Figure skating - Skate America 2013
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The nineteenth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating has opened up in the night with the Italian men's short program in Skate America.
Saturday 19 October 2013 9 minutes reading time
From now on, on the ice of the "Joe Louis Arena" in Detroit, there have been fireworks'' artifice and the average level of the competition proved to be very high, especially considering the time of year''. Seven of the eight participants have attempted a quadruple jump and the score recorded by'' ranked eighth and final (69.81) was the highest ever in the history of Grand Prix (previous record 69.41 Skate Canada 2012 ).
L'' assoulto protagonist of the first segment was the Japanese Tatsuki Machida, author of a smudge proof, deservedly accompanied by the standing ovation from the audience of Motor City. The twenty-three of Osaka, also appeared in training the best of the lot, it is, however, entered by force in the narrow circle of atelti able to get more than 50 points since the technical short program includes seven items. Previously, the only ones who had been crowned the company'' Chan, Hanyu and Ten, who was absent at Skate America as injured.
L'' student of Anthony Liu, who skated a program choreographed by trusted Philipp Mills on the famous tune of "East of Eden", opened the "disco" with a sumptuous combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop and, thereafter, completed no worries the triple axel. In addition to the triple lutz preceded by the step, performed well in the second half of the disc, has also proposed spins of high quality, missing the four level only on the spinning top angel with change foot.
In second place, came the American Jason Brown, selected a couple of weeks ago to take the place of injured'' Evan Lysacek. The vice-world champion junior atelta youngest in the race,'' was the only one not groped four times, but it was flawless on every single element highlighting a quality and sophistication on the tops with rare equal in the field male. In particular, the dicannovenne California than in the past, failed to add to his technical background a solid triple axel, which allowed him to make a quantum leap. In addition, the fact that the program has been on componeti second only to the Japanese, speaks volumes about the potential of'' still diciottene California, today masterful on the song "The Question of U" by Prince.
The podium is completed by provissiorio regenerated American Adam Rippon, do not go far from complete a quadruple lutz at the beginning of the program and then bravo to save on the triple axel, its historical nemesis. The twenty-three student Rafael Arutyunyan appeared definitely grown on the jumps, to the point indulge in the luxury of proposing triple axel and triple combination with two in the second half of the disc. Among the other'', the choice of music this season, "Carmen Suite" by Bizet and Shchedrin, proved to be quite appropriate to its characteristics of excellent interpreter and has enhanced the best of his gestures.
Machida, in part, the rest of the Japanese team has expressed below potential
Takahiko Kozuka, last year's winner of Skate America, it had to settle for fourth place, thanks to the combination lost in the street. L'' student of Nobuo Sato, however, managed to land a quadruple toe loop while closing the element'' definitely tip.
L'' veteran Daisuke Takahashi is expected, however, had to settle for fifth coin, penalized by an absolutely negative on the jumps and pardoned by the panel that evaluated sottoruotato landed a quadruple toe loop on two feet and smell to be degraded. In line with the performance of the Japan Open, the Japanese most successful in history, at least in the men's field, he appeared unsure on each landing and just because of a triple lutz "closed on eggs" has performed a combination with double toe loop , leaving other heavy points on the plate. Convincing, however, the spinners, now all built to get to level four, despite the combined is stopped to three.
In light of the gaps were generally low and remains in contention for the podium the U.S. national champion Max Aaron, who fell on the quadruple Salchow early, however impeccable completed and then on the other elements of jump. Just due to the characteristics of the twenty-one high-flyer stationed in Colorado Springs, today the sixth, will play the best cards in the free, although, jumps aside, his skating proves a little'' poor by the standards of excellence.
The last two positions in the ranking are occupied by Swedish Majorov Alexander, author of the personal best in races of the first level, despite a disastrous fall on the quadruple toe loop, and Russian Artur Gachinski, who also fell on the quadruple toe loop and triple toe loop that follow on closed combination with a triple lutz. '' For the student of Alexei Mishin remain far the splendor of a couple of years ago.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) 91.18 [50.08 | 41.10] (JPN) Tatsuki MACHIDA (PB) 02) 83.78 [44.85 | 38.93] (USA) Jason BROWN (PB) 03) 80.26 [43, 23 | 37,03] (USA) Adam RIPPON (PB) 05) 77.09 [35.84 | 42.25] (JPN) Daisuke TAKAHASHI04) 77.75 [38.15 | 39.60] (JPN) Takahiko KOZUKA06) 75.91 [41.37 | 35.54] (USA) Max AARON 07) 74.97 [41.29 | 34.68] (SWE) Alexander Majorov (PB) 08) 69.81 [37.24 | 34,57] (RUS) Artur GACHINSKI
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