Figure skating - J.G.p. Courchevel
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Courchevel & egrave; was the scene of & rsquo; inaugural act of the & ldquo; Junior Grand Prix & rdquo; Figure Skating, at its eighteenth edition. At a distance of twenty-four months, the main circuit of the youth discipline has reared at the & ldquo; Patinoire du Forum & rdquo ;, facility located at 1850 meters above sea level.
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The topic of interest was represented by & rsquo; impact of regulatory changes relating to artistic competitions, which came into force from July 1. On balance, the information obtained from & rsquo; French event proved to be enlightening and & egrave; was evident as some new rules have not yet been metabolized by the athletes. In particular, l & rsquo; impossibility & agrave; repeated three times in the same double jump in the free program has led to the & rsquo; cancellation of entire elements of jump. In addition, as expected, and in strict compliance with the directives imposed by the federation, the panel did not skimp severity & agrave; in judging the input wires of lutz and flip, with a lot of prominent athletes who have paid the consequences.
The role of the main protagonist & egrave; touched the Russian Evgenia Medvedeva (179.55), which appeared immediately in terms of shape brilliant. L & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze, remained at home to work on new programs Julia Lipnitskaia, dominated the race from one end & rsquo; another winning his third victory in three investments in qualifying stages of the Grand Prix and going close to crossing the barrier out of 180 points, a goal so far exceeded in junior races of the first level from the sun compatriots Elena Radionova and Serafima Sakhanovich, quests & rsquo; become final in the spring the new training partner just Medvedeva. & nbsp; The fourteen year old from Moscow, by far the best of the lot is the score on each item of the technical components of the program, highlighted quality & agrave; on each element of the top, archiving & agrave tranquility; that level four in the current season & will agrave; pi & ugrave; difficult to achieve for all, but especially did not reveal uncertainties on & rsquo; execution of jumps, placing the three mandatory elements of the short-program in the second half & agrave; music and completing seven triples and two double axel in the free program. L & rsquo; single problem involved the input wire of the triple lutz, remained in line with what happened last season, clearly inside. & Nbsp; The particular & egrave; proved irrelevant in the context of competition with opponents to two or more & ugrave; lower categories, but egrave &; likely that the script can change when arriver & agrave; time to face the best countrymen, especially those immune to the problem as Proklova and Sotskova. Specifically, the default setting in the & rsquo; approach to lutz & egrave; Cost to Medvedeva three points in each program.
The place d & rsquo; honor, due to detachment from the winner, & egrave; went to the Japanese Rin Nitaya (158.76), making its debut in the circuit and deservedly second in each segment of the race. Compared to the past, the seventeen year old Nagoya has revealed a greater solidity & agrave; on the jumps and & egrave; proved flawless on the elements of top. The dish of the house you are & ograve; revealed the combination of two triple toe loop, perfectly executed in both programs, not to mention that among the athletes get on the podium, Nitaya remains what it has lost less points because of imperfections on the triple lutz, this season jump preceded by mandatory step in short-program.
The third position & egrave; been conquered by a & rsquo; gluing the disappointing American Amber Glenn (148.08), which appeared in overweight and & rsquo; occasion completely abandoned by lutz. Fifteen Texas, national junior champion in stars and stripes, preceded almost eighteen Japanese Miyu Nakashio (147.78), able to complete seven triple jumps in the free program and two double axel, but a disadvantage compared to the athletes that & rsquo; preceded by a lower speed & agrave; and lower assessment on the components of the program.
An honorary mention it is for the promising Korean Choi Da Bin (137.51), author of the second abutment technician in the free program and only athlete competing in able to successfully run the triple lutz. The fourteen-year-Seoul, suffers from too much lost ground on each item of the components of the program, & egrave; had to settle for fifth place, but andr & agrave; followed closely in the next few appointments, because, Medvedeva aside, & egrave; revealed the pi & ugrave; complete the batch.
In the men's field, you & egrave; imposed convincingly the seventeen year old Korean June Hyoung Lee (203.81), which, in the & rsquo; occasion, he ripped the national record at the same age as well as absolute & eacute; historical opponent Seo Jin Kim, senior sixteenth in the World of Saitama. Clearly, the score obtained by the winner of the stage to Courchevel has a higher specific weight whereas in the free program of competitions & juniors do not egrave; planned sequence choreography.
Lee, able to complete eight triples in the free program, including a triple axel landed with step-out, gave Korea the first successful male in the main circuit juniors. Previously, thanks to Kim Yu-Na were, however, allegations came in the women.
The second place & egrave; went to fourteen Japanese Sota Yamamoto (195,80), which egrave &; proved superior to the winner of spins and steps, but has paid the price because of two severe drops on as many attempts at the triple axel, equally divided in match programs.
The podium & egrave; was completed by the sixteen year old Russian Alexander Samarin (179.16), appeared regenerated by treatment Tutberidze and finally be able to run that triple axel ever entered in his ropes when he was trained by Inna Goncharenko.
In fourth position, you & egrave; placed the promising Deniss Vasiljevs (172.99), fifteen Latvian possess a quality & agrave; Skating worthy of the senior class, but still far from mastering the most of different triple jumps, flips and axels on everyone.
In the race to dance & egrave; jumped over the counter and couples pi & ugrave; expectations on the eve have had to settle for placings. The victory & egrave; was conquered by the Russians at the Loboda / Pavel Drozd (132.44), who took advantage of the worries on the sequences of steps in a couple of Canadians Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang (129.62). Students to Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe, head of the short-term to dance, not egrave &; been enough feedback & ugrave pi; high in the sum of the components of the program to make up for the lost points during the free dance on diagonal and circle. & nbsp; In this regard, & egrave; only right to point out how the third winners in & rsquo; latest edition of the World Juniors will be encountered in a classic situation of early season, & nbsp; phase in which & egrave; important to understand and get used to the meter panel. & nbsp;
The step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium & egrave; was taken by surprise by the Russian debutants Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov (121,42), which preceded the disappointing Ukrainians Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin (120,88), on paper the main alternative to the Canadian couple. In the light of the result of Courchevel, in particular son of apparent smudges on twizzles of both segments of the race, l & rsquo; access to the final for the students of Alexander Zhulin is announced now highly complex.
With regard to the Italian team, after a & rsquo; absence from racing eight months & egrave; magazine l & rsquo; former national junior champion Sara Casella (102.07), who finished in thirteenth place. The sixteen of Courmayeur, coached by Romina Poli, showed the usual quality & agrave; of spins and steps, but egrave &; appeared far from the squaring of the circle on the elements of jump, axel and salchow on everyone. That still leaves the satisfaction of having completed one of the best triple lutz's short program, despite a landing with step-out.
In the men's trial, the eighteen year old school Giorgio Settembrini Forum (140,85) is & egrave; placed in eleventh position revealing a & rsquo; excellent command of the triple Rittberger and decent quality & agrave; of spins and steps. To make the leap in quality & agrave; sar & agrave; now crucial to find more consistency on triple jumps, seen, and considering that, by mastering flip, toe loop, salchow and Rittberger, it seems possible to run a free six triples and two double axel. It remains to & ograve; to solve l & rsquo; lutz longstanding problem associated with the short program, completed twice and not taken from the outer edge.
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