Figure skating - Skate America 2015
On the night of Friday & take Igrave ;, & agrave; off the twenty-first edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which will end & agrave; in the second week of December with the 'Final Act of Barcelona.
Tuesday 20 October 2015 14 minutes reading time
As in the other nineteen occasions, the opening stage will & agrave; Skate America, an event organized by the USFSA, US Figure Skating Federation.
The races will take place at the & ldquo; UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena & rdquo; Milwaukee, Wisconsin center located in that in the past has never hosted the & rsquo; event. Grand Prix included, you have so far played thirty-three & egrave; editions of the great American classic. Curiously, for the third consecutive year, Skate America disputer & agrave; in the northeastern part of the United States.
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FEMALE FIELD
Is not serious; easy to identify a favorite because so many athletes, at least on the eve, may be placed on the same level and the pretenders to the podium with credentials could be at least nine. The attention of the home crowd will be mainly concentrated on Gracie Gold, third last season, but very disappointing during the first and only outing of the season. The nineteen coached by Frank Carroll, announced in good shape, trover & agrave; on its way from Japan Satoko Miyahara, vice-world champion and already & agrave; winner in September of the US International Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City. The seventeen year old student Mie Hamada has, however, reiterated in pi & ugrave; shooting point to the final failure so far in the first two attempts.
The third wheel, or perhaps something more & ugrave ;, named Evgenia Medvedeva, unbeaten in international junior competitions last season and able to impose itself in early October in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava. Almost sixteen Russian has always had a tendency to go wrong from his little feature that especially early in the season could also enable it to make a difference even in the senior class.
In key podium, not leave the rookies jokes Elizabet Turzynbaeva, fifteen Kazakh Messas to light in numerous competitions in summer and autumn, and Karen Chen, sixteen US gi & agrave; on the podium in qualified senior national championships.
The great unknown of & rsquo; & egrave event; represented by seventeen Russian Julia Lipnitskaia, he appeared far from a proper state in recent Finlandia Trophy, but to rise to blows with each passing week. Obviously, l & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze, so far always been able to qualify for the final circuit, will have & agrave; the goal of victory, but that effect will be & agrave; need a change of gear on the elements of jump and, in particular, greater consistency with respect to the last appearances.
The role of outsiders is up to the nineteen Canadian Alaine Chartrand, still in search of the jump of quality & agrave ;, the twenty-two Japanese Haruka Imai, appeared on the ball as ever in & rsquo; Autumn Classic Barrie of last week, and from eighteen Korean So Youn Park, He experienced a situation similar to those of Chartrand despite being technically more & ugrave; complete.
The field of participants will & agrave; completed by twenty Slovak stationed in New Jersey & nbsp; Nicole Rajicova, from nineteen Japanese Miyu Nakashio, and the US Mariah Bell, all to debut in the circuit.
Basically, half & agrave; of members at Skate America he has never taken part in a stage of the Grand Prix in the past. Moreover, the only Gracie Gold & pu ograve; claim success in qualifying.
AREA MEN
Fireworks & rsquo; fireworks announced the men's race, which will see & agrave; opposing the twenty-two Kazakh Denis Ten, the recently struggling with some small physical problem generated by the change of shoes shoes, the seventeen year old Japanese Shoma Uno, ruler of the Japan Open in early October and last season's junior, the nineteen year old Chinese Han Yan, appeared under dazzling form in the first seasonal home, and the twenty year old American Jason Brown, who won a few weeks ago of & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy and busily engaged to be able to enter at least one quad in his free program.
The Asian contingent qualified potr & agrave; count on twenty-four Japanese Takahito Mura, only with the Chinese Han Yan to have gi & agrave; imposed at a point on the circuit.
At least on paper, the veteran Russian Konstantin Menshov, athlete pi & ugrave; senior activities & agrave; from & rsquo; top of his thirty-two springs, compatriot Adian Pitkeev, seventeen so far not able to make his mark in the senior class, and the twenty-three US Max Aaron, pose a step below, ready for & ograve; to question the hierarchies of its quadruple.
Will the game also twenties Australian Brendan Kerry, son d & rsquo; art able to land two quads different, the twenty-seven Israeli Andrei Bychenko, recently overshadowed at home by & rsquo; explosion of young Samohin, the twenty-five Frenchman Florent Amodio, appeared in growth in the Nebelhorn Trophy, but to follow in the shade in the Masters & rsquo; d & rsquo; Orleans, and the American Ross Miner, a veteran of several seasons subdued.
At least on paper, all twelve members at Skate America are equipped with triple axel and should at least make an attempt to quadruple jump.
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
Spotlight on the first seasonal match between the Chinese Wenjing Sui / Cong Han and Russians Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, suitors with credentials to the final victory. First, never able to establish itself in a stage of Grand Prix despite nine podiums between qualification and final, they may have immediately quadruple salchow launched, which would add to quadruple twist. The latter, however, to leave no stone unturned, they will try to execute the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop and along the way should be included in the free program even quadruple salchow launched. On the sidelines, & egrave; important to remember that never in the history of specialty & agrave; & Egrave; It was landed a combination with two triple jumps.
The fight for the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium, should engage the Russians Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov, appeared gi & agrave; in ball in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy in early October, the Chinese Xuehan Wang / Wang Lei, fourth in the Asian movement not gone far from & rsquo; access to the final in the previous edition, the Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, only couple of stars and stripes to have gone beyond the one hundred and ninety points in the race, the Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, vice-world champions juniors appeared subdued in the first seasonal, and the Americans Tarah Kayne / Daniel O & rsquo; Shea, winners of the US International Figure Skating Classic half & agrave; September.
The camp participants will & agrave; completed by the Americans Gretchen Donlan / Nathan Bartholomay, on paper weakest link.
Among those enrolled, only Stolbova / Klimov won in past successes in the circuit.
DANCE
Evidence Dance & egrave; l & rsquo; only one to provide a & rsquo; univocal indication about who can enjoy the underdogs. The hosts Madison Chock / Evan Bates, gi & agrave; ball in the Nebelhorn Trophy in late September, should not, in fact, have any major problems in regulating competition.
The role of the second force in the emerging field should touch Canadians Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, winners of & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava where they showed a far more free dances & ugrave; interesting ones already & agrave; presented.
In Milwaukee will go & agrave; staged the & rsquo; interesting battle between the Americans Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker and Russian Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov, couples who have won the last two world championships juniors. Then there will be the indecipherable Russians Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, left the post in September because of physical problems Katsalapov.
Will, finally, the game also Ukrainians Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin, authors of a pi & ugrave; that decent first season in the category increased, the Chinese Wang Shiyue / Xinyu Liu, peak torque of & rsquo; whole movement Asia, and the US Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, grown progressively in the last two seasons.
Among those enrolled, only Chock / Bates boast successes in the circuit.
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