Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2014
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The first day of the Rostelecom Cup fourth round of the Grand Prix hosted by the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow, you & egrave; concluded with the & rsquo; s highly anticipated short dance.
Friday 14 November 2014 7 minutes reading time
Taken for granted since the eve of the first position of the Americans Madison Chock / Evan Bates, arrived on time with a result close to the record seasonal gi & agrave; in their possession, the attention of the public and experts were directed to the first direct confrontation between Russian couples Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin and Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, fresh from the mixing of partners has been the leitmotif of last spring.
To prevail, and even with huge margin were Ilinykh / Zhiganshin, cheered loudly by the audience at the end of a performance of character and quality & agrave ;. Students of the tandem Kustarova / Alexeeva prevailed rivals on each item of the program components and four of the five mandatory elements, building up a lead of more than six points, hardly predictable at the start.
Ilinykh / Zhiganshin, took to the track immediately after learning the score from Sinitsina / Katsalapov, skated at rates much higher and with an exciting enthusiasm that found no terms of comparison between the opponents. Not surprisingly, reached the second output feedback career well above the & rsquo; eight out of each component of the program.
In the end, the couple based in Moscow & egrave; able to conclude the segment of the race in second place, while rivals moved to the United States have not gone beyond the fourth.
Of course, despite the collective focus was aimed at Russian couples, not & egrave; gone unnoticed growth on components of the program by Chock / Bates, formerly arrived at 33.57 points, but today scollinati share over 35. Students of Igor Shpilband, like all couples in the race, they paid duty on the sequences of paso doble, but thanks to evaluations of respect on the degree of implementation are still able to limit the damage, suggesting a serious bid for victory in the circuit.
On the sidelines, it should be noted as the technical panel was extremely severe on each call provoking an obvious annoyance on the part of athletes and coaches, displaced by the meter used. In compensation for ograve ;, & judges have proved more & ugrave; generous than usual on the degree of implementation and program components.
In third place, came the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, never on the podium of his career in a stage of Grand Prix. Students Evgeni Platov, the best of the lot on the sequence of steps in parallel, may, however, complain to the lost points on twizzles not gone beyond a mere level one, and especially on the lift, normally the highlight of the house.
The fifth & egrave; go to disappointing Russian Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, able to solve the problem on twizzles who had put up at Skate America, but still outclassed by Sinitsina / Katsalapov, gi & agrave; scollinati the first time beyond the thirty-one points on the components of the program.
Next, they placed the Americans Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton, who, surprisingly, they were right countrymen Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, now penalized by a & rsquo; rough sequence of steps in parallel, but still higher than the second score .
The Koreans Kim Rebeka / Kirill Minov closed the segment of the race after the group with huge departure from the competition, but, by virtue & ugrave; the presence here today, have written an important page in the history of figure skating in the Asian country.
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SHORT DANCE CLASS
1) (USA) - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 68.86 (33.64 | 35.22) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 2) (RUS) - Elena ILINYKH / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN64.12 (31.03 | 33.09) & nbsp; PB3) (GBR) - Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 59.55 (26.89 | 32.66) SB4) (RUS) - Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 57.96 (26.85 | 31.11) SB5) (RUS) - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN56.90 (27.64 | 29.26) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 6) (USA) - Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 54.39 (27.05 | 27.34) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 7) (USA) - Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER52.86 (24.28 | 28.58) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 8) (KOR) - Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV46.14 (22:29 | 23.85) SB
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