Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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The Grand Prix of Figure Skating, now in its twentieth edition, & egrave; open with the short dance-Skate America.
Saturday 25 October 2014 8 minutes reading time
The segment of the race, in accordance with the prediction of the vigil, has spared no satisfaction to the home crowd, many spectators at the & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates, a town located in & rsquo; neighborhood of Chicago.
The first round of & rsquo; waiting game between the pairs of the tip of the US movement, now an orphan Olympic champions Davis / White, has seen come out winners by a wide margin Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who literally crumbled personal best. Students of Igor Shpilband have evacuated both on the technical and on each item of the components of the program by presenting a program already & agrave; finished in most aspects. In particular, the & rsquo; execution sequences paso-doble & egrave; been exemplary and has been the real watershed with opponents.
The fellow Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani had to settle instead of d & rsquo; s honor, outclassed by rivals on or almost as & egrave; every front, as evidenced by the detachment next five lengths. The brothers of Asian origin have managed to win only on the sequence of steps in parallel, in this case a diagonal, but have amassed huge delay because of the lower levels is on the order of compulsory paso-doble, that the creative sequence. Nell''occasione, precision and 'unison Chock / Bates prevailed on speed & agrave; brothers Shibutani.
Third place & egrave; went to the Russians Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, more torque & ugrave; young man in the race. The students of Irina Zhuk and Alexander Svinin, thanks to the & rsquo; s incident in & rsquo; s ultimate workout Stepanova, expressed themselves well below potential, paying duty on the technical side in six of the seven couples faced, but lost levels aside, They gave the & rsquo; s impression of having skated with the handbrake on for most of the test. & nbsp;
At the foot of the podium, stood Italian-Slovak Federica Testa / Csolley Lukas, who ruled the measure of advanced US Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus and Canadians Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams. Students of Robert Pelizzola stood out for the quality & agrave; and the solidity of twizzles & agrave; all the required elements, including sequences related to the dance pattern, historically a specialty & agrave; couple trained by the Italian coach.
The blues Charl & egrave; it Guignard / Marco Fabbri have had to settle for seventh place obtaining conflicting evidence from today's performance. On the one hand, students Barabra Fusar Poli did score the most technical & ugrave; bottom of the career in a top-level event, from & rsquo; others, however, have established the primacy of official staff on the front of the program components. It is the & rsquo; s taste in my mouth for the & rsquo; unusual error on the first twizzle made by blacksmiths, which, on balance, & egrave; cost him third place. On the positive side, it is worth mentioning sequences paso doble and the final rotational lift.
In the eighth and final position, were placed novices Canadian Elisabeth Paradis / Francois-Xavier Ouellette, who, besides having had the & rsquo; s honor of opening the Grand Prix, took their satisfaction to improve the personal best official and obtain the tier four seasonal sequence of creative paso doble, the finish is not indifferent.
The level of the race & egrave; revealed overall high as in the past on one occasion (Skate America, 2013), the pair ranked eighth in a short-dance stage of a Grand Prix was able to score a pi & ugrave; high of 52.11 achieved by students Patrice Lauzon.
The dance competition will end & agrave; in very early Sunday morning.
SHORT DANCE CLASS
01) (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES68,96 (35,39 | 33,57) PB
02) (USA) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 64.14 (31.59 | 32.50) SB
03) (RUS) - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan Bukin & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 56.37 (26.88 | 29.49) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
04) (SVK) Federica TESTA / Lukas CSOLLEY & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 55.63 (30.23 | 25.40) NR
05) (USA) Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin MCMANUS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 55.14 (30.04 | 25.10) PB
06) (CAN) Nicole ORFORD / Thomas WILLIAMS55.10 (28.39 | 26.71) SB
07) (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Mark FABBRI54.18 (25.63 | 28.55)
08) (CAN) Elisabeth PARADIS / Francois-Xavier OUELLETTE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 52.11 (28.26 | 23.85) PB Legend: SB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / personal best NR & ndash; National record / national record
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