Figure skating - Lexus Cup of China 2013
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The second day of Cup of China, arrived'' s eleventh edition, opened its doors in the early morning with Italian free dance.
Saturday 2 November 2013 8 minutes reading time
Filed a short-dance in which the seven couples in the race are expressed well below their potential, the audience of the "Capital Indoor Stadium" Beijing has been able to attend a segment of the race from the technical rate much higher.
Thanks to the clear success in the free dance, the French veteran Nathalie Pechalat / Fabien Bourzat were able to overturn the result of the first segment of competition prevailing in the'' expected confrontation with the Russians Ekaterina Bobrova / Soloviev Dmtri. New students of Igor Shpilpand have so his fifth career victory in the Grand Prix, three of which came just in China. However, previously, the only U.S. Belbin / August were able to establish themselves on three occasions in the Asian leg.
In today's program, Pechalat / Bourzat unlined have a decidedly solid performance from a technical standpoint obtaining the maximum level available on twizzles and lift, all characterized by a certain refinement during both inlet and outlet, and remaining at a competitive level three on the sequence of steps in pairs, in this case the diagonal and circle. Also, once again leapfrogged the rivals in all entries of the program components, with the exception of skating skills.
Superficially, one could argue that a more modern free dance has had the best compared to a more classical dance style, but in reality, before evaluating the new program Bobrova / Soloviev, you will need to wait a little'' of time because of the revolution made in the'' last month the project originally pianficato. It goes without saying that the evidence of the winners appeared smoother and better built on the various stages of transition.
The Russian pair, author of the third TES (tecnical element score) in the free dance should mainly regret the two points of technical base left by the wayside because of the levels of lift, especially the first rotational not gone beyond level two. In any case, as regards the degree of realization, the European champions have paid duty on most of the elements with respect to the French.
The third place went to the Americans Madison Chock / Evan Bates, the first podium of his career in the circuit and especially appeared more comfortable than the babbling short-dance twenty-four hours ago. The pair coached as well as choreographed by Igor Shpilband has managed to make a draw in terms of levels of technical score and then basic training with fellow Pechalat / Bourzat proposing a serious candidate to reconfirm the'' eighth strength in the international arena. The threat comes from clearly connazionli Shibutani / Shibutani and Hubbell / Donohue, author of scores totaling more than in the previous stages.
At the foot of the podium are positioned franncesi school Fusar Poli Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones, who, by virtue of best performance of his career on the technical segment of the race, they passed by the U.S. rookies Alexandra Aldrdige / Daniel Eaton, however, more , and discrete on Indian motifs.
Finally, the challenge between pairs of a succession of different generations has dominated comeback in the older Yu / Wang, who, thanks to a sixth-place finish today, have equaled their best result ever in the circuit. The younger Zhang / Wu had to settle, as forecast, the seventh and last position. It should be remembered that the Chinese couple more listed Huang / Zheng was forced to retire shortly before the short-dance yesterday.
In optics qualification for the final, in the light of the participants to the remaining appointments,'' the impression is that Davis / White (USA), Virtue / Moir (CAN), Pechalat / Bourzat (FRA), Weaver / Poje (CAN) and Bobrova / Soloviev (RUS) have also more than a foot in Fukuoka. For the remaining spot, remain in runoff Cappellini / Lanotte (ITA) and Ilinykh / Katsalapov (RUS), who will face off in the stage of next week. However, if the pair closes the blue'' NHK Trophy in Tokyo in second place, will qualify automatically for the final act''.
CLASSIFICATION OF CHINA CUP
1) (FRA) Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT165.68 (2 | 1)
2) (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri SOLOVEV163, 42 (1 | 2)
3) (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES150, 53 (3 | 3) 4) (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES 134.12 (5 | 4) 5) (USA) Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON132, 06 (4 | 5) 6) (CHN) Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG 106.18 (7 | 6) 7) (CHN) Zhang Yiyi / Nan WU104.98 (6 | 7)
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