Figure skating - Skate America 2013
On the night of Friday, will start the nineteenth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which will conclude in early December with the'' Final Act hosted by the Japanese metropolis Fukuoka.
Wednesday 16 October 2013 4 minutes reading time
As in the other seventeen occasions, the first stage will be Skate America, an event organized by the USFA, Federation of American figure skating.
The races will be held at the "Joe Louis Arena" in Detroit, Michigan metropolis of the historic seat of the first stage of Grand Prix back in 1995 when the circuit was still called "ISU Champions Series." Since then, Skate America was held in Detroit in 1997 and also in 1998.
Spotlight primarily on the dance contest, which will see the starting world champions Meryl Davis / Charlie White, veterans of eighteen months' unbeaten run in the course of which were imposed on every front possible. The U.S. couple, originally from Michigan's own, will go to the hunt for the fourth consecutive victory at Skate America, unprecedented undertaking in the specialty. It should be remembered that the countrymen Belbin / August have five propositions on the bulletin board, but not in consecutive edition.
Students of Marina Zueva, counting the four successes in the final, are imbattutti in the Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup in Moscow in 2009 and has since played in twenty-four competition programs have been defeated on one occasion (Virtue / Moir free dance , final in Tokyo in 2009). An eventual success in Detorit would be the tenth in the qualifying stages and fourteenth ever. Again, Davis / White would establish a new record in solitude because at the moment even the French Anissina / Peizerat have thirteen statements in the circuit, twelve of them in qualifying stages.
The "Joe Louis Arena" usual during the tender of the Detroit Red Wings, one of the most successful hockey franchises in NHL history, will host the debut season of peak torque of the Italian movement. Will, in fact, the game Anna Cappelliini / Luca Lanotte, veterans do glories of'' last calendar year, which has seen them before conqistare the bronze medal in the European Championships and then missing the podium for a'' gluing.
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