Figure skating - Cup of China 2015
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The "Cup of China", the third stage of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating hosted by the "Capital Indoor Stadium" in Beijing, opened its doors in the morning with the Italian short-dance.
Friday 6 November 2015 5 minutes reading time
A segment of the race featured a total severity & agrave; the technical panel who awarded & egrave; He managed to avoid steps to empty noteworthy excelling, consequently, on the technical front.
The first position & egrave; It was won by the Italian couple composed of Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, able in the past to file ten podium finishes in the circuit without taking the step pi & ugrave; high. The national champions in office were the best of the lot on the intricate sequences ravensburger waltz and the competition proved to be by far the most & ugrave; punctual on twizzle. On the sidelines, the choice of music (The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar) & egrave; seemed one of the most & ugrave; spot on for the theme required by the pattern. The 'only downsides & egrave; was represented by a deduction for sollevameto prolonged, however curiously it arrived also for his teammates training Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley, Slovak pair who finished in fifth place.
Americans Madison Choch / Evan Bates, still seasonal record holders in the segment of the race, had to settle for second place, affected in particular by a bloody mistake of Chock on twizzle, cost him dearly in terms of the level and degree of realization. Students Igor Shpilband, not & egrave; un''impeccabile enough realization of the partial sequence and the final lift to succeed in supplication to step load. As expected, the dominaori Skate America were the best of each item of the program components, but, for the first time in the last two seasons, they were beaten in a segment of the race with a qualifying round.
The expected Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin have not gone beyond the third coin leaving some perplexity & agrave; for choosing music as the medley of Queen presented in Beijing does not seem to reflect the standards of the waltz (Somebody to Love) and much less of the march (We Will Rock You). A parity & agrave; levels, the current leaders of the Russian movement were outclassed by Cappellini / Lanotte in terms of the degree of realization, that sounds immediately as a wake-up 'call to the major ambitions of the couple.
In respect of the predictions of the vigil, young Americans Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker stood in fourth place with a clear growth compared to the performance showed two weeks ago at Skate America. To break the significant threshold of sixty points & egrave; It lacked a bit '' Precision sequences of ravensburger waltz.
Finally, surprisingly, have flipped the hierarchies of the Chinese movement as the least quoted Zhao Yue / Xun Zheng prevailed on Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu. It should be noted that the two Asian couple were the only ones to reach level four out of one of the two sequences ravensburger waltz.
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