Figure Skating - Lexus Cup of China 2014
On the morning of Friday & igrave open his ;, & agrave; its doors to the twelfth edition of the Cup of China, for two seasons called "Lexus" for purely commercial reasons.
Tuesday 4 November 2014 18 minutes reading time
The races will be held at the & rsquo; Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai plant with a capacity of nearly 18,000 seats, which will be & agrave; theater in late March at the World Championships. Built in less than two years between 2008 and 2010, it hosted the 2012 World Cup short-track in 2011 and the World Championships in swimming, diving and water polo.
In the past, the Chinese metropolis & egrave; gi & agrave; was home to two stages of qualifying for the Grand Prix, and was preferred to Beijing in three of the last four seasons
The Cup of China & egrave; became part of the Grand Prix until 2003, taking the place of bofrost Cup stop in Germany where & egrave; always kept in Gelsenkirchen.
It should be noted that the 'event for the Asia & rsquo; s eleventh time in twelve occasions will & agrave; the third act of the circuit.
DANCE
The main interest of the race of dance & egrave; represented by the presence of the Italian couple made up of Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, the season debut on the international stage. The defending champions world, returning from rehearsals carried out in the national competition in Assago, will hunt the first successful career in the circuit after obtaining nine podiums with the beauty of the seven-seater d & rsquo; s honor.
As the leading alternative to the top athletes of the Italian movement intended for the US Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, second at Skate America is not without some controversy for the loss of leading by Chock / Bates, who won the race. In any case, historians students of Marina Zoueva, confirming the placement of Chicago, should acquire or almost as & eacute; certainty to participate to the final in Barcelona, ​​even if, for the confirmation mathematics, will have to wait at least a week.
By virtue & ugrave; the findings in & rsquo; s opening words of the season, the role of the third force in the field is up to the French Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron, rulers of & rsquo; s Autumn Classic Barrie, where they clearly preceded Canadians Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, students Pasquale Camerlengo, who will be presented in Shanghai with the dream of winning the first podium of his career in the circuit.
Of course, it can not & ograve; overshadow the debut of the Russian pair Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin, born in spring after the stormy separation of two of the three associations & more ugrave; Listed at home. On the sidelines, will & agrave; interesting to compare the short-dance among the students of Svetlana Alexeeva and Papadakis / Cizeron, couples, to better prepare the paso-doble, availed themselves of the advice of Antonio Najarro, a prominent figure of ballroom dancing, you know, between other things, to have collaborated in the original dance presented by the French Anissina / Peizerat when they graduated in 2002, Olympic champions in Salt Lake City.
The camp participants will & agrave; completed by Chinese couples Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu, Yiyi Zhang / Nan Wu and Yue Zhao / Xun Zheng, new pair rose from the ashes of the recent separation between Xintong Huang / Xun / Zheeng and Zhao Yue / Liu Chang.
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PAIR OF ART
The fight for victory is limited to Chinese couples Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, third at Skate America with a performance well below expectations, and Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, who won on every front possible in the junior level. With a success, Peng / Zhang would conquer the second consecutive final, while a second might overly complicate the situation leaving them at the mercy of the results of the next stages.
The role of third wheel should touch countrymen Xuehan Wang / Wang Lei, able to arouse & rsquo; s good impression in the Cup of China last season, the only international competition played in his career.
In essence, China will treat & agrave; a date with history as, in twenty years of Grand Prix, not & egrave; never happened that a couple of art & rsquo; only nation managed to monopolize the podium of a race.
As for the competition, & rsquo; & egrave impression; that exists in the pi & ugrave; absolute balance. The game will be the emerging Italian Nicole Della Monica / Matthew Guarise, returning from an encouraging success in the Coupe de Nice where he showed clear progress on various aspects of their skating. On the same floor are placed novices American Jessica Calalang / Zach Sidhu, one of the revelations of the & rsquo; s opening words of the season during which they touched all the personal records two stages of finishing on the podium Isu Challenger Series.
The group of couples to debut in the Grand Prix also includes Canadians Natasha Purich / Andre Wolfe, a partnership formed in the spring able to close in the fourth position l & rsquo; s Autumn Classic Barrie, Russians Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat, another pair of newly formed appeared an increase in the free program of the Coupe de Nice after an extremely difficult start to the season, and finally the young Russian Arina Cherniavskaia / Anthony Souza-Kordyeru, very shady in the first leg of the Cup of Russia, the only race that took part in the autumn.
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FIELD MEN
Spotlight on Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, recently became only the second skater in history to establish itself in the same season in the final of the Grand Prix, the Olympic Games and World Championships. Previously, the & rsquo; s enterprise had been crowned by the only Russian Alexei Yagudin, who & ograve; within six months, also imposed in the European Championships and two stages of qualifying for the Grand Prix. The nineteen year old Sendai, forced to desert the Finlandia Trophy in early October due to a slight back injury, effettuer & agrave; the seasonal debut just in Shanghai, where for the first time will be shown to the public the new competition programs choreographed by Jeffrey Buttle, confirmed by the short music by Chopin after the worldwide success of & ldquo; Parisienne Walkways & rdquo ;, and Shae-Lynn Bourne, you & egrave; occupied the new free to the tune of & ldquo; Phantom of & rsquo; Work & rdquo; Andrew Webber Llody.
L & rsquo; student Brian Orser will try & agrave; to extend the strisca of consecutive successes of Japan arrived, including the final, at an altitude of four (in the past only the Russian & egrave; could do better by winning six stages in a row in 2000 and eighteen between 1997 and 1999).
Will have to Hanyu & agrave; deal with the eighteen year old Chinese Han Yan, who won the home leg of last season, and with the & rsquo; s ambitious nineteen year old Russian Maxim Kovtun, who was forced to delay the debut season because of problems with shoes shoes. On the sidelines, it should be noted that the main contenders for the top three positions, as well as being veterans of the end of the & rsquo; last year, will play the first competitive race season just in Shanghai. & Nbsp;
On paper, at least for key podium, do not leave the beaten twenty-three American Richard Dornbush, who won the Lombardy Trophy in September before Takahito Mura, and the sixteen year old Canadian Nam Nguyen, emerging mate traning Hanyu gi & agrave; on the step pi & ugrave; of the podium at Skate America.
In the absence of & rsquo; injured host Nan Song, replaced by compatriot twenty-Yuhang Wang ,, the camp participants will & agrave; completed by & rsquo; eccentric Misha Ge of Uzbekistan, Uzbek twenty-three room & ograve; in Beijing, the seventeen year old Korean Kim Jin Seo, according to the latest Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Bratislava, the nineteen year old Japanese Keiji Tanaka, third in the Coupe de Nice in half & agrave; October, twenty-six Ukrainian Alexei Bychenko Israeli passport, did not go beyond the & rsquo; eleventh place at Skate America, and the twenty-two Chinese Yi Wang.
FEMALE FIELD
Shanghai will & agrave; theater season debut of sixteen year old Russian Julia Lipnitiskaia, struggling with a fall rather tormented by doubts about the free program, & more ugrave; times subject to change, and for some trouble too with shoes shoes.
The reigning European champion will have & agrave; deal with the seventeen year old compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, convincing second at Skate America, but above all capable of expressing high levels of competitiveness & agrave; in the four international races held so far. Moreover, the speech addressed to the brothers Shibutani is also true for the & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin, which confirms the place obtained in Chicago, book a ticket to Barcelona, ​​in & rsquo; s waiting to get a few weeks later to confirm the qualification to the final for mathematics.
It is present in Shanghai with ambitions important the sixteen US Polina Edmunds, making his debut in the Grand Prix & nbsp; after winning without getting the first leg of the ISU Challenger Series history, and the twenty year old Japanese Kanako Murakami, called redemption after being outshone by Miyahara fellow in the Japan Open in early October.
At least on paper, are placed one step more & ugrave; the nineteen Asley Cain, ambitious US not particularly brilliant in season debut occurred in Nepela Trophy, the twenty-year old compatriot Christina Gao, always torn between his studies at Harvard and the & rsquo; activities & agrave; competitive, and the sixteen year old Canadian Gabrielle Daleman, vinctrice a few weeks ago of & rsquo; s Autumn Classic Barrie.
The main uncertainty of the race is the seventeen year old landlady Zijun Li, recovering from a period of gradual decline and far from the pomp of the recent past in the first round of the national circuit in China.
The field of participants will & agrave; completed by twenty Gjersem Anne Line, Norwegian skater before taking part in the Grand Prix, the seventeen year old Korean Hae Jin Kim and twenty-six Swedish Viktoria Helgesson, both involved a few days ago at Skate Canada without leaving a mark.
LEXUS CUP SCHEDULE OF CHINA
FRIDAY & Igrave; November 7th 09:00 - Eurosport 2 - Short-dance (live) 10:30 - Eurosport 2 - Women's short program (live) 12:30 - Eurosport 2 - Men's short program (live) 14:30 - Eurosport 2 - short program pairs (Live)
Saturday, November 8
08:00 - Eurosport 2 - Free Dance (Live) 09:30 - Eurosport 2 - free program for women (live) 11:45 - Eurosport 2 - Men's Free Program (live) 14:00 - Eurosport 2 - free program pairs (direct )
Sunday, November 9
07:30 - Eurosport 2 - Gala (live) 21:45 - Eurosport INT. - Special programs best
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