Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2015
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The second day of the NHK Trophy, the last stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix, you & egrave; ended with the women's free program, segment tendering dissolved the last remaining doubts about the athletes qualified for the final in Barcelona.
Saturday 28 November 2015 4 minutes reading time
The "Big Hat" Nagano & egrave; It was the scene of a trial characterized by the many steps to empty most of the stars & more ugrave; expectations, appeared far from the splendor of the previous events. On balance, the script is & egrave; proved to be the same of the short program yesterday.
The 'only one to have departed from the downtrend & egrave; was the vice-world champion Satoko Miyahara, who, not surprisingly, is & egrave; tax leakage. For diciasttenne Kyoto & egrave; treated the race of firsts as he collected his first win in the Grand Prix, the first qualifier for the final, the first free program quotacentotrenta over and above the first competition than the significant threshold of two hundred points.
Having imposed in the first segment of the race with a new personal best, the 'student Mie Hamada is & egrave; repeated in the free program revealing un''importante growth on evaluation of each program component. In truth agrave ;, & Miyahara, despite some rotation to the limit, & egrave; been widely the best on the technical side and, in particular, the 'only to complete seven triple jumps, including two lutz
The young Japanese preceded the US Courtney Hicks, the first podium of his career in the circuit. The nineteen year old Californian, second after the short program, was able to react to a start as simple free program, characterized by a combination triple flip / triple toe loop, built with considerable effort and a triple lutz ended with a disastrous fall. Also in this case, a fundamental role & egrave; It was recited by evaluations of program components, much more & ugrave; greater than before. On the sidelines, it should be noted as Hicks is one of the few athletes to run in a technically correct is that the triple flip triple lutz.
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QUALIFIED FOR THE FINAL
28 points (RUS) Evgenia Medvedeva 28 points (USA) GOLD Gracie 26 points (RUS) Radionova Elena 26 points (JPN) MIYAHARA Satoko
24 points (JPN) 22 points Mao ASADA (USA) Ashley WAGNER RESERVES 20 points (JPN) HONGO Rika 20 points (RUS) TUKTAMYSHEVA Elizaveta 18 points (USA) HICKS Courtney
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