Figure skating - Skate America 2013
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The statements in the heat of the protagonists of the first day of Skate America, the first stage of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. In'' seasonal opening words were played the men's short program and short dance-
Saturday 19 October 2013 4 minutes reading time
The men's race on the podium sees the provisional Tatsuki Machida Japanese and the Americans Jason Brown and Adam Rippon.
From the words of each transpires satisfaction, but also an anxious wait, in some cases mixed with concern about what will happen in the free program.
"I can not be happy because I finished the short program without errors," said Tatsuki Machida, "Now I feel relieved, but I think the free accontonare tomorrow so I have the happiness of the moment and concentrate on my program "
Definitely in seventh heaven rookie Jason Brown: "First, I am happy to be at Skate America. For me it is a matter of honor to compete in Detroit where public support has been incredible.'m Excited by the fact that I was able to express myself in the race as in training. well I hope to repeat in the free program "
Adam Rippon, however, you feel more ready for the free program: "As far as the short of today, the main goal was to complete the quadruple lutz. Overall, the'' execution may consider it very good. Actually ,'' I felt a little hesitant, but I tried to hide it on the ice. But I think you have prepared the free program even better.'' And a program that I love, why can do better than the short. I think I can perform a quadruple lutz even better "
In the dance, the hosts Meryl Davis / Charlie White preceded the blues Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte and fellow Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutan. "
Charlie White said he was satisfied with the performance, but certainly we can improve, "Our performance was undoubtedly good, but not perfect.'' Let the state of mind of those who know that c'' is still ample room for improvement. From a technical point of view we have progressed on the sequences of Finnstep compared to the'' last competition held (U.S. International Figure Skating Classic). This is an important fact for us. The feeling is that our short- dance has taken the right direction "
Luke also Lanoote expressed himself along the same lines of the U.S.: "In the immediate future,'' we have to focus on how to improve our performance because there is no doubt that today, we spoke to one hundred percent.'' Today is only the start, but we are very pleased with the score and overall performance. "
Elated, however, Alex Shibutani: "Today we were able to put a lot of energy on the ice. It was our main goal. The music of our short-dance is really giggle from skating and I hope that the audience had a good time as we were able to do. "
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