Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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The first day of Skate America, the opening stage of the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, we & egrave; ended with the men's short program.
Saturday 25 October 2014 11 minutes reading time
The & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates, a town located in & rsquo; Greater Chicago & egrave; was the scene of & rsquo; s solo Japanese Tatsuki Machida, which put a serious claim on the second consecutive victory in the great classic stars and stripes.
The twenty-four vice-world champion, was on track to the tune of & ldquo; Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra & rdquo; Nigel Hess has literally crushed the competition beyond the & rsquo; s demanding threshold of ninety points for the third time in the last six races of the first level played.
To confirm the findings in the course of the training sessions, Machida showed absolute mastery of jumps & more ugrave; challenging, running in the opening of the music a combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, followed by a triple axel. In any case, as evidenced by the degree of implementation, each element presented & egrave; was executed beautifully. Compared to the past, you & egrave; also noted the & rsquo; s going to enrich the program of further steps of transition in such a way as to leave no stone unturned in & rsquo; s ambitious purpose of defeating compatriot Hanyu. However, to want to find hair in & rsquo; s egg, the carrying out of the second half & agrave; music the only triple lutz remains a considerable burden to be paid in respect of & rsquo; s designated opponent.
Machida, as expected, has created a vacuum, and the technical score on each item of the program components, proving at the time skater-class higher than their opponents today.
The place d & rsquo; s honor, with an abysmal gap from the head, & egrave; was deservedly won by & rsquo; eternal Jeremy Abbott. The US veteran, not far from thirty springs, reversed the strategy of the race last season giving up the & ldquo; stuttering & rdquo; quadruple toe loop to focus on cleaning program and enhance the innate artistic talent. The choice has so far paid dividends, but the & rsquo; impression & egrave; that the road to try to excel remains one abandoned. There & ograve; Accordingly, the & rsquo; student Yuka Sato has performed the best combination triple flip / triple toe loop and a triple lutz preceded by the step, leaving the pot some point due to a landing with a walk too much on the triple axel, presented in the second half & agrave ; of music. The remainder of the twenty-nine stationed in Bloomfield Hills & egrave; disinto for the & rsquo; elegance on the ice playing the best notes of & ldquo; Lay Me Down & rdquo ;.
Abbott preceded compatriot Jason Brown, by far the best of the lot on the elements of spinning top. L & rsquo; & student of increasingly ugrave; listed Kori Ade, coach emerging landscape of North America, has for & ograve; duty paid by way of a bad fall on a triple axel, the rotation ugrave & much more; suspect that, despite being generously deemed complete.
In the fourth place, it & egrave; certificate Kazakh Denis Ten, masterful in & rsquo; s interpretation of & ldquo; Caruso & rdquo; Lucio Dalla, but suffers from a fall on the quadruple toe loop, however, completed, and from & rsquo; step-out landing the triple axel.
After that, you & egrave; Adian Pitkeev placed the sixteen year old Russian, who, though with the & rsquo; s help of a step-out, landed the first quadruple toe loop in the race of his career. The sixteen year old student of Ethers Tutberidze had the better of compatriot Artur Gachinski found fallen on the attempted quadruple toe loop, but appeared much on the ball all the rest, and on contemporary Canadian Nam Nguyen, today & egrave; missed the & rsquo; s inclusion in the program of a quadruple jump to fly. In any event, the debut in the Grand Prix world champion junior, so & igrave; such as Pitkeev, & egrave; was convincing, complete with a personal best to witness the potential of the two teen-agers emerging.
The French Chafik Besseghier, able to land in some way a combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop and a triple axel, you & egrave; had to be satisfied of the & rsquo; s eighth coin in front of the Philippine progressed Michael Christina Martinez, author of the new national record and only skater in the competition along with Abbott for getting the most level & ugrave; the upper hand on the sequence of steps.
On balance, it should be noted as the fight for the podium is wide open as between the second and the ninth is the difference nell''ordine eight lengths.
Pi & ugrave; disconnected all the other regulated by the American Douglas Razzano.
The program is free disputer & agrave; during the night.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) (JPN) Tatsuki MACHIDA93,39 (49,65 | 43,74) SB
02) (USA) Jeremy Abbott & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 81.82 (40.30 | 41.52) SB
03) (USA) Jason BROWN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 79.75 (39.94 | 40.81) -1.00
04) (KAZ) Denis TEN77,18 (37.90 | 40.28) - 1:00 SB
05) (RUS) Adian PITKEEV76.13 (43.38 | 32.75) PB
06) (RUS) Artur GACHINSKI75.71 (41.73 | 35.98) -2.00 SB & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
07) (CAN) Nam Nguyen & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 73.71 (39.71 | 34.00) PB
08) (FRA) Chafik BESSEGHIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 73.57 (39.36 | 34.21) SB
09) Michael Christian MARTINEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 72.81 (38.38 | 35.43) NR
10) (USA) Douglas RAZZANO66.23 (36.91 | 31.32) -2.00 PB & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
11) (ISR) Alexei BYCHENKO64.54 (33.04 | 31.50) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
12) (BEL) Jorik HENDRICKX & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 55.99 (26.42 | 31.57) SB
Legend: SB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / personal best NR & ndash; National record / national record & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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