Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2014
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It & rsquo; jumped over the counter in the women's Rostelecom Cup fourth round of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating hosted by the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow.
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The victory & egrave; went to the landlady Anna Pogorilaya, but, against all odds, the Japanese Rika Hongo, & nbsp; one of the pleasant surprises of this first part of the season.
The eighteen year old trained by Hiroshi Nagakubo & egrave; finally managed to find the consistency of performance that & egrave; always lacked in the past managed to establish itself in a stage of the Grand Prix at the second attempt.
Hongo, reigning national junior champion, got the best score in the free program and technical evaluation & more ugrave; High in the sum of the components of the program improving itself on this side more than four points in the past. Solid on steps and elements of top, well he completed two double axel and four triple jumps, which for & ograve; plus a triple lutz taken from a wire outside and not two jumps under rotated. & nbsp; Go to & ograve; as noted in the course of the Rostelecom Cup teenager Nagoya has improved all the records of the race making that leap in quality & agrave; who has been waiting for.
Pogorilaya favored Eve, he paid the unusual difficulties & agrave; on the triple lutz, historically the dish of the house, dirtying landings in both segments of the competition. Actually & agrave ;, compared to previous releases, the sixteen year old Moscow & egrave; appeared quite tense and nervous, and overall, it & egrave; able to better express its undisputed quality & agrave; Skating paying the duty imposed on the components of the program. In this regard, & egrave; likely that the young student of Anna Tsareva not been able to handle the pressure generated by riservatele much attention in the media, in fact, a novelty for her & agrave ;. There & ograve; Accordingly, closed the fourth podium in four races in the qualifying stages of the Grand Prix & nbsp; and & egrave; easily qualified for the final in Barcelona, ​​as was the case for compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva a few days ago.
The Canadian Alaine Chartrand, a leader after the short program, finished the Rostelecom Cup in third place, storing the first podium of his career in the circuit complete with a personal best improved by seven points. However, in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, the eighteen year old stationed in Ontario, revealed some problems too with landing jumps, often on the spot and often limit the rotation. L & rsquo; s impression aroused remains positive in terms of the programs presented have proved to be very ambitious, but the strings Chartrand.
After that, you & egrave; placed the American Mirai Nagasu, despite the usual problems on rotations of the jumps, & egrave; able to resist the return of the Korean So Youn Park, fifth as at Skate America, but, in principle, less bright.
It should be remarked also the sixth-place finish in the debuttate Japanese Miyabi Oba, author of the fifth free, but won the second technical feedback.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) (JPN) - Rika HONGO & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 178.00 (2 | 1) PB02) (RUS) - Anna Pogorilaya & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 173.43 (3 | 2) 03) (CAN) - Alaine Chartrand & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 172.00 (1 | 3) PB04) (USA) - Mirai NAGASU & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 165.88 (4 | 6) SB05) (KOR) - So Youn PARK & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 163.24 (7 | 4) 06) (JPN) - Miyabi Oba & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 154.57 (10 | 5) PB07) (RUS) - Mary STAVITSKAIA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 153.49 (6 | 8) PB08) (USA) - Ashley CAIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 150.90 (5 | 9) SB09) (USA) - Angela WANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 150.75 (9 | 7) 10) (RUS) - Mary Artemieva & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 144.72 (8 | 10) PB11) (CZE) - Eliska Březinova & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 134.04 (11 | 11) WD) (SWE) - Joshi Helgesson & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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