Figure skating - NHK TROPHY 2015
All & rsquo; dawn Friday & take Igrave ;, & agrave; off the thirty-sixth edition of the NHK Trophy, the last act of qualifying for the Grand Prix of Figure Skating.
Tuesday 24 November 2015 18 minutes reading time
The races will be held at the "Big Hat & rdquo; Nagano, the center located in & rsquo; homonym prefecture, gi & agrave; home of & rsquo; event on three occasions. The 'system, doato a capacity of over 10,000 seats, & egrave; state theater s & rsquo; last edition of the Japanese National Championships and has hosted the finals of hockey in the Olympic Games of 1988.
For the fourteenth time in history, the NHK Trophy will & agrave; the 'last act of qualifying for the Grand Prix.
AREA MEN
Defined the criteria for qualifying for the final, the Japanese will have to stop & agrave; determine the names of the last three athletes who will leave for Barcelona.
Strong local d & rsquo; honor obtained in previous appointments, Yuzuru Hanyu, Boyang Jin and Maxim Kovtun baster & agrave; a fifth position to attend the practice, provided that the US Grand Hochstein not come second or Russian Konstantin Menshov first. & Nbsp; The underdogs are up to twenty Japanese Hanyu, who at Skate Canada threw away victory by a & rsquo; & agrave naivete; in the short program. The Olympic champion, won the NHK Trophy in 2012, & egrave; announced crescendo of form and, unlike what happened in the past season, the preparation is & egrave; ran smoothly whatsoever.
The twenty year old Russian Kovtun, author of a fall with the ups and downs, we will try & agrave; confirm the flattering trend held in the qualifying stages of the Grand Prix in which he always collected placings in the top two. The eighteen year old Chinese Boyang Jin skater pi & ugrave; end of story, will & agrave; He called to repeat the levels of the Cup of China with curiosity & agrave; to ascertain whether immediately decider & agrave; to present a free five and five triples or quadruples if opter & agrave; for the version with conservative & ldquo; only & rdquo; four quad and two triple axel as a side dish.
For the first time in history, will & agrave; You can attend a short program where three athletes take to the track with the & rsquo; s going to perform two quadruple jumps as in Nagano, plus Kovtun and Jin will & agrave; the game also the thirty-two Russian Konstantin Menshov, the hunt for the coveted first podium in the circuit after winning six placings between the fourth and fifth position.
The average level of the stage promises very high, considering that the role of outsiders will also present the Czech Michal Brezina twenty-five and twenty-four Japanese Takahito Mura, both able to win stages in the circuit of the past and looking for redemption after a first part of the season subdued.
North America will & agrave; represented by three ambitious athletes all veterans of the Cup of China in early November. & nbsp; There will be twenty-five Canadian Elladj Balde, big sweep in the Nebelhorn Trophy in late September, but not able to reconfirm in the stage of the Grand Prix, as well as & eacute; Americans Richard Dornbush and Grant Hochstein, Quest & rsquo; last hypothetically still in the running for the & rsquo; access in the final after a fourth place in surprise in Beijing.
The field of participants will & agrave; Closed twenty-Japanese Keiji Tanaka, from the twenty-six and twenty-French Chafik Besseghier Australian Brendan Kerry, training partner of selected Dornbush & Outdoors; last minute to replace the & rsquo; injured Jason Brown.
Unless policy changes, all registered athletes will race to the stage with the & rsquo; aim to do at least a quadruple jump in each segment of the race.
FEMALE FIELD
Which highlight the stage & egrave; announced the challenge between the long-time veteran of Mao Asada, twenty-five Japanese & nbsp; winner of the Cup of China, and Ashley Wagner, twenty-four US ruler of Skate Canada. & Nbsp; In case of victory & rsquo; an, & Outdoors; other baster & agrave; a fifth to enter the finals, but the qualification is now a formality & agrave ;.
The seventeen year old Japanese Satoko Miyahara, third at Skate Canada, and the same age as Russian Anna Pogorilaya, fourth in the Cup of China, will try to enter the battle for victory, which would allow them to snatch the ticket to Barcelona. In key to the final, the vice-world champion could be safe even with the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium, which is not always preceded by Pogorilaya, while the Russian will have & agrave; get at least a second position, as long as the race is not won by Miyahara.
Filed withdrawal of French Meite, the other seven participants who pi & ugrave; those who are not in possession of the technical means to try to dream. The Canadian twenties Kaetlyn Osmond, forget the tragic stage of the house, prover & agrave; back on track cos & Igrave; as the twenty-five Russian Alena Leonova, last year on the podium in the NHK Trophy. The nineteen year old American Courtney Hicks, sixth in the Cup of China, partir & agrave; to Japan with the & rsquo; s goal of being able to compete in a free program & Outdoors; height of the short, forgetting the first two outings of the season in which no & egrave; He never managed to reconfirm distance of twenty-four hours.
They will then present the eighteen year old Japanese Mariko Kihara, historical training partner of Miyahara, the eighteen year-old Chinese Li Zijun, appeared far from the best stage in the condition of the house, the twenty-two American of Japanese descent Mirai Nagasu, winner of the recent Ice Challenge in Graz, and Russian Maria Artemieva called to redemption after a disappointing Merano Cup ended in tears.
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
In absentia of Olympic champions Volosozhar / Trankov, the defending world title Duhamel / Radford seem & nbsp; It has smoothed the way towards a fifth successive victory in the circuit. Moreover, the Canadian couple, dominating the stage house, & egrave; unbeaten in the last eight segments race played in the Grand Prix and, as happened for the countrymen Weaver / Poje in the Rostelecom Cup, prover & agrave; to rise in double figures.
The main alternative & egrave; represented by the Chinese Yu Xiaoyu / Yang Jin, fresh from brilliant third place finish in Beijing. Charts in hand, the junior world champions will gain the right to take part in the second consecutive final filing a place d & rsquo; honor, while a lower placing the situation could get complicated.
Even Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim and the French Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres be played on first taking up the end of his career with good credentials to reach the finish line, but if on the one hand the couple transalpine baster & agrave; a fourth, from & rsquo; the other place to the foot of the podium will & agrave; sufficient to membership in stars and stripes only if you put behind James / Cipres or Yu / Jin not Piazzino in the first two positions. Obviously, the different starting position & egrave; daughter of the emergency regulation issued Monday & Igrave; by the international federation. In any case, both the ones that others have shown in earlier appearances to be much on the ball, why not be excluded a priori the possibility & agrave; that four couples in Japan can reach the final.
The main dangers to the pretenders to the prize trip to Barcelona are represented by the Canadian Lubov Iliuschechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, couple with the technical means to break the barrier of one hundred and eighty points, and the Russians Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat, fresh from success in the fourth stage of the Russian Cup.
A step below, arise novices US Jessica Calalang / Zack and Sidhu
The British Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji.
DANCE
Absent the world champions Papadakis / CIZERON, the underdogs are up to the Americans Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, who will go hunting the second successful career in the circuit. Moreover, the & rsquo; & egrave only statement; been conquered just in Japan back in 2011. With a place d & rsquo; honor, students Marina Zoueva, convincing second at Skate Canada would have the assurance of & rsquo; access to the final, but, according to scores and combinations, it should be enough even a third position.
The main danger & egrave; represented by compatriots Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue, which, however, thanks to the result of Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard, baster & agrave; fourth place for the match in Barcelona. & Nbsp; Placement aside, expect confirmation from a couple suspect Performing & rsquo; last jump of quality & agrave ;.
American couples have to face two associations Russians both in the running for the final. In particular, the regulation issued yesterday from & rsquo; ISU could give a big hand to Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, who, with a second place & nbsp; in Japan at least 62.02 points in the short-dance, would mathematically qualified excluding countrymen Sinitsina / Katsalapov, overly penalized by the new criteria to manage the so-called tie-breaking. Even more & ugrave; young Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin will need a second, but in this case will take at least 64.63 points in the short-dance (in this case the race is made on Canadian Gilles / Poirier for seventh place might be available) .
The fifth force in the field & egrave; represented by the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, able to fit comfortably in the fight for the podium, but obliged to win to reach the final.
L & rsquo; & egrave guest list; completed by the Japanese couples Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, making its debut in an international competition, and Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion as well as & eacute; by Americans Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, fifth in the stage of home and called at & rsquo; last minute to replace the Canadians Paul / Islam.
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