Figure skating - J.G.p. Aichi 2014
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Aichi, home to the fourth round of the Junior Grand Prix circuit, were for once the boys steal the show with members of the fairer sex, giving life to a test dall''alto technical profile.
Sunday 14 September 2014 13 minutes reading time
Not surprisingly, what dish of the third and final day of competition, you & egrave; decided to opt for the Men's Free program, which, on time, did not disappoint the expectations of & rsquo; passionate audience of & ldquo; Morikoro Park Skating Ring & rdquo ;.
In front of the watchful eyes of the idols local Nobunari Oda and Akiko Suzuki, trembling in the balustrade, the Chinese and the Japanese Boyang Jin Shoma Uno have been involved in a comparison of rare intensity & agrave; and uncertainty.
In the end, cos & igrave; as in the short program, l & rsquo; won the day by a narrow margin the sixteen of Harbin, which, with the success of today, the sixth in career between stages of qualification and final, equaled the record of the Russian Andrei Griazev, able to impose itself on six occasions between 2001 and 2003.
Boyang Jin (221.92), author of the new personal record, has proven to be a machine jumps with few equals, not only in completing this absolute fluency in three quad and seven triples, including two lutz, but also landed a triple axel with a step-out. Furthermore, only because of un''ingenuit & agrave; on top combo that did not take value, the young Chinese man, standing at 151.04 points, he missed the all-time best performance in a free program junior, still in possession of the American Jason Brown (154.09 over the course of the World class of 2013 played in Milan).
Shoma Uno (219.99), athlete pi & ugrave; fully capable of expressing higher quality & agrave; the elements of the top and in terms of skating, tried to curb the excessive power on the jumps and the rival & egrave; managed to land two quadruple toe loop, the first of which is to stun beauty. However, the party & rsquo; absence of the triple axel and because of the rotation missing on the second quadruple toe loop, has accumulated more than seven points behind in the technical response, which for the truth & agrave; were almost twice taking into consideration only the base value of the elements executed. L & rsquo; student of Machiko Yamada has rebounded on the components of the program outperforming the Chinese more than six lengths, but, on balance, despite the best performance of his career, he & egrave; had to settle for place d & rsquo; honor.
Result aside, the reasons for satisfaction for Shoma Uno are at least three: first to have improved personal best total of thirteen points, have landed in second place for the first time in a competition of the first level a quadruple jump, but above all to be successful to complete the triple lutz on two occasions without incurring the calling thread wrong input.
In virt & ugrave; success today, Boyang Jin, gi & agrave; winner in Ljubljana, has gained 'access to the final in Barcelona, ​​where, probably, the main obstacles to the confirmation of the title won last year on the ice of Fukuoka will be Petrov and Uno, both beaten in the qualifying stages.
In third position, you & egrave; placed the Russian Dmtri Aliev (189.82), fifteen-room in St. Petersburg gi & agrave; on the step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium in the stage of Ljubljana two weeks ago. Aichi, l & rsquo; student Kirill Davidenko, while committing smears of various kinds, has hinted to be one of the athletes to follow more closely in the years to come, confirming the mastery of a quadruple and triple jumps all.
Among the noteworthy results, ranging remarkability fourth of the Canadian junior national champion Denis Margalik (176.26), which has for & ograve; decided to defend the current season the colors of his native Argentina, and the sixth position of the Malaysian Chinese school Julian Zhi Jie Yee (171.95).
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Previously, it & egrave; turning the free dance, which established important verdicts in optics qualification for the final.
Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang (134,42) on the podium in the last five stages played without ever being able to establish themselves, they have finally debunked the tab & ugrave; victory giving Canada the second consecutive win after that conquered by Bent / MacKeen to Ostrava.
The success & egrave; for & ograve; found exceedingly suffered as students Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe, second day in both programs, they had to resist the bully back Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd (133.98), appeared regenerated after a short stutter-dance. The Russian pair, losing much on the technical side in the first segment of the race, & egrave; redeemed with interest in the free dance, which was won by a wide margin over the competition. Specifically, after a difficult start characterized by an error on twizzles, the pair coached by Ksenia Rumantsieva had the merit of finding a dual level three on the sequences of steps, a rare occurrence at the junior level, managing to create a vacuum on the right side technician. & nbsp; & nbsp;
The Americans Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (131.42), penalized by some heartache too many sequences of steps in pairs, they had to settle for step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium thwarting the good had been revealed in the short-dance, which was won convincingly.
It should be noted at the level of program components in the free dance, the couples get on the podium are or almost as & eacute; remained on the same line, as evidence, in any case, the substantial leveling of values ​​emerged in the course of the race.
To follow, but with a large detachment, were placed the young Russian school Zhulin Eva Khachaurian / Andrei Bagin (115.65), which confirmed the results obtained in Ljubljana.
Thanks to today's result, Loboda / Drozd, winners of the opening stage of Courchevel, you are qualified for the final, while Edwards / Pang, will have to wait for the next few weeks in order to obtain the mathematical certainty of race in Barcelona and not, therefore, be mocked by the skin of our teeth as it did twelve months ago. Obviously, in parit & agrave; placements conquered, the Russian couple on the list that precedes the Canadian way of the greater number of points collected in the four segments of the race.
Moreover, in the light of what happened in the first four stages and seasonal camp participants of the events were scheduled, Canada and Russia seem on track to monopolize the six places available for the final. In fact, for couples US Moore / Klaber, McNamara / Carpenter and Parsons / Parsons, all so far on the step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium, may not be sufficient in the success & rsquo; their commitment to snatch the last ticket for Barcelona. A similar scenario, impronosticabile on the eve of the season, he would have the resounding as from 2003 on at least a couple dancing the United States took part in the final.
The situation is even worse if he turns his gaze to the other three specialties & agrave; why & eacute; the risk that any skater to reach the stars stripes & rsquo; concluding act of the circuit is concrete. It goes without s & eacute; that, except for l & rsquo; 2001 edition deserted after the tragic events of & rsquo; September 11, the United States is at least one skater & egrave; always qualified for the final.
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The Junior Grand Prix circuit will stop & agrave; for a week, before returning to the dance at the end of September with the stage of Tallinn in Estonia. Nell & rsquo; occasion and until the & rsquo; final stage of qualification will also be the pairs of art.
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