Figure Skating - Grand Prix Final 2013
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The short-dance of the final of the Grand Prix, hosted by the "Marine Messe" in Fukuoka, has not lived up to expectations by offering a challenge by the high technical content between the defending champions Meryl Davis / Charlie White and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir.
Friday 6 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
Eventually, they got the better of the Americans for a'' gluing, but points to the hand, you are treated to a substantive equality.
Both North American couples have obtained the highest level available on each item, including the'' no-touch tricky midline, but Virtue / Moir, thanks to the degree eseuczione set twizzles, they managed to do score the more technical high. Davis / White have, however, got the better of the sum of the components of the program.
Is one that others have improved their personal best remodeling after a few minutes the world record, which eventually remained in the hands of the defending World Champions.
In third place, with nearly nine points adrift of the top pairs, were placed Russians Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, who, by virtue of the'' impact of the program components, preceded Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, authors of the third technical score of the day. The main disappointed in the short-dance were the French Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, who were tardy due to a step-load of Bourzat on the set of twizzles, but still fully in the race for the bottom step of the podium.
Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte have had to settle for sixth and final level position penalized by not great on twizzles circle and no-touch. On the front of finnstep, instead, the first sequence has obtained the level two, while the second level has reached the maximum available. '' In the economy of the score of the Italian couple has weighed a deduction of two points for an illegal crossing. Beyond the result, is the satisfaction of having edited the personal record in the sum of the components of the program.
SHORT DANCE CLASS
1) (USA) - Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 77.66 (38.93 | 38.73) world record (Video) 2) (CAN) - Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 77.59 (39.08 | 38.51) Canadian record (video) 3) (RUS) - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 68.90 (33.37 | 35.53) (video ) 4) (CAN) - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 67.68 (34.00 | 33.68) (video) 5) (FRA) - Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 66.63 (32.07 | 34.56) (video) 6) (ITA) - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE 61.57 (29.86 | 33.71) (video)
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