Figure skating - Cup of China 2015
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Veterans longtime Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov have lined up at home three pairs of house conquering the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, home of the third qualifying round of the Grand Prix.
Saturday 7 November 2015 5 minutes reading time
The students of Tamara Moskvina, seconds after the short program, were the protagonists of a tight head to head with the favorites on the eve Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, who & egrave; solved with a surprise twist. When, in fact, everything seemed to favor the 'affirmation of the hosts and the audience was about to start the celebrations for the result, the winners of Skate America were penalized a point, but not for an alleged fall of Sui It occurred in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, bens & Igrave; for irregularities & agrave; related to time (time violation). Suddenly & egrave; fell frost and success & egrave; It was cos & Igrave; conquered by the Russian pair, however, previously hailed by the local public at the end of a trial impeccable. In the end, the difference between the pretenders to the success & egrave; state of miserable thirty basis points.
Obviously, as seen on the track, it is one that others deserved the victory and the substantial equality & agrave; emerged in the evaluation of the components of the program is the principal witness to that effect. However, there is an important reason why & egrave; It was correct that the 'balance of power was hanging towards St. Petersburg.
Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov, the authors as well as seasonal NEW primacy & egrave; personnel, have generally been the first in the history of two quads launched, adding all''abituale salchow an unprecedented Rittberger, landed on two feet, but the complete rotation. For the rest, the test to the tune of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony & egrave; He was free of burrs worthy of note and characterized by a perfect execution of the jumps in parallel.
Penalty aside, Sui / Han, in turn, authors of the new personal best, they have played the possibilities & agrave; successful precisely because of inaccuracies on the jumps side by side. The triple salchow Sui & egrave; It was judged under rotated and the 'last jump of the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double toe loop & egrave; It has been degraded. Ci & ograve; Accordingly, the throw jumps (triple salchow and triple flip), the quadruple twist and lifting group five are widely earned the price of bigleitto. With hindsight, & egrave; I lacked the courage to groped quadruple salchow launched pi & ugrave; Sometimes completed training.
In third place stood the junior world champions Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, who unlike most & ugrave; navigated countrymen,
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FINAL STANDINGS
1) RUS - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 216.00 (2 | 1) PB2) CHN - Wenjing ON / Cong HAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 215.62 (1 | 2) PB3) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 197.75 (3 | 3) PB4) CHN - Xuehan WANG / She WANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 186.76 (4 | 4) PB5) RUS - Kristina Astakhova / Alexei ROGONOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 173.36 (6 | 5) 6) GER - Mari VARTMANN / Ruben BLOMMAERT & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 171.41 (5 | 7) PB7) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan Moscovitch & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 166.80 (7 | 6) 8) CAN - Vanessa GRENIER / Maxime DESCHAMPS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 159.34 (8 | 8) PB
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