Figure Skating - NHK Trophy 2013
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The second day of the Tokyo NHK Trophy, the fourth stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix of Figure Skating has opened in the late morning with the Japanese short-dance.
Saturday 9 November 2013 8 minutes reading time
Was it because of the difficulty of adattmento time zone or the fact that he competed on the ice of the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in conjunction with the'' time for lunch, but the segment of today's race will not pass the record as the most qualified in history from the technical point of view.
In respect of the discounted prediction of the vigil, the best were the Americans Meryl Davis / Charlie White, who, by virtue of the nine-point margin on the most abundant immediate followers, have placed the'' mortgage on the fourteenth consecutive win in the circuit between stages and finals. Calendar in hand, the'' last defeat in the Grand Prix dates back to the fall of 2008 when the defending World Champions ended on the lowest step of the podium the'' final act in Goyang City in Korea.
Students of Marina Zueva have failed to confirm the feedback on the program components obtained in the winning ride of Skate America even increasing your score by a few cents, but they have left on the plate heavy points on the technical front due to an unusual level three on the set of twizzles. Moreover, compared to the previous output, failure is also something on finnstep as the first of the two sequences is stopped at level three. It is therefore not enough better smoothness, in any case awarded the degree of execution, to reconfirm the points stored in Detroit. Davis / White stopped at a remarkable 73.70, however, the result of two lengths lower than that recorded in the first leg of the Grand Prix.
In second place, were placed Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, which, with today's result, have made a significant step forward towards the conquest of the Grand Prix Final. The blue pair, in fact, he needs to conclude the appointment Japanese'' instead of'' honor to earn the almost mathematical certainty to be the game in Fukuoka at the beginning of December. A little'' as happened, for Davis / White performance of the students of tandem Mezzadri / Shpilband was not comparable to that of a technical Skate America, but there is at least'' was an increase of almost three tenths on the components of the program. The points, however, missing from the TES (tecnical element score) were determined by dual two level obtained on the second sequence of finnstep and no touch on the rim.
In third place, with lots of technical score of the second day, you travano a little'' surprise the Americans Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, unique among the many veterans of Skate America in the race to record an improvement on the technical front and on each voice of the components of the program. Not surprisingly, the detachment from the Italian couple declined by more than seven points coming in at just under one and a half.
The expected Russian Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov, the first international outing of the season, they paid a bill overly salty on the technical side, they put a piece in part thanks to the second performance of the day in the sum of the components of the program. Aside from the eye-catching transition to empty the twizzles, students of Nikolai Morozov have put together quite low levels on each item, spinning excluded, not going beyond a disappointing fourth position to more than thirteen points behind the lead.
Follow Ranked Canadians Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, couple making its debut season, which have prevailed over the German-Italian Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso, one of the few in the race to get a level four out of one of the sequences of finnstep in the first case, and the hosts Cathy Reed / Chris Reed, unable to repeat the performance technique Skate America.
'' The last position is occupied by the sadly former Junior World Champions Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, only couple, apart from Chinese, not to exceed the threshold of fifty points in the short-dance of the first four stages of the Grand Prix. However, on the outcome of young Russians weighs the disastrous fall of Victoria Sinitsina during the first sequence of finnstep, which did not get the level and caused a noticeable interruption'' in the program, an additional cause of penalty point.
RANKING-SHORT DANCE
1) (USA) Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 73.70 (35.35 | 38.35) 2) (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE 64.58 ( 30.93 | 33.65) 3) Maia Shibutani / Alex SHIBUTANI63.09 (31.93 | 31.16) 4) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita KATSALAPOV61. 35 (27.58 | 33.77) 5) Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER55.20 (28.57 | 26.63) 6) (GER) Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO52.39 (27.21 | 25.18) 7) In (JPN) Cathy REED / Chris REED51.91 (25.15 | 26.76) 8) (RUS) Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN44.34 (20.79 | 25.55)
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