Figure Skating - Skate Canada 2014
Skate Canada
The opening day of Skate Canada, the second leg of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, we & egrave; opened with the men's short program.
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The section of the race was dominated by the Spaniard Javier Fernandez, not far from gone & rsquo; s get a standing ovation from the audience of the & ldquo; Prospera Place & rdquo; Kelowna.
The holder of the European title clear favorite on Christmas Eve, for the first time in the race presented the new short program, choreographed to the tune of Ram Jam's Black Betty by David Wilson in collaboration with Jeffrey Buttle. L & rsquo; s impression aroused & egrave; was more & ugrave; positive because that & eacute; l & rsquo; student Brian Orser & egrave; been able to stay on the first note to the & rsquo; s last second, despite the theme song did not grant any pause. Fernandez has scored more & ugrave evaluation; high in each item of the components of the program, but accomplices executed a double axel instead of & eacute; triple and a few details to be recorded on the elements of spinning top, not & egrave; gone beyond the fourth technical score. In particular, the & rsquo; s opening words of the trial of twenty-three Madrid & egrave; was overwhelming with a quadruple salchow preceded by the step performed extremely well and with a & rsquo; s excellent combination triple lutz / triple toe loop.
L & rsquo; ambitious Japanese Takahito Mura, detached almost four lengths behind the leader, won the sprint for second place distinguished by the quality & agrave; the triple axel, by far the best of the day. However, the twenty-three son d & rsquo; art has serious points left on the plate due to an unusual landing with step-out at the end of combination triple lutz / triple toe loop and performing a quadruple toe loop is not preceded by the past. In, fact & agrave ;, the eve of going four times toelop would have to open the combination, why not & egrave; was preceded by the required step.
Third place & egrave; went to the Russian Konstantin Menshov convincing, able to improve the sound of the Quad personal best. The thirty-one in St. Petersburg performed a spectacular combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, followed by a quadruple salchow. When the road seemed downhill & egrave; to come & ograve; an inadvertent mistake on the triple axel, double and completed with the & rsquo; s support of one hand on the ground, that & egrave; cost the first provisional & Outdoors, student Evgeni Rukavitsin.
Menshov has preceded the invention US Stephene Carriere, able to go for the first time in his career over the threshold of the eighty points. The twenty-five native of Massachusetts, having landed on two feet and a quadruple toe loop after botched angel on top gear foot, & nbsp; & Egrave; state or almost as & eacute; perfect the rest of the elements by performing a triple axel and convincing, in the second half & agrave; music, a combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, as well as spins and steps that have earned the highest level available.
After that, you & egrave; placed an & ldquo; stuttering & rdquo; Max Aaron, on the one hand penalized by a musical selection (Footloose Kenny Loggins), it's suitable to its characteristics and by & rsquo; & rsquo from another, landing with his hands in the land of the triple axel and spins rather approximate. The most & ugrave; expected among athletes Stars and Stripes had the better of the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka, away from the glories of the past and betrayed both by & rsquo; landing on two feet than quadruple toe loop that the triple toe loop combination rightly downgraded to a double, the Czech Michal Brezina fallen into ruin on the quadruple salchow and penalized by & rsquo; s opening the combination with a double flip instead of & eacute; three times, and the Frenchman Florent Amodio, failed on the lutz, as a last jump completed only twice, and then worthless under the new regulation.
Canadians Andrei Rogozine and Liam Firus ended in ninth and tenth place respectively with scores for both satisfactory, while the quoted US Adam Rippon, despite the best sequence of steps of the race, he finished ruefully least because of a fall on the triple axel and for not having performed the combination.
On the sidelines must be stressed as the yardstick of the technical panel has been rather lax to the point that clearly under-rotated jumps were considered completed with clear benefit to the scores of athletes.
In any case, the fact that between the second and eighth in the standings there are just over & ugrave; ten points of difference does s & igrave; the free program lends itself to comebacks from a distance, so & igrave; as was done for the young Canadian Nam Nguyen at Skate America.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) (ESP) - Javier Fernandez (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 86.36 (43.18 | 43.18) SB
02) (JPJ) - Takahito Mura (video) 82.57 (44.21 | 38.36) SB
03) (RUS) - Konstantin Menshov (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 81.70 (44.64 | 37.06) PB
04) (USA) - Stephen CARRIERE (video) 80.33 (44.58 | 35.75) PB
05) (USA) - Max AARON (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 76.50 (40.58 | 35.92) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
06) (JPN) - Takahiko Kozuka (video) 75.85 (38.24 | 37.61) SB
07) (CZE) - Michal BREZINA (video) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 73.29 (36.51 | 37.78) - 1:00
08) (FRA) - Florent Amodio (video) 72.14 (34.21 | 37.93) SB
09) (CAN) - Andrei ROGOZINE (video) 70.95 (39.00 | 31.95) SB
10) (CAN) - Liam Firus (video) 64.94 (33.76 | 32.18) - 1:00 PB
11) (USA) - Adam RIPPON62.83 (27.73 | 36.10) - 1.00 (video)
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / personal best
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