Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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Madison Chock and Evan / Bates won the first victory of his career in a top-level competition winning by dispersion at Skate America, the opening stage of the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating.
Sunday 26 October 2014 10 minutes reading time
In & rsquo; occasion, the audience of & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates was able to celebrate a historical event for the dance stars stripes because, in fact never happened discipline, the top two positions were occupied by couples in the US. In the past, only Russia (seven times), Canada (three times) and France (once) had managed to achieve two goals.
Moreover, thanks to the success of today, the twenty-third in a qualifying round of the Grand Prix of the United States has taken a solo second behind Russia (28 claims) and ahead of France (22 hits) and Canada (21 wins).
Chock / Bates, fifth pair the Stars and Stripes to win the Grand Prix, dominated the race from one end & rsquo; another by scoring the highest marks in each segment of the race and exceeding for the first time in his career the threshold of 170 points, Once you've crossed today by seven pairs, three of which are still in business & agrave ;. Even in the free dance, where they skated to the tune of & ldquo; An American in Paris & rdquo ;, the superiority & agrave; than their opponents & egrave; been overwhelming both on the technical and on each component of the program, although there are some details still to be fixed, as evidenced by the level lost on the rotational lift and level two and got the circular sequence of steps in pairs, keeping in mind that the lift in general there are plenty of room for growth.
Second place, with a gap greater than the ten points, & egrave; went to Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, literally left knee in the first game of the season for the leadership of the US movement. Students of Marina Zoueva and Massimo Scali were able to outperform rivals only on the lift, but, as was the case in the short-dance yesterday, they left the street a & ldquo; bloody level & rdquo; on twizzles and today they paid the duty imposed on & rsquo; s performance of the top. Technical aspect aside, concerned that the judges have expressed greater appreciation for the free dance of Chock / Bates of schedule on classics by Johann Strauss presented by the brothers of Asian origin.
On the sidelines must be stressed as the victory of Igor Shpilband, technical and choreographer of the winners, on '' & ldquo; ex-girlfriend of snacks & rdquo; Marina Zoueva has been overwhelming.
In the key qualification for the final, nothing is compromised, but the Shibutani will now have to get at least a second place in the Cup of China in Beijing, where they will face world champions Cappellini / Lanotte, the emerging French Papadakis / Cizeron and the loose cannon Ilinikh / Zhiganshin, Russian couple recently formed.
Just about Russia, young Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin won the third position, storing the first podium of his career in the circuit. Students of the tandem Zhuk / Svinin skated in the free dance to the tune of & ldquo; & rdquo ;, why Eleanor Rigby Beatles, confirming that something will have to & agrave; be reviewed on & rsquo; execution of twizzles, stranded again at level one, made unusual for a couple with ambitions if not leading right behind.
The palm detection of the race it is for beginners Canadian Elisabeth Paradis / Francois-Xavier Ouellette, recovered from & rsquo; s eighth place in the short-dance to the foot of the podium thanks to a technical score of the basis of & rsquo; height of the winners of the competition. The result of Skate America is a & rsquo; further evidence of the & rsquo; s excellent work from & rsquo; s emerging school in Montreal, where Patrice Lauzone and Marie-France Dubreuil joined forces with Romain Haguenauer, once one of their technicians. & Nbsp; The placement of Paradis / Ouellette & egrave; important because & eacute; puts them in fourth place in the hierarchy of the Canadian movement behind Weaver / Poje, Gilles / Poirier and Paul / Islam, but before the fickle Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams went over the & rsquo; s eighth and final position in the first leg of the Grand Prix.
The pair consists of blue Charl & egrave; it Guignard and Marco Fabbri & egrave; due to settle for sixth place behind the US advanced Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, but rimpianger & agrave; long the two points lost due to so many extended lifts that cost two positions in the standings. The performance in the free dance is & egrave; revealed, in any case, pi & ugrave; convincing than that of the short-dance and & egrave; was characterized dall''aver reached the level & more ugrave; the upper hand on all the elements provided, with the exception of the two sequences of steps a couple who stopped at level two.
Finally, the Italian-Slovak Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley have lost three positions in the standings finishing seventh. For students of Robert Pelizzola fatal & egrave; was a & rsquo; unusual fall on the sequence of steps in a circle.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (USA) - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES171.03 (1 | 1) PB, SR
2) (USA) - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 160.33 & nbsp; (2 | 2)
3) (RUS) - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan Bukin & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 143.87 & nbsp; (3 | 3)
4) (CAN) - Elisabeth PARADIS / Francois-Xavier OUELLETTE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 137.30 (8 | 4) PB
5) (USA) - Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin MCMANUS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 135.61 (5 | 6) PB
6) (ENG) - Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 135.50 & nbsp; (7 | 5)
7) (SVK) - Federica TESTA / Lukas CSOLLEY & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 131.72 (4 | 7) SB
8) (CAN) - Nicole ORFORD / Thomas WILLIAMS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 128.88 (6 | 7)
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