Figure skating - Grand Prix Final 2014/2015
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Yuzuru Hanyu took his second consecutive victory in the final of the Grand Prix enchanting the audience in Barcelona thanks to a free program that, in its own right, & egrave; gi & agrave; entered the history of the discipline.
Saturday 13 December 2014 6 minutes reading time
At the same time, the Japanese champion has silenced without possibility & agrave; Replication all the skeptics who, hastily and with little knowledge of the facts, had questioned the result of the short program shouting to the scandal.
The Japanese champions skated a free anthology improving personal best in the segment of the race and scoring the technical score pi & ugrave; top of the story. Hanyu opened the trial by performing in a celestial being quadruple salchow that the quadruple toe loop, which was added in the second half & agrave; music a couple of pearls as the combination triple axel / triple toe loop and l & rsquo; unusual combination triple axel / euler / triple salchow, stuff that alone & egrave; worth the price of admission.
In a performance also benefits from the undisputed quality & agrave; on the elements of spinning top, all judged the level pi & ugrave; the upper hand, the Olympic champion has completed the best two quads and seven triple jumps, falling near the end of & rsquo; operates on a triple lutz, properly judged under rotated.
Both segments of the race proved to be rich in transitional passages, which have enhanced the quality & agrave; Skating an athlete destined to rewrite the history of the discipline. Moreover, l & rsquo; interpretation today notes the & ldquo; Phantom of & rsquo; Opera & rdquo; & Egrave; was timely and lived to the point that Hanyu also gave the & rsquo; impression of humming during some steps of the program.
In second place, trailing by more than thirty points, you & egrave; placed Spaniard Javier Fernandez climbed from fifth crowning a comeback that had been made in the past only by Daisuke Takahashi when he was second in the final in Quebec City.
The landlord cos & Igrave; completed a triumphant result for the renowned stable of Brian Orser, although with respect to the race of the free program has failed one of the two quadruple salchow and there has been a shift to empty on an attempted triple lutz, made only single. On the positive note, placing apart, & egrave; was again represented by the quality & agrave; on the sequence of steps, the best of the race, and spins, all of level four.
Surprisingly, the twenty-seven Russian Sergei Voronov took third place taking advantage of the errors of opponents on paper pi & ugrave; qualified. & nbsp; The vice-European champion has silently completed a quadruple toe loop, a double axel and seven triple jumps, including two axel, ahead of compatriot Maxim Kovtun, where & egrave; missed one of the two quadruple salchow planned to take flight.
Next, you have placed the Japanese Takahito Mura, author of a free two quadruple toe loop and two triple axels, and Tatsuki Machida, shipwrecked inexplicably segment pi & ugrave; long race, accomplices three falls not only daughters of episodic difficulty & agrave; framework of toe loop and triple axel.
& Nbsp; FINAL STANDINGS
1) (JPN) - Yuzuru Hanyu & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 288.16 (1 | 1) SR2) (ESP) - Javier FERNANDEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 253.90 (5 | 2) 3) (RUS) - Sergei Voronov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 244.53 (4 | 3) 4) (RUS) - Maxim Kovtun & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 242.27 (3 | 5) 5) (JPN) - Takahito WALLS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 235.37 (6 | 4) 6) (JPN) - Tatsuki MACHIDA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 216.13 (2 | 6)
Legend: SR & ndash; season record / best performance of the season
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