Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
During the night, you Alzer & agrave; the curtain sula twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which open his & agrave; its doors with Skate America.
Friday 24 October 2014 5 minutes reading time
Yesterday took place the first training sessions, which have provided interesting results showing a state of the form immediately noteworthy for many of the characters announced.
In the men, the two athletes that have most impressed those present were Japan's Tatsuki Machida and Kazakh Denis Ten, on paper favorites for success. Both have performed in various fluency quadruple toe loop and triple axel, but they stole l & rsquo; eye for quality & agrave; overall skating and the construction of their free programs. Si & egrave; distinct even the young Canadian Nam Nguyen, pi & ugrave; sometimes able to land the quadruple salchow, a new element of his technical repertoire, cos & igrave; as pointed out by the Russian security Artur Gachinski athlete in search of the glories of the past, but he is already agrave; appeared in recovery in & rsquo; latest release in Russia. As for the Americans, Jason Brown & egrave; succeeded in landing several triple axel and during long training & egrave; fell once on a triple lutz, but it is not anything to worry about. Same goes for Jeremy Abbott appeared in principle safe on all triples, including axel.
As for the women's sector, it & egrave; view Elena Radionova a big sweep able to perform more & ugrave; times with absolute fluency combination triple lutz / triple toe loop. L & rsquo; impression & egrave; that touches at the very young Russian the role of favorite to win. Convincing training for the American Mirai Nagasu, who, in the run-through of the free program, has put together two double axel and seven triples, with lots of combinations triple flip / triple toe loop and double axel / triple toe loop. Some problems in pi & ugrave ;, however, for Gracie Gold, appeared at ease with the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, but fall into ruin on a triple Rittberger, as well as having numerous attempts to open in flight triple jumps. & Nbsp; They got positive feedback for Samantha Cesario and Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA, who recently competed in the Finlandia Trophy.
On the front of the pairs of art, not the Russians took to the track Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, landed late in Chicago. The couple that has most impressed & egrave; was Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, appeared at ease on twist, lifting, launched and this time on the jumps in parallel, habitual heel d & rsquo; Achilles. The former junior world champions were accompanied in Illinois by John Zimmermann and Ingo Steuer that for several weeks now & it egrave; joined the working group of Coral Springs in Florida.
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