Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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Skate America, the opening stage of the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, we & egrave; concluded with the success of Elena Radionova in the women's competition.
Monday 27 October 2014 8 minutes reading time
Fifteen Moscow & egrave; managed to overturn the result of the short program bypassing compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, unbeaten so far this season
For Russia & egrave; came the thirteenth goals of the story, but only the second in the last ten years later that branded Pogorilaya / Sotnikova last season (Cup of China).
Radionova, although it has not expressed on the level of excellence of the Japan Trophy in early October, has completed the segment pi & ugrave; Long race two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two lutz landed with some heartache too. L & rsquo; student Inna Goncharenko clocked by far the best technical score of revealing security steps and spins, which have earned the level & more ugrave; high available. In & rsquo; occasion, in addition to the first successful career in Grand Prix, he also got a new personal best as well as & egrave; the best performance of the season by far.
Tuktamysheva, after almost two years of absence, & egrave; back to peep on the podium in a stage of the Grand Prix, but you & egrave; had to settle for place d & rsquo; honor because of the & ldquo; defeat at the Battle of triple & rdquo ;. The seventeen year old coached by Alexei Mishin, in fact, completed two double axel and five triple jumps, including two excellent lutz, paying duty than Radionova because of a completed double salchow instead of & eacute; triple-triple toe loop combination and because of / double toe loop that, according to the plans of the day before, would be finished with a triple toe loop. The result is still the most Tuktamysheva & ugrave; that positive whereas reaches the end of a genuine tour de force that & rsquo; she was busy in five races in the last six weeks.
L & rsquo; pending US Gracie Gold & egrave; was clearly outclassed by the Russian enemy, but kept afloat by scoring & more ugrave; high on the components of the program, & egrave; still managed to finish on the podium. In the free program, which is stored a decent start, enhanced by a & rsquo; s excellent combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, & egrave; dropped dramatically in the second half & agrave; music by saving the tooth & rsquo; landing of the second triple lutz and the second double axel and double salchow combination seeing cancel / double toe loop / double toe loop to have committed the & rsquo; naivete & agrave; perform three double toe loop in the program. On balance, the national champion Stars and Stripes has completed two double axel and five triple jumps, spins and steps which added good quality & agrave ;.
Gold preceding the twenty-compatriot Samantha Cesario, who completed a double axel and seven triple jumps, including a salchow under rotated, but again lost points because of heavy & rsquo; approximation on top of all the elements.
In the fifth place, it & egrave; attested l & rsquo; s emerging Korean So Youn Park, able to perform to the best two double axel and six triple jumps, including a triple combination salchow / triple toe loop well executed. Despite the regret for a bad fall on a triple double Rittberger degraded, the seventeen year old Seoul scored the second technical score of the day. However, to make the leap in quality & will have agrave ;, & agrave; now enrich the program of some passages of transition & more ugrave; and above will have & agrave; reveal more personality & agrave; on the ice.
The other members on the stage, quite detached from the top five ranked, finished the race wrapped in a piece of a dozen points. The group of outsiders & egrave; adjusted comeback Mirai Nagasu of the US, which, despite a long series of jumps under rotated, got the better of a few tenths on the Georgian Elene Gedevanishvili and Japanese Haruka Imai. After that, you & egrave; placed a disappointing French Ma & egrave; Berenice Meit & egrave ;, who ruled the & rsquo; Australian Brooklee Han, author of the new national record, and the & rsquo; Ukrainian Natalia Popova.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) (RUS) - Elena Radionova & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 195.47 (2 | 1) PB, SR02) (RUS) - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 189.62 (1 | 2) 03) (USA) - Gracie GOLD & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 179.38 (3 | 3) 04) (USA) - Samantha CESARIO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 174.58 (4 | 4) PB05) (KOR) - So Youn PARK & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 170.43 (5 | 5) SB06) (USA) - Mirai NAGASU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 158.21 (10 | 6) 07) (GEO) - Elene GEDEVANISHVILI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 158.10 (6 | 9) SB08) (JPN) - Haruka IMAI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 157.97 (8 | 7) SB09) (FRA) - Mae Berenice MEITE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 152.71 (7 | 10) SB10) (AUS) - Brooklee HAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 150.37 (11 | 8) NR11) (UKR) - Natalia POPOVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 148.15 (9 | 11)
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