Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2014
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The thirty-fifth edition of the NHK Trophy, for the & rsquo; at last stage of qualification of the Grand Prix, you & egrave; ended with the free dance, segment race characterized by twists repeat ended with a verdict surprise regarding the qualification to the final circuit.
Sunday 30 November 2014 9 minutes reading time
Overall, the audience of the & ldquo; Namihaya Dome & rdquo; Kadoma has not had the good fortune to attend a trial by the high technical content, but the tension, very palpable for several couples, has made the competition more & ugrave; exciting than usual.
The success, the discount from the prediction of the eve, & egrave; went to Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, who, after being imposed with margin in the short-dance, were repeated without any heartache in the free dance. During the race, however, & egrave; revealed a huge gap over the competition, evidenced not only by almost seventeen point lead over runners-up, but, in particular, dall''assoluta mastery of their own means.
According successful career in the circuit in part, the performance of the vice-world champions, especially in the free dance, not & egrave; was like the rivals for victory in the final of the Grand Prix. In the latest releases seasonal, in fact, both the US Chock / Bates that young French Papadakis / CIZERON have proved altogether higher, supported by greater solidity & agrave; technique. In particular, in the segment of the race today, Weaver / Poje have left on the plate three points due to a shift to the second vacuum Poje twizzle. For the rest, the students of Pasquale Camerlengo proved flawless on the lift and were authors of a spectacular execution of the sequence of steps in circle
After the short-dance all have been foreseen that the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland could easily close the competition instead d & rsquo; honor gaining a qualification to the final that seemed acquired. Moreover, l & rsquo; trend of free dance was a further element in their favor because of a mistake and l & rsquo; other scores achieved by opponents appeared well within, without the need & agrave; to pull off the performance of life. Sar & agrave; been tension for a program or decisive sar & agrave; was an unlucky day, but students of Evgeni Platov have staged a harakiri unprecedented in the recent past. Basically, after starting with a bang, characterized by a spectacular lifting cornering and a fine circle in pairs, you & egrave; suddenly turned off the light and everything that could seem trivial & egrave; suddenly become complicated. Uncertainty after uncertainty, the coup de grace & egrave; revealed a twofold fall of Nicholas Buckland before facing the midline, clearly not done.
In second position, you are cos & Igrave; placed the punctual Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin, for the first time on the podium in a stage of Grand Prix. The students of Alexander Zhulin, cos & Igrave; as occurred in the short-dance have, clocked the TES basic pi & ugrave; top of the race skating without noticeable smearing the tune of & ldquo; Sarabande & rdquo;
In third place were placed Americans Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, whose only two races were enough to store the first podium of his career in the circuit. The junior world champions in charge preceded by a wide margin the Germans Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi, recovered strongly from sixth place in the short-dance, but at the foot of the podium in a stage of Grand Prix for the fourth time.
The astonished British Coomes / Buckland rushed in fifth position and put himself behind the Japanese Cathy Reed / Chris Reed, the Russians Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin and debutantes Japanese Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion.
The real disappointment of the race were in effect Sinitsina / Zhiganshin appeared out of sync on twizzles, often in time with the music, and overall difficulty in & agrave; on most of the items presented. The free dance is & egrave; proved to be a real ordeal to the point that, after the disastrous fall in pairs on the straight line lift, every lifting & egrave; become an insurmountable obstacle to overcome. On balance, despite the sound of trumpets and drum rolls for the birth in the spring of the new association, the budget end of the first Grand Prix of cariera you & egrave; proved disastrous for students of Marina Zoueva, the actual breakdown of this first part of the season.
The couples dance qualified for the final in Barcelona are:
Chock / Bates (USA) Weaver / Poje (CAN) Papadakis / CIZERON (FRA) Shibutani / Shibutani (USA) Gilles / Poirier (CAN) Ilinykh / Zhiganshin (RUS)
The reserves will Monko / Khaliavin (RUS), Hubbell / Donohue (USA), Coomes / Buckland (GBR)
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CAN) - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 169.42 (1 | 1) & nbsp; (Video) 2) (RUS) - Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 152.54 (3 | 2) SB (video) 3) (USA) - Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 146.41 (4 | 3) SB & nbsp; (Video) 4) (GER) - Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 138.41 (6 | 4) & nbsp; (Video) 5) (GBR) - Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 137.88 (2 | 6) & nbsp; (Video) 6) (JPN) - Cathy REED / Chris REED & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 130.88 (7 | 5) SB & nbsp; (Video) 7) (RUS) - Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 122.31 (5 | 8) & nbsp; (Video) 8) (JPN) - & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; Emi HIRAI / Marien DE LA ASUNCION & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 112.04 (8 | 7) PB & nbsp; (Video)
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