Figure skating - Skate America 2015
Flavio Valle
In the evening, you Alzer & agrave; the curtain on the twenty-first edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, who, like d & rsquo; habit, open his & agrave; its doors with Skate America.
Friday 23 October 2015 9 minutes reading time
Thursdays & Igrave; & Egrave; It was devoted to training, which provided interesting results showing a state of great shape for different protagonists announced.
In the women, the & rsquo; athlete that has most impressed & egrave; It was undoubtedly the Russian Evgenia Medvedeva. Almost sixteen Moscow has performed during the & ldquo; & rdquo run through; Program free combinations triple flip (with arm raised) / triple toe loop / triple toe loop and triple salchow / triple toe loop / triple toe loop, placed in the second half & agrave; of music. Assuming that in the race no athlete has ever run a combination with three triple jumps, as seen in training could have a meaning Whereas the program of lbero Medvedeva has two triple toe loop and two triple flip. To impress the judges with an effect, not & egrave; except that one of the two combinations triple / triple planned (triple flip / triple toe loop, triple salchow / triple toe loop) can be added a second triple toe loop. Clear that at that point, the second combination would be closed by a double toe loop.
As for the other, Julia Lipnitskaia & egrave; He appeared in advance on the Finlandia Trophy. L & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze performed more & ugrave; Sometimes the combination double axel / triple toe loop combination and also completed the triple flip / triple toe loop highlighting some problems in pi & ugrave; with the triple lutz. Japan's Satoko Miyahara & egrave; fall during the run through the short program on the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop and has run smoothly the rest. It must be said that all other attempts combination triple lutz / triple toe loop was completed successfully. However, the jumps of the vice-world champion have appeared less extensive ever among the athletes in the race. The sixteen year old American Karen Chen seems on the right track to recover the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, although some attempts have been triple lutz landed on two feet. The novelty & agrave; & Egrave; represented by the combination double axel / euler / triple salchow, which could be included in the free program. No problem for the fifteen-Kazakh Elizabet Turzynbaeva, at ease in the run through the free on the triple lutz and triple combinations salchow / double toe loop and double axel / triple toe loop. Good results also for Mariah Bell, able to complete the combination triple flip / triple toe loop and double axel / euler / triple salchow, but not always flawless on triple spotted. Compatriot Gracie Gold, however, always at the edge of the balustrade, has performed more & ugrave; Sometimes the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, but in the run through of the program free, except for the above combination, has messed on everything else. The Canadian Alaine Chartrand and the Slovak Nicole Rajicova have worked a lot on the triple lutz with excellent percentages of construction, combination triple lutz / triple toe loop including for the & rsquo; student of Brian Orser, while the Korean So Youn Park has highlighted some problems too on the elements Jump struggling to attack the triple toe loop combination and & ldquo; & rdquo rounding; pi & ugrave; Sometimes lutz and flip. At the end of the training session, & egrave; finally managed to perform a combination double axel / triple toe loop.
In the men, the skaters who stole more l & rsquo; eye were the Japanese Shoma Uno, or almost as & eacute; infallible as it tried, especially the Tripo axel preceded by moon and toeloon four times, and the Japanese Han Yan, can perform jumps with a & rsquo; breadth unmatched among athletes present. The American Max Aaron & egrave; It seemed as bright as on other occasions on the quadruple salchow, but has completed smoothly and several triple axel, cos & Igrave; as compatriots Jason Brown and Ross Miner, performed the & rsquo; entire free program. Brown has revealed some problems on quadruple toe loop and triple axel, cos & Igrave; as Miner on quadruple salchow and triple axel. Both looked distinctly more & ugrave; at home on triple lutz and triple flip. Kazakhstan's Denis Ten completed the quadruple toe loop with mixed success, but gave the & rsquo; impression of having a better condition than expected running smoothly different triples and a & rsquo; excellent second half of the run through the free program.
Between the pairs of artistic, finally, we have seen numerous attempts to quadruple salchow launched by the Chinese Sui / Han. In some cases, the & rsquo; & egrave landing; It was impeccable, in others on the spot, but the & rsquo; & egrave element; seemed acquired. US couples have been the only ones to try almost all the free program with light and shadow. Scimeca / Knierim, not always on time on jumps in parallel, performed the quadruple twist, while Kayne / O & rsquo; Shea out run through attempted quadruple salchow launched. The Russians Stolbova / Klimov have paid great attention to choreography and musical accents during run throguh performing then in training pi & ugrave; sometimes triple flip launched. C '' & egrave; It was also un''inopinata fall on death spiral. Positive notes for fellow Astakhova / Rogonov, at ease on the triple lutz launched and able to complete with good percentages triple salchow in parallel. Even Canadians Seguin / Bilodeau completed with continuity & agrave; jumps in parallel, especially the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop.
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