Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2015
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Canadians Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford won the fifth straight win in the Grand Prix, including the final, becoming the case twelve months ago in the NHK Trophy, the last leg & nbsp; Qualification of the circuit.
Saturday 28 November 2015 8 minutes reading time
The reigning world champions have had the better of the competition in both segments of the race, but in the free program there have been steps to empty. In particular, the quadruple salchow launched it & egrave; ended with a fall and Duhamel, because a landing of the triple toe loop with step-out and support of a hand on the ice, not & egrave; failed to execute the combination of three jumps. For the rest, twist and lifting were well executed and the feedback on the components of the program have been the most widely & ugrave; high.
Duhamel / Radford, only in specialty & agrave ;, have qualified for the final with two victories, but, number of points scored in the various segments of the race, the Russians Kavaguti / Smirnov have done better.
The podium of the competition hosted by the & ldquo; Big Hat & rdquo; Nagano & egrave; It was completed by the Chinese Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin and by Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, who reversed the positions than the short program, free skating with a few passages here and the vacuum & agrave ;. In particular, the attempt of Asian couple performing quadruple salchow not launched & egrave; went well, cos & Igrave; how & egrave; proved problematic quadruple twist of Americans, not to mention an error for both partnerships on the sequence of jumps in parallel. Nothing to complain, however, about the lifting, the twist of the Chinese and the Americans throw jumps, now they have even bungled elements of spinning top. It is one that others have, however, gained the & rsquo; access to the final in Barcelona, ​​for the movement of stars and stripes was missing since 2007.
Ci & ograve; Accordingly, it should be noted, the questionable attitude of the judge number seven, who, not aware of the dynamics of qualification for the final, deliberately inflated assessments of the US couple, despite not run any danger of elimination Nell & rsquo; occasion, you & egrave; pushed well beyond ridiculous as elements performed with obvious errors have been awarded the highest level of performance available.
Next, they placed the Russians Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat and Canadians Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, separated by little more & ugrave; a point and authors of the new personal best with first brow career beyond the one hundred and eighty points. Both couples have revealed good quality & agrave; on lifting, they run a decent triple twist, but left some points on the plate on the throw jumps and especially on jumps in parallel, due to the difficulty atavistic & agrave; of Bazarova and Iliushechkina. & nbsp;
Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres, eventually sadly sixth, regret, however, long the simple mistake on the top pair in the short program cost them two positions and a historic entry into the final, considering that France & egrave; absent from the distant 2001. In the segment pi & ugrave; long race, the pair took fourth transalpine feedback, not & egrave; for & ograve; It was enough to make up positions. Moreover, in the kiss & amp; Cry & egrave; noted the clear disappointment of Cipres, annoyed at not being able to complete the best combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop planned (the second jump & egrave; been degraded double with disastrous consequences for the degree of realization)
In virt & ugrave; the realized results in Nagano, even Canadians Seguin / Bilodeau, vice-world champions juniors were admitted to the final. As a result, for the first time in history, North America potr & agrave; has three pairs nell''atto final circuit.
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QUALIFIED TO FINALE30 points & ndash; (CAN) - DUHAMEL / RADFORD 28 points & ndash; (RUS) & ndash; KAVAGUTI / SMIRNOV 28 points & ndash; (CHN) & ndash; ON / HAN 24 points & ndash; (RUS) & ndash; Stolbova / Klimov 24 points & ndash; (USA) & ndash; SCIMECA / Knierim 24 points & ndash; (CHN) & ndash; YU / JIN 22 points & ndash; (CAN) & ndash; SEGUIN / BILODEAU RESERVES 20 points & ndash; (CHN) & ndash; PENG / ZHANG 18 points & ndash; (FRA) & ndash; JAMES / CIPRES16 points & ndash; (CHN) & ndash; WANG / WANG
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RANKING NHK TROPHY1) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / RADFORD Eric & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 202.72 (1 | 1) 2) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 191.02 (3 | 2) 3) USA - & nbsp; Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 190.66 (2 | 3) 4) RUS - Vera BAZAROVA / Andrei Deputat & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 181.70 (4 | 5) PB5) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan Moscovitch & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 180.63 (5 | 6) PB6) FRA - Vanessa James / Morgan CIPRES & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 180.20 (6 | 4) 7) USA - Jessica CALALANG / Zack Sidhu & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 150.26 (7 | 7) 8) GBR - Amani FANCY / Christopher BOYADJI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 125.80 (8 | 8)
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