Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2013
The Russians Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev have mortgaged the third successful career in Grand Prix imposing margin in the short dance with the Rostelecom Cup, now in its eighteenth edition.
Friday 22 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
The race was characterized by stiff hand panel, as evidenced by low levels decisamenti assigned sequences of finnstep. In fact, not only has not seen any level four, but also a level three was made sporadic.
The European champions have had the merit of limiting the damage on the technical side, performing sequences of finnstep level three, in'' occcasione, they managed to improve by a couple of tenths previous personal best on the components of the program.
The expected Canadian Kaetlin Weaver / Andrew Poje, veterans from the splendor of the stage house, they had to settle for second place with a gap next to the seven lengths. Students Pasquale Camerlengo, in disbelief kiss & cry for the score, they were outnumbered by the Russians on each item of the components of the program, but, on balance, have paid the price because of the non-competitive levels on the sequences of finnstep
The lowest step of the podium at the time, occupied by the Russians Ekaterina surprise Rizanova / Tkachenko, who had the better of the highest-rated U.S. Madison Chock / Evan Bates, affected among other things by a'' problematic rotational lift final, but able to approach for the first time in his career the threshold of thirty-three points on components of the program. Moreover, both couples remained in the wake Weaver / Poje, although the qualification for the final of the Canadian couple does not appear in the discussion.
In fifth place, were placed the hosts Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin, which preceded the Canadian Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, even today far from solving the riddle posed by'' sequences finnstep.
Debacle of enormous scope for novices Ukrainian Siobhan Heekin-Canedy/Dimtri Dun and for the French Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron, the authors of the technical scores lowest in the Grand Prix season in progress. However, if on the one hand the result of the Ukrainians is no great wonder in light of the level of performance in the tests b held so far, is a very different story for the Alpine, returning from a convincing performance in the Trophee Eric Bompard in Paris, but today appeared in a daze since the initial twizzles.
'' It's difficult to add something more to a segment of the race, which took place in a climate test after test has become more and more "surreal" ...
SHORT DANCE CLASS
1) (RUS) - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 68.42 (32.86 | 35.56) 2) (CAN) - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 61.50 (27.36 | 34.14) 3) (RUS) - Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO 58.59 (28.00 | 30.59) 4) (USA) - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES 57.80 (25.00 | 32.80) 5) (RUS) - Ksenia Monko / Kirill KHALIAVIN 55.83 (27.58 | 28.25) 6) (CAN) - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER 51.14 ( 23.85 | 27.29) 7) (UKR) - Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN 45.00 (19:29 | 25.71) 8) (FRA ) - Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON 44.49 (17.93 | 27.56) -01.00
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