Figure skating - Cup of China 2015
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The opening day of the Cup of China, the third leg of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, you & egrave; It ended with a bang as the short program reserved for couples of art expressed a technical rate beyond pi & ugrave; optimistic expectations of the vigil.
Friday 6 November 2015 7 minutes reading time
In the great joy of the large audience of "Capital Indoor Stadium" in Beijing, the darlings of home Wenjing Sui / Cong Han won partial success, but, overall, & egrave; It was possible to attend four programs in equal measure stun beauty. In the past, the pair fourth ranked in any stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix had never gone beyond the sixty-five points, while in the race today was close to seventy lengths. Moreover, also the fifth in the ranking have not committed any snagging noteworthy.
The three Chinese pairs in the race broke the threshold of forty points on technical feedback, Once you've crossed over the season by just Russians Kavaguti / Smirnov at the success achieved in the Mordovian Ornament Saransk, competition circuit ISU Challenger Series. Just sailed Russian couple & egrave; was the 'only able to fit in stapotere Asia filing a second position with a couple of lengths of lagging behind the lead.
Sui / Han, veterans of the recent success at Skate America, were the first class of each item of the program components, optimizing the choreography devised by Lori Nichol on non-trivial notes "Spanish Romance". The vice-world champions have presented a triple flip launched anthology and were literally encyclopedic on the final sequence of steps. The 'unique deburring covered the triple toe loop in parallel, atterratto Sui with the' support of a hand on the ice, even for a few hundredths of a second.
The Russians Kavaguti / Smirnov were not to be outdone and, twist aside, filed the level pi & ugrave; high available on each element lecturing on complicated death spiral backward outside. In terms of points, the difference on the technical than the Chinese couples & egrave; matured because of un''esecuzione less brilliant than triple twist, historically not the strong point for students of Tamara Moskvina.
In third place with a gap of more than two points by Russian veterans stood junior world champions Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, for the first time in his career that can break through the significant threshold of seventy points. Young Asians have performed a triple Rittberger launched applauses, but above were the only ones to get the level four on the triple twist.
Xuehan Wang Lei and Wang are not for & ograve; were inferior and, after passing without worries the 'obstacle represented by the triple toe loop in parallel, performed impeccably each element couple doing drawn game with Kavaguti / Smirnov levels obtained.
Except Sui / Han, the first three couples classified presented the triple Rittberger launched while jumping in parallel & egrave; It was the triple toe loop for all.
Entrants Germans Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert, convincing fifths, have had the merit to stand up to most couples & ugrave; emblazoned magiore and international experience managing to complete all the items scheduled without worries, among which are triple twist, triple salchow launched and triple toe loop in parallel. Students of the spouses Wende have silenced the skeptics, mostly from our own, a little '' hastily had them labeled as ordinary pair pushed so far by the judges.
Next, they placed the Russians Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov, penalized by a trivial fall of Astakhova after completing the triple salchow in parallel and a loss of balance Rogonov on a transitional step.
The ranking & egrave; It was closed by Canadian couples Lubov Ilushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, who left on the plate at least five points because of a lifting group four irregular, and Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, authors of the new personal best.
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RANKING PROGRAM SHORT COUPLES
1) CHN - & nbsp; Wenjing ON / Cong HAN74.40 (40.00 | 34.40) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 2) RUS - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 72.45 (39.35 | 33.10) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 3) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN70.06 (40.14 | 29.92) PB & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 4) CHN - Xuehan WANG / She WANG69.36 (40.24 | 29.12) PB & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 5) GER - Mari VARTMANN / Ruben BLOMMAERT63.45 (35.76 | 27.69) PB6) RUS - Kristina Astakhova / Alexei ROGONOV59.17 (33.49 | 28.68) - 3,007) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH55.42 (27.20 | 29.22 ) - 1,008) CAN - Vanessa GRENIER / Maxime DESCHAMPS52.41 (27.07 | 25.34) PB
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