Figure skating - Cup of China 2015
On the morning of Friday & Igrave ;, you Alzer & agrave; the curtain on the thirteenth edition of the Cup of China, from this season called "Audi" for commercial reasons.
Monday 2 November 2015 16 minutes reading time
The races will be held at the legendary & ldquo; & rdquo Capital Indoor Stadium; Beijing, multifunctional facility with a capacity of over 17,000 seats. It built in 1968, but more & ugrave; restructured, will & agrave; theater in 2022 of the Olympic events of short track and figure skating.
In the past, the Chinese capital has hosted seven qualifying stages and the finals of 2004 and 2010.
The Cup of China & egrave; became part of the Grand Prix until 2003, taking the place of the Bofrost Cup, German stage that & egrave; always held in Gelsenkirchen.
It should be remembered that the 'Asian event for the twelfth time in thirteen occasions & will agrave; the third act of the circuit.
DANCE
In Beijing will go & agrave; stage a & rsquo; intriguing challenge to three, which will involve & agrave; Americans Madison Chock / Evan Bates, Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte and Russians Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhinganshin. The ambitious vice-world champions, already & agrave; Winners in fluency of Skate America as well & egrave; unbeaten in their last three qualifying stages played, baster & agrave; third place to acquire the mathematical certainty of & rsquo; access to the final. As regards, however, Russians and Italians the destinies of this year's Grand Prix will be crossed as the two pairs will compete also in the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, where they will find Canadians Weaver / Poje as the main opponents. L & rsquo; & egrave seasonal opening words; It was positive both for the ones for others. Cappellini / Lanotte they are comfortably set in the Lombardy Trophy September clocking scores of excellence, while Ilinykh / Zhiganshin dominated the Mordovian Ornament, fifth round of the Challenger Series circuit Isu, setting the & rsquo; unbeaten season record. The Italian couple, after having filed the beauty of ten podiums never step onto pi & ugrave; high, prover & agrave; finally dispel the tab & ugrave; victory.
They will then match the young American Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, fresh from brilliant fourth place finish at Skate America, but not yet able to cope with the big guns of the discipline.
The field of participants will & agrave; completed by the Italian-Slovak Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley Shiyue and Chinese Wang / Zinyu Liu, leader of the Asian, Yue Cong / Zhuoming Sun, to debut in the circuit, and Yue Zhao / Xun Zheng, couples with less than a year and a half of life.
Among those enrolled, only Chock / Bates boast successes in the Grand Prix.
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
The average level of proof to be particularly high, considering that six of the eight couples in the competition will be presented in Beijing with more ambitions & ugrave; or less based on the podium.
The underdogs can be equally divided between the Chinese Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, winners of Skate America and the Russians Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, appeared decidedly ball in Mordovian Ornament of half & agrave; October. In particular, the hosts, baster & agrave; third place to acquire the mathematical certainty of & rsquo; access to the final. Obviously, there & rsquo; & egrave; great curiosity & agrave; regarding the technical content of the program free. In fact, the vice-world champions should have quadruple twist and quadruple salchow launched, while the winners of the & rsquo; last European title might respond with quadruple and quadruple salchow Rittberger launched.
On paper, the third force in the field should be the Chinese couple Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, a finalist last season and winner of the last two editions of the World juniors. Moreover, even young Asians are working hard to quadruple salchow launched, which could be presented for the first time in the race just in the stage of home.
In key podium, do not start beaten Canadians Lubov Iliuschechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, who have the technical background agggiunto quadruple flip launched, the Russians Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov, large disappointed Skate America like the Chinese Xuehan Wang / Wang Lei,
In the Asian leg, there will be & agrave; debut in the circuit of the new German couple composed Mari Vartmann and Ruben Blommaert, already & agrave; able to impose itself in the Coupe de Nice a few weeks ago, and the picture of the participants will be & agrave; completed by the Canadians Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, seventh in the recent Skate Canada.
Among the members, the only ones to claim success in the Grand Prix are Sui / Han and Kavaguti / Smirnov.
FEMALE FIELD
Spotlight on the return to competition of Japanese Mao Asada, who won a career-high ten stages of qualification and four finals, but absent from competition from traditional end of March 2014.
Almost twenty-four of Nagoya, appeared in conditions of brilliant form in the Japan Open of & rsquo; opening words autumn, will have & agrave; to deal with the advanced compatriot Rika Hongo, nineteen stationed in Nagoya triumphed in Finland Trophy in early October, and with the Russian teenager Elena Radionova, medalist of the last World Cup debut season, and Anna Pogorilaya, winner of the recent Mordovian Ornament with the still unbeaten primacy autumn.
The hopes of the host are essentially placed in eighteen Zijun Li, defeat & ograve; by less listed seventeen Ziquan Zhao in the Chinese Grand Prix in late September. Third place at the disposal of the host & egrave; He was, however, awarded to Lu Zheng, sixteen of Harbin to debut in the circuit.
In Beijing, the game will be also three Americans Karen Chen, sixteen year veteran of a good fifth at Skate America, Courtney Hicks, nineteen year old who opened the season with a third place in the Nebelhorn Trophy, and Hannah Miller, nineteen accasatasi summer at Rafael Aratuninan court.
The ranks of qualified members also includes eighteen Korean So Youn Park, not gone beyond a disappointing ninth place at Skate America, and the twenty-year old Slovak school American Nicole Rajicova, author of the new national record in the initial stage of the circuit ended in seventh place.
AREA MEN
L & rsquo; man to beat will & agrave; the twenty-four Spanish Javier Fernandez will return & agrave; to compete in China after six months after the world title won in Shanghai. Trover & agrave; waiting for a large and extremely fierce competition.
All & rsquo; student of Brian Orser will touch & agrave; weigh the ambitions of eighteen Chinese Boyang Jin, the first release in a senior international competition. The vice-world champion junior is presenter & agrave; at the starting line with the & rsquo; intention unprecedented run of six quadruples lutz including, in the sum of the two segments of the race. & Nbsp; China Schierer & agrave; even the nineteen Han Yan, fourth at Skate America and regretfully obliged to win to keep hope alive for the finals, as well as & eacute; the twenty-four Nan Song, who will have & agrave; show & nbsp; have what it takes to be the third force of the movement.
L & rsquo; list of contenders for the podium also includes veteran Sergei Voronov, third in last year's final, but the author of an early season a little & rsquo; below expectations, the almost twenty-five Canadian Elladj Balde, who came to blows exponentially in the Nebelhorn Trophy in late September won with merit, and the twenty-four Uzbek Misha Ge, winner of the recent Denkova-Staviski Cup in Sofia during which he made the first attempts to quadruple toe loop in competition.
The role of & rsquo; treacherous outsiders must be divided between the Russian Moris Kvitelashvili, twenty school Tutberidze possess an arsenal of jumps of absolute thickness, and l & rsquo; indecipherable American Richard Dornbush, twenty-four Californian from & rsquo; undoubted potential, but too prone to deleterious steps invane.
In Beijing will & agrave; the game also the twenty-four Ivan Righini, Italian national champion in search of better condition after the compromise being prepared because of a stress fracture in his foot.
Six years away from & rsquo; last appearance, will return & agrave; Grand Prix racing in the twenty-five US Grant Hochstein, while the & rsquo; last invitation left & egrave; He was awarded to nineteen Filipino Michael Christian Martinez.
TELEVISION SCHEDULE AUDI CUP OF CHINA
FRIDAY & Igrave; November 6 08:30 - EUROSPORT 2 - short-dance (live) 10:00 - EUROSPORT 2 - female short program (live) 12:00 - EUROSPORT 2 - male short program (live) 14:00 - EUROSPORT 2 - short program pairs (direct)
NOVEMBRE08 Saturday 7: 00 - EUROSPORT 2 - free dance (live) 09:30 - EUROSPORT 2 - Women's Free program (direct) 11:45 - EUROSPORT 2 - Men's Free program (live) 14:00 - EUROSPORT 2 - free program couples (direct)
NOVEMBRE08 Sunday 8: 00 - EUROSPORT 2 - Gala (direct)
MONDAY & Igrave; NOVEMBRE17 9: 30 - EUROSPORT INT. - Special programs with the best
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