Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2013
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The men's short program of the eighteenth edition of the Rostelecom Cup was characterized by evidence of enormous technical depth of the Russian Maxim Kovtun that with today's result has put a serious claim on input'' in the final
Friday 22 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
The dicottenne stationed in Moscow was expressed at levels of absolute excellence on the elements of completing a jump combination quadruple salchow / triple toe loop, a quad toe loop preceded by the step (not too obvious) and a good triple axel in the second half of the disc . Supported by a degree of execution that has compensated to some trimming on the spinners, he managed to get over 52 points of TES (technical elements score), so far threshold exceeded only by Hanyu and Chan. In addition, compared to the best performance of the past, there has been a growth of more than four points in the sum of the components of the program, which allowed him to climb to fourth place in all-time program courts behind Chan (98, 52), Takahashi (95.55) and Hanyu (95.37). In automatic mode, it also got the new European record, even ripped to Evgeni Plushenko (91,30).
In second place, finished the Japanese Tatsuki Machida, pre-race favorite, but today suffers from a landing with step-out combination of quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop and feedback on program components lower than'' s current leader . '' The student Anthony Liu, a fourth place which is sufficient to enter the final, accumulated over Kovtun a detachment of more than seven and a half points, also the result of a degree of execution not comparable.
The lowest rung of the podium is currently occupied by the Spaniard Javier Fernandez, who fell to quadruple salchow completed and then forced to attack in the triple lutz double toe loop. The European champion was, in any case, the best day on the sum of the components of the program being outclassed by Kovtun only under "performance / execution":
More disconnected all the others, regulated by the Russian Konstantin Menshov, able to complete the triple axel and quadruple toe loop, but then in trouble on the lutz, completed only twice. Following were placed Artur Gachinski, who fell on the quad and then attempt to pass on a transition, the German Peter Liebers, now abandoned by the triple axel, the American Richard Dornbush, difficulty in jumping on tuttli elements, and l ' 'Misha Ge of Uzbekistan.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT
1) (RUS) - Maxim Kovtun 92.53 (51.78 | 40.75) 2) (JPN) - Tatsuki MACHIDA 84.90 , (44.50 | 40.40) 3) (SPA) - Javier FERNANDEZ 81.87 (41.02 | 41.85) 4) (RUS) - Konstantin Menshov 72.43 (35.46 | 36.97) 5) (RUS) - Artur GACHINSKI 72.18 (38.93 | 35.25) 6) (GER) - Peter LIEBERS 65.38 (32.63 | 33.75) 7) (USA) - Richard Dornbush 63.74 (27.82 | 36.92) 8) (UZB) - Misha GE 63.23 (31.11 | 33.12)
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