Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
On the night of Friday & igrave take ;, & agrave; off the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which will end & agrave; at the beginning of December with the 'Final Act of Barcelona.
Tuesday 21 October 2014 13 minutes reading time
As has happened in other eighteen occasions, the opening stage & will agrave; Skate America, an event organized by the USFA, the American Federation of figure skating.
The races will be held at the "Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates, in the town & rsquo; hinterland of Chicago that has never hosted the & rsquo; event. Including Grand Prix, have so far played thirty-two editions of the great American classic.
FEMALE FIELD
The attention of the home crowd will be mainly aimed at the women's race, which will see & agrave; at the start the national champion in charge Gracie Gold, figure skater grown just in Illinois where & egrave; coached up a little more & ugrave; a year ago. However, the nineteen year old student of Frank Carroll, making his debut at Skate America, not partir & agrave; with the underdogs incumbent upon fifteen Russian Elena Radionova, fresh from the glories of the Japan Open where he crushed the qualifying competition. In addition, the main alternative to the young Muscovite should be considered the seventeen year old compatriot Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA, unbeaten in the first part of the season and able to clearly precede Gold in the Nebelhorn Trophy in September. The fact that & rsquo; latest Russian victory in the United States dates back to the stage back in 2005, when Elena Sokolova was imposed in Atlantic City, will represent & agrave; a further stimulus for both Radionova for TUKTAMYSHEVA, respectively the third and fourth last season.
The qualified field of participants also includes the almost seventeen So Youn Park, the current element to the point of & rsquo; emerging movement Korean, twenty year-old French Mae Berenice Meite, who by & rsquo; beginning of & rsquo; summer trains just in Chicago, and the twenty-one American Samantha Cesario recently second in the Finlandia Trophy without convincing, and Mirai Nagasu, in search of the glories of the past and in the spring by veteran & rsquo; yet another change of coaching staff.
Archived waivers last minute Joshi Helgesson of Sweden, the athletes in the race will be only eleven o'clock. Will fly at a time of & rsquo; Illinois also the twenty-Japanese Haruka Imai, tutt & rsquo; nothing but brilliant in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy of horrors, the twenty-four Georgian Elene Gedevanishvili, its sixth appearance in career at Skate America, the nineteen year-old American Australian passport Brookle Han, announced in growth after a stuttering start to the season, and the twenty-Ukrainian Natalia Popova, working with some success in the Coupe de Nice in the past week. It should be noted that for Gedevanishvili, Han and Popova, skaters who live and train in the United States, Skate America is a kind of stage house.
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FIELD MEN
Fireworks & rsquo; artifice announced in the men's race which will see & agrave; opposing the twenty-four Japanese Tatsuki Machida, ruler of & rsquo; latest edition of Skate America and vice-world champion, and the twenty-Kazakh Denis Ten, Olympic medalist, but never starring in the Grand Prix.
The two traded Asian athletes will have to contend with the hosts Jason Brown, with nineteen trasorsi in Illinois winner of the recent Nebelhorn Trophy, and Jeremy Abbott, twenty-nine national champion in office who, after a brilliant fifth place in the World Championships in Saitama, abandoned About every withdrawal.
In key podium, do not leave the beaten sixteen year old Canadian Nam Nguyen, junior world title holder and a few days ago in the great sweep in the free program of & rsquo; Autumn Classic, as well as & eacute; Russians Adya Pitkeev, sixteen year old student of Ethers Tutberdize to debut in the circuit as Nguyen, and Artur Gachinski, twenty-one in the spring has abandoned Alexei Mishin to marry by Tatiana Tarasova.
Will the game even twenty-five French Chafik Besseghier, ruler of the Master & rsquo, s d & rsquo; Orleans in early October, and the seventeen year old Filipino stationed in California Michael Christian Martinez, able to retouch the national record in the Lombardy Trophy in September.
The field of participants & egrave; completed by the twenty-six American Douglas Razzano, from twenty-two and twenty-six Hendrickx Belgian Jorik Ukrainian Alexei Bychenko Israeli passport.
COUPLE OF ARTISTIC
Compared to the original framework, l & rsquo; list of members & egrave; been depleted by waivers for different reasons the Russians Volosozhar / Trankov, the Italian Berton / Hotarek and German Wende / Wende.
The table seems perci & ograve; set for the falling Russians Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, making his debut as a couple at Skate America and downright brilliant in the first outing of the season in Oberstdorf. In truth & agrave ;, over ten years ago Kavaguti & ograve participant; twice to the American stage with the former partner Alexander Markuntsov.
Students of & rsquo; stainless Tamara Mosvkina, still on the track in spite of the intentions of withdrawal pi & ugrave; times expressed during the past season, will have to ograve &; to deal with the emerging Chinese Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, one of the pairs pi & ugrave; of electrifying & rsquo; entire circuit on the technical side.
The podium is l & rsquo; stated goal also couples US Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, winners in the comeback of the US International Figure Skating Classic in September, and Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, winners in the Lombardy Trophy and growing exponentially in this incipit season.
Are then followed with interest the current leader of the German movement Annabelle Pr & ouml, l & szlig; / Ruben Blommaert, the Canadian junior national champions Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, making his debut in the circuit cos & igrave; as the Americans Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage, defending champions and fellow national junior training Scimeca / Knierim.
L & rsquo; list of participants & egrave; completed by Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer, the first Austrian couple in history to take part in the Grand Prix, but engaged in an exceedingly currently above its possibilities & agrave ;.
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DANCE
In Illinois will begin & agrave; officially l & rsquo; post was Davis / White, winners of the last four editions of Skate America and the Grand Prix ran away from the autumn of 2009.
The & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates sar & agrave; theater of the first round of the match between Madison Chock / Evan Bates and Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, American couples in open struggle for the succession to the illustrious countrymen. Is one that the others have all & rsquo; inaugural event of the circuit of the strong results achieved in the stages of ISU Challenger Series, which saw them cross for the first time in his career a hundred points in the free dance.
The role of the third force in the field is expected to reach young Russians Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, appeared in evident growth in the recent Finlandia Trophy. However, the former world junior champions will have to watch their backs from the Italian Marco Fabbri / Charl & egrave, it Guignard, on the technical side not far from the three couples eligible candidates for the podium and awarded a few days ago with a well-deserved second stage of the Grand Prix.
There will also be the Slovaks school Italian Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley, students of Roberto Pelizzola and Paola Mezzadri to debut in the Grand Prix, Canadians Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams, not brilliant in & rsquo; Autumn Classic a few days ago, the Americans Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, twice on the podium in & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series but clearly beaten by Orford / Williams in Salt Lake City, and finally novices Canadian Elisabeth Paradis / Francois-Xavier Ouellette, one of the many couples dell''emergente school Montreal, directed by Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon with the collaboration of Romain Haguenauer.
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