Figure Skating - Grand Prix Final 2013
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Mao Asada, without major worries, emerged victorious from the final of the Grand Prix hosted by the "Marine Messe" Fukuoka.
Saturday 7 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-three Japanese has passed for the third time this season the two hundred points in the sum of the programs, but mostly closed the fourth career success'' in the final act of the circuit equaling the Russian Irina Slutskaja.
Asada, taking advantage of the bad day of the main opponents, dominated the longer segment of the race after-tax in the short program. As announced at the conclusion of the NHK Trophy in Tokyo, decided to submit two triple axels, but the outcomes were not exceptional in that it has collected a fall on the first attempt, while on the second occasion the jump was downgraded to a double. For the rest, the unique'' smear'' has arrived on the last double Rittberger combination with three jumps, while the spinners and the steps were performed at best. While the choice is acceptable to have eliminated the triple lutz from the plane of the race,'' from other the presence of two triple axels affects adversely on the first part of the disc rather poor compared to the previous version of the program.
In second place, driven by the best technical score in the free, it is placed Julia Lipnitskaia, flawless on the tops and complete to the best proficient in six of the seven planned triple. Moreover, the fifteen Russian was'' the only one not to fall during the final of the Grand Prix.
On the lowest rung of the podium went to the American Ashley Wagner, dropped shots in the second part of the free after a convincing start. '' For the student of Rafael Arutuninan was fatal fall on the triple lutz'' indigestible, who represented the prelude to the unusual difficulty of Rittberger and flip, usually the main dishes of the house.
Despite a disastrous fall on the second triple lutz, the fourteen year old Russian Elena Radionova, youngest athlete in the race, has risen to fourth position with six triple jumps well completed. '' It, however, sank the'' waiting Stonikova Adelina, who, after having opened the program with a free sonutosa combination triple lutz / triple Rittberger, was dropped from the first flip, done by now quite usual, and then also by Rittberger and salchow. The seventeen year old Muscovite, second at the end of the short, has not gone beyond a disappointing fifth place, largely impacted by the technical score lower than day.
Anna Pogorilaya, Russian fourth and last in the race, had to settle for sixth place, paying duty, beyond the conseuti errors on the double axel and fall on the triple flip, because of the program's components significantly lower than the competition.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (JPN) - Mao ASADA 204.02 (1 | 1) 2) (RUS) - Julia LIPNITSKAIA 192.07 (4 | 2) 3) (USA) - Ashley WAGNER 187.61 (3 | 3) 4) (RUS) - Elena RADIONOVA 183.02 (5 | 4) 5) (RUS) - Adelina Sotnikova 173.30 (2 | 6) 6) (RUS) - Anna POGORILAYA 171.88 (6 | 5)
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