Figure skating - Skate Canada 2013
On Friday evening, kick off the fortieth edition of Skate Canada, the second act of this season's Grand Prix figure skating.
Wednesday 23 October 2013 14 minutes reading time
The races will be held at the "Harbour Station" of Saint John, a town of seventy thousand souls situtata in New Brunswick, the seat back in 1995 the first stage of the circuit in Canadian territory. Since then, Skate Canada was held in Saint John on one other occasion (1999).
However, just a few days ago the "Harbour Station", arena seating 6,200, celebrated the first twenty years of life.
As in the case of nineteen seventeen times, Skate Canada will be the second stage of the Grand Prix.
DANCE
In the dance competition, stands out the presence of Olympic champions Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir, who won the last two editions of Skate Canada. Begin, therefore, in the run home to victory in the Grand Prix Final, the only trophy missing in the rich bulletin board of the pair of London. Students of Marina Zueva go hunting for the fifth statement in the career stage of the house, built by the company so far only Bourne / Kraatz, however, able to impose itself on six occasions, five of them consecutive. The attention of addeti the work will be mainly focused on the levels that will be assigned to the various elements in that, in the victorious appearance in Finland Trophy, sequences of short-finn-step dance and some lifting of the free dance were a problem.
The main opponents of the Vice-World Champions will be the countrymen Kaetlyn Weaver / Poje Andew, coming off a season in fits and starts because of a serious injury suffered last autumn by Kaetlyn Weaver. The pair coached by Pasquale Camerlengo, already second in the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in mid-September, it seems highly suspect to obtain the'' eighth podium of his career in qualifying for the Grand Prix, although it must be remembered that never arrived victories.
The fight for the third position should involve the Americans Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue, fourth at Skate America, the emerging Canadian Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, not far from success in the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, and the Russians Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko, to debut seasonal. However, do not start battutti even the Russians Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, holders of the junior world title, the Germans Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi, the top ten in the last World Championships, and the Blues Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri, convincing seconds in the recent Ondrej Nepela Trophy. Students of Barbara Fusar Poli, winners of proof national dance held last weekend in Assam, will take part in the second stage of the Grand Prix of his career with the aim of undermining'' pairs title holders on paper, but not unattainable.
The technical rate of the competition is announced, in any case, because high fall on the ice eight associations with the cards in order to point to the first ten / fifteen locations and was in a world championship.
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
Spotlight on hosts Megan Duhamel / Eric Radford, called to respond immediately to Moore-Towers/Moscovitich, who, a few days ago, you are powerfully seized the European record. Students of Richard Gauthier, on the podium of the last world championships, are deemed for all purposes the undisputed favorite to win the victory that, in the field of artistic couples, missing in Canada for six years. '' For the occasion, the association technically the most extreme of the circuit is expected to confirm the progress on art emerged in the past season. To leave no stone unturned, the Canadian national champions have been created "in house" music for the short program, specially composed by Eric Radford.
The run-up to the podium, in absentia of the Russians Kavaguti / Smirnov forced to surrender because of a serious injury, he sees as the main eligible candidates Italians Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek, veterans from fifth place in Skate America, and the Chinese Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, three times world champion junior last season hampered by repeated injuries Wenjing Sui and especially by his physical growth.
The camp participants is completed by the Germans Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave, on the podium in the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, by Canadian couples Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers, called to redemption after two seasons opaque, and Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro, eighth at Skate America, and, finally, from novices U.S. couples Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker, fifth in the Nebelhorn Trophy, and Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, the holders of the junior title in the shade rather in'' Ondrej Nepela Trophy in early October.
On balance, the average level of competition appears to be lower than at Skate America.
FEMALE Sector
The test will be without two female protagonists of the most anticipated. In fact, before Finland's Kiira Korpi and then the Korean Yu-Na Kim, defending champion, world and Olympic, were forced to forfeit early because of injury of different severity. As if that were not enough, has come in the last days even the renunciation of Russian Alena Leonova.
The seventeen year old Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond surprise winner of the last edition, will have to defend themselves from attack'' of fifteen Russian Julia Lipnitiskaya and ventotettenne Japanese Akiko Suzuki, respectively athlete'' s younger and the older generation in the race. Moreover, the two favorites to win, no worries have qualified for the'' Final Act of last year, have already been addressed in Finland Trophy in early October, won quite clearly from less sailed. As regards, however, Osmond, there are doubts about the current state of the form'' as the skater stationed in Alberta has faced in recent times a boring injury to his leg.
The podium, if not something more,'' is the goal of the three American teenager Courtney Hicks, seventeen year old Californian winner of the recent U.S. Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City, Gracie Gold, eighteen of'' Illinois moved about a month to court of Frank Carroll, and Christina Gao, nineteen-year resident in Boston recovering from an unconvincing podium in'' Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava. '' In the environment, of course, c'' is great curiosity to debut in Carroll version of Gold, which is considered one of the great hopes of skating stars stripes.
The framework of members, is completed by the Canadian Amelie Lacoste and Veronik Mallet, at the foot of the podium in the Nebelhorn Trophy, and from'' Ukrainian Natalia Popova, twenty year old student of Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko.
FIELD MEN
The highlight of the fortieth edition of Skate Canada is the challenge of the twenty-two Patrick Chan of Toronto, three times world champion, and the eighteen year old Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, who moved now in a permanent right in the city'' s Ontario.
Both have decided to reconfirm the short end of the last season, but if on the one hand the'' student of Brian Orser has already successfully tested its programs in Finland Trophy,'' from the other Canadian, winner of three editions of the stage home Grand Prix, will debut in Saint John.
The third wheel is named after Nobunari Oda, Japanese veteran appeared in the form of dazzling conditions during the Nebelhorn Trophy in late September, during which he has extensively remodeled the personal record.
The podium is the stated goal'' for the twenty-eight American Jeremy Abbott, third in the recent Japan Open, for twenty-three Czech Michal Brezina, however, appeared far from his best form in'' event played in Saitama, and for twenty-two Japanese Takahito Walls, defeated by Czech Tomas Verner in'' Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava, but in'' opportunity appeared decidedly on the workpiece.
Think big even the ambitious American Ross Miner, twenty-two stationed in Boston for a long time struggling with some heartache too with the quadruple Salchow, and Joshua Farris, eighteen year old junior world champion title holder back from a'' appearance without acute in the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic.
The field is completed by the registered Canadian Andrei Rogozine, twenty junior world champion in 2011, and Elladj Balde, twenty-two coached by Yuka Sato and Jason Dungjen fourth place for him in a matte Lombardy Trophy.
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