.94 reached in Osaka last season. However, never before in history, a technical score more than fifty-four points was coupled with an assessment of the components of the program beyond the fifty-eight points.
Numbers aside, Davis / White have appeared more at ease in the new part compared to the already impressive performance of Skate America, resulting in faster and sliding from first to last second''. Every element except the'' diagonal tricky, got the highest level available and the degree of implementation was very high, considering that eighty of the eighty-assessments were assigned to be between +2 and +3.
Obviously, the defending champions have won the sixth with two resounding victories in the Grand Prix final in his career,'' that this year will be held in Japan in Fukuoka.
 they will be accompanied by the Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, today on the podium for the ninth time in his career without winning.
On the lowest rung of the podium are accommodated Americans Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, confirming the historical feeling with the Japanese leg of the Grand Prix which, today, gave them four podiums in as many holdings. The result in the NHK Trophy was doubly important because, unless unforeseen, will allow students to Marina Zueva to be the first pair of reserves for the final. Final confirmation should arrive at the end of the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow where their compatriots Chock / Bates, strongly suspected to conclude the Russian stage in third position, will have to try to get well 161,32 points for overriding them.
The young American brothers have very interpreato a medley of music by Michael Jackson
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (USA) - Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 186.65 (1 | 1), season record
2) (ITA) - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE 160.06 (2 | 2)
3) (USA) - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 157.58 (3 | 3), season record
4) (RUS) - Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov 155.37 (4 | 4) (video)
5) (CAN) - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER 144.07 (5 | 5)
6) (JPN) - Cathy REED / Chris REED 133.76 (7 | 6)
7) (GER) - Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO 130.51 (6 | 8)
8) (RUS) - Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN 124.23 (8 | 7)
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