Figure Skating - Grand Prix Final 2013
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The "Marine Messe" Fukuoka was the scene of yet another challenge'' characterized by high technical and artistic among Americans Meryl Davis / Charlie White and Canadians Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir.
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At the end of two days in each sign of the'' world records retouched, got the better of the defending World Champions as well as defending champions, who have so filed, first in the history of the dance, the fifth victory in the final of the Grand Prix . To date, only the pair of Chinese artistic Shen / Zhao has more claims. Davis / White have also brought their strisca unbeaten in twenty-one months in the course of which were preceded by Virtue / Moir only in the short-Dance of the Four Continents Championships in Osaka.
As expected also in the free dance both associations Americans have outdone themselves by touching the'' absolute perfection. Whether for some than for others, with the exception of a sequence of steps in pairs, each element has reached the maximum level to arrangements, but, in contrast to what happened yesterday, the winners have prevailed on both the technical and the artistic, provided that the components of the program can be defined as follows.
In third place, with a gap of more than twenty lengths were placed the French Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, on the podium for the fourth consecutive year with the satisfaction in the first place to have confirmed the first European couple and secondly, to have obtained the best TES career (technical element score) in the free program. The students have taken advantage of by Igor Shpilband'' harakiri Russians Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, for the umpteenth time'' victims of a fall on a transitional passage of the free dance, which then negatively affected their performance. Fifth place went to Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, today the authors of the worst performance of the season in the segment of the race, despite the potential of their free dance are enormous.
Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, obviously condizonati negative'' from an incident in training on Wednesday, ended the final in sixth position by recording the lowest values ​​on both the technical components of the program. In particular, with respect to the customs, the level of sequences of steps in torque was lower.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (USA) - Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 191.35 (1 | 1) primacy mondiale2) (CAN) - Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 190.00 (2 | 2) primacy canadese3) (FRA) - Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 169.11 (5 | 3) 4) (RUS) - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 166.72 (3 | 4) 5) (CAN) - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 165.04 (4 | 5) 6) (ITA) - Anna Cappellini / Luke LANOTTE 156.58 (6 | 6)
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