Figure skating - Grand Prix Final 2014/2015
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The short program of the women's final of the Grand Prix has not fulfilled the expectations of the vigil. In fact, despite all the athletes in the race have pushed beyond the threshold of sixty points, the only Japanese Rika Hongo, ranked fifth, & egrave; able to perform a test without big smudge.
Thursday 11 December 2014 7 minutes reading time
At the CCIB in Barcelona, ​​home of & rsquo; final act of the circuit, & egrave; was the voltage to become the main protagonist and, not surprisingly, there have been mistakes noteworthy even by skaters pi & ugrave; expectations. The ranking has, in any case, to smile & rsquo; Russian army, the hunt for that success is lacking in the board back in 2004, when Irina Slutskaja prevailed in the final in Beijing.
The first place & egrave; went to the seventeen year old Russian Elizaveta Tuktsmysheva driven by the best technical score of the day, despite landing a triple lutz with a ride too. Error aside, l & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin & egrave; was overwhelming on the sequence of steps and above all performed flawlessly the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, complete with arms raised on the second jump. Nell & rsquo; occasion, Tuktamysheva also obtained feedback pi & ugrave; high career on program components managing to accumulate a margin greater than the point on the pi & ugrave; immediate pursuer.
In second place, it & egrave; placed compatriot Julia Lipnitskaia, returned to present good results with the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop. However, a test initially appeared spotless & egrave; been compromised by an unusual error on top combined, determined by an initial short position, and a call on the wrong thread triple flip preceded by step. Moreover, in the past, at least on the flip, Lipnitskaia had never received comments on the wire input.
Covering more & ugrave; Sometimes the jump, it remains difficult to judge, but l & rsquo; impression, both to flip it for lutz, seems to jump closer to the outside edge, but pointed to by an internal position. On the sidelines, it should be noted as the first step of the triple flip was not cos & Igrave; evident. L & rsquo; pupil of Ethers Tutberidze, appeared puzzled by the end result, you & egrave; partially consoled with the highest score in the sum of the components of the program.
To follow, albeit with some regret today's performance, reached two other teen-ager coaster. the podium & egrave; completed by fifteen Elena Radionova, today appeared less bright than other occasions and, specifically, penalized by a & rsquo; unusual fall on the triple Rittberger preceded by step, that & rsquo; left her nearly four points behind the leader.
The sixteen year old Anna Pogorilaya you & egrave ;, however, due to settle for fourth place at the end of a program with light and shadow. The sixteen year old Muscovite, only to reach the level pi & ugrave; high available on spins and steps, he caught a dull day on the elements of jump. In particular, after having landed with some heartache too triple lutz, in the intention of opening jump combination, tried to attack a triple toe loop to triple Rittberger falling into ruin without completing the rotation. Pogorilaya & egrave; still managed to limit the damage, reaching for the first time in his career thirty points in the sum of the components of the program.
Fifth place & egrave; went to the Japanese Rika Hongo, satisfied to have obtained the personal best, propitiated by the third technical score of the day.
The American Ashley Wagner, the only adult in the race, not & egrave; gone beyond sixth place showing once again that it is not in possession of a technical skills comparable to that of the main opponents. Nell & rsquo; occasion, fatal & egrave; was landing with a step-out of the triple flip, which has precluded the possibility & agrave; to perform a combination of two triple jumps.
The free program Saturday promises to open to any scenario in virt & ugrave; the fact that the detachment from the first and last classified & egrave; nell''ordine remained seven points.
RANKING PROGRAM SHORT
1) (RUS) - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 67.52 (35.89 | 31.63) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 2) (RUS) - Julia LIPNITSKAIA66.24 (34.58 | 31.66) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 3) (RUS) - Elena RADIONOVA63.89 (33.63 | 31.26) -1004) (RUS) - Anna Pogorilaya & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 61.34 (32.34 | 30.00) -1005) (JPN) - Rika HONGO61.10 (33.96 | 27.14) 6) (USA) - Ashley WAGNER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 60.24 (29.84 | 30.40)
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