Figure skating - Skate America 2015
Flavio Valle
The thirty-fourth edition of Skate America, the opening stage of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating hosted by "UW & ndash; Milwaukee Panther Arena" in Milwaukee, you & egrave; opened with the short program reserved for couples of art. & nbsp;
Saturday 24 October 2015 7 minutes reading time
The average level of the competition & egrave; It revealed high, but we must not forget that on the eve seven couples presented themselves at the starting line with ambitions of the podium and with the 'goal to cross sixty share in the first segment of the race. Standings at hand have not been surprises and for the first time in the history of the seventh classified nell''occasione Russians Astakhova / Rogonov, reached 58.25 points. In the past, those who had occupied the seventh position at the end of the short porgram had never gone beyond 55.83.
The partial success & egrave; It was conquered by surprise by the Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, capable of taking the national record in Castelli / Shnapir (67.44 at the Olympic Games in Sochi). Students of Dalilah Sappenfield, took to the track on the song "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, were clearly the best of the lot on the technical revealing sublime quality & agrave; elements of torque. The triple twist and a triple flip launched, both of significant amplitude, represented the point pi & ugrave; top of the race, but should not underestimate the level four got sull''ostica spriale death outside back. The 'unique deburring covered the triple salchow in parallel, landed Knierim by placing a hand on the ice.
The expected Chinese Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, still all''inseguimento the first success in the circuit, had to settle for second place with a gap to the next point and a half. The trial of the leaders of Asian & egrave; was ennobled dall''esecuzione a triple flip anthology, you & egrave; separate for height and length. However, & egrave; Han arrived an unexpected error on change in direction of the spinning top pair, which determined no level. The rest of the elements, including a triple twist level four, & egrave; It was executed with quality & agrave; and refinement. Compared to the past, the Chinese couple also revealed greater speed & agrave; and & egrave; He seemed fully at ease on the choreography "designed" by Lori Nichol on the song "Spanish Romance".
Afterwards, at the end of two tests without the slightest smear they were placed Xuehan the Chinese Wang / Wang Lei and young Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, separated by only a tenth of a point and united dall''avere retouched their personal records.
The Russians Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Kilmov, favorites on the eve, they had to settle for fifth place affected by a triple twist closed with huge anxiety and a bad fall on the triple lutz launched. On the positive side, in addition to the usual speed & agrave; above average, it should be highlighted the 'execution of the triple toe loop in parallel. The vice-Olympic champions were, however, the best in the sum of the components of the program.
Americans Tarah Kayne / Daniel O''Shea and Russians Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov, despite the barbs launched on the jump, took in the detachment from the podium nell''ordine six points and tomorrow, respectively, starting from the sixth and seventh place, They could also groped a sort of non-trivial comeback.
SHORT PROGRAM RANKING
1) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim 69.69 (39.00 | 30.69) NR 2) CHN - Wenjing ON / Cong HAN 68.28 (35.76 | 32.52) 3) CHN - Xuehan WANG / WANG Lei 64.95 (37.62 | 27.33) PB 4) CAN - Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU 64.85 (36.16 | 28.69) PB & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 5) RUS - Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov 63.41 (31.29 | 33.12) - 1:00 6) USA - Tarah KAYNE / Daniel O SHEA 58.38 (31.01 | 27.37) 7) RUS - Kristina Astakhova / Alexei ROGONOV 58.25 (31.66 | 26.59) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 8) USA - Jessica PFUND / Joshua SANTILLAN 50.20 (27.42 | 22.78) PB
Legend
PB - personal best - personal best NR - National Record - national record
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