Figure skating - Trophe Eric Bompard 2013
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The "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy" in Paris, home of the twenty-seventh edition of the Trophée Eric Bompard, was the scene today in the afternoon of one of the greatest performances of all time.
Saturday 16 November 2013 7 minutes reading time
The Canadian Patrick Chan, after having touched the world record in the first segment of the race, it was not to be less in the free program crossing score thresholds that were thought until recently unattainable.
The performance of the three times world champion has flirted with the overall performance and has clearly suggested, if there was any doubt about it,'' who will be the man to beat in the next Olympic Games.
'' The interpretation of the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi proved to be simply sublime, but in'' occasion was accompanied by an unprecedented technical content as there is a new judging system. The Toronto native has completed twenty-two in a nearly perfect two quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps not committing the slightest burr in a program of exceptional difficulty, rich in transitional passages and never dull'' from beginning to end. If you want to find the hair in'' egg in a test encyclopedic, you can point out level three, instead of the four expected, in the top combined with change of foot.
For the first time in history, an athlete is able to get more than a hundred points of TES (tecnical element score), ripping the primacy of Japanese Kozuka, arrived at 98.53 in the World Championships in Moscow in 2011, but above all it is , pushed beyond the barrier of 96 points in the program components, touching up more than three points the previous record set by Japanese Daisuke Takahashi (93.58 World Team Trophy in 2013).
Chan has raised the level of'' rod in the free program from 187,96 to 196,75 and brought the absolute primacy of race, already owned, from 280.98 to 295.27, numbers speak for itself.
In addition, he won his tenth win in the Grand Prix final and between qualifying stages, four of which obtained its own in Paris.
In second place, came the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, author, in turn, of a free program of the highest quality, despite the steps to empty the quadruple. The young student of Brian Orser, having in fact aborted tenativo of quadruple Salchow and falling on the quadruple toe loop, put higher gears completing the best eight triples, seven of them in the second half of the disc. Noteworthy, in particular, have proved the triple axel, performed in combination and always preceded by difficult steps, see the controvenda before the second.
'' In the occasion, it was not outdone even the American Jason Brown, able to retouch the absolute personal best by more than twelve points, thanks to a free program in which he made a mistake only the second triple axel, single completed. For the rest, has presented seven triple jumps seasoned with tops that have deserved standing ovation from the four level'' s office. For the'' yet eighteen californianao came the first podium of his career in the circuit.
In fourth position, minimum target to reach the final of the Grand Prix, he finished the Chinese Han Yan, today piutosto far from the level of ecellenza expressed in the Cup of China. On the positive side must be stressed the sumptuous combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, while negative stand out in the fall on the triple axel and the'' error on the calculation of combinations that meant that one of the elements were removed jump presented, in this case the fourth combination opened by a triple flip.
This was followed by the Czech Michal Brezina placed and Chinese Nan Song, appeared in growth compared to the previous appearance in the stage of home.
The Frenchman Florent Amodio, author of the worst free day, you had to settle for seventh place, affected by the problems on the quadruple Salchow and the choice not to submit combinations, films which have already been seen in competition in Beijing. The European vice-champion has had the better of the only Swedish Majorov Alexander, appeared far from that place of form in mid-September had allowed him to win hands down the Lombardy Troph of Sesto San Giovanni.
In light of today's result, Patrick Chan, Yuzuru Hanyu, Daisuke Takahashi and Han Yan are already qualficati for the final of Fukuoka.
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