Shoma A tame Nathan Chen qualified in the men's short Zagreb

Shoma Uno doma Nathan Chen nel qualificato corto maschile di Zagabria
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Figure skating - J.G.p. Zagreb 2014

Shoma A tame Nathan Chen qualified in the men's short Zagreb

The seventh and final stage of qualifying for the Junior Grand Prix circuit, hosted by the & ldquo; Dom Sportova & rdquo; Zagreb, you & egrave; opened with the men's short program.

The competition & egrave; was characterized by the showdown Japanese Shoma Uno (74.82), able to retouch the personal best by more than four lengths as well & egrave; determine the best performance of the season in a junior event. The sixteen year old student of Machiko Yamada, impeccable on steps and spins, highlighted in & rsquo; occasion significant progress on indigestible elements of jump imposed by the STAR segment of the race. In addition to having performed without any heartache combination triple flip / triple toe loop, has, in fact, avoided falling on the triple axel, completing l & rsquo; component with the & rsquo; support of one hand on the ice and with a step-out. In addition, a confirmation of what happened in the stage of Aichi, has proven to be successful for & ldquo; fix & rdquo; the triple lutz, which called the panel aside, is starting to give the semblance of a jump taken from the outer edge. Shoma Uno, forced to close the competition in the first two positions in order to have the mathematical certainty of access to the final circuit, preceded l & rsquo; awaited US Nathan Chen (72,57) coming out for the moment the winner by & rsquo; interesting challenge between the current best interpreters in the junior category. Chen, making his debut season, has revealed the usual quality & agrave; skating, presenting a full program of transitional passages, but egrave &; fell like d & rsquo; habit on the triple axel, in addition to having completed the combination of triple flip / triple toe loop with some uncertainty too. In third place is & egrave; placed the Korean compelling June Hyoung Lee (68.52), winner of the stage of Courchevel and now author of the new personal record, despite a landing step out of the triple axel and the call of the thread wrong input on the triple lutz, usually a & rsquo ; anomaly for the Korean school. L & rsquo; awaited Russian Andrei Lazukin (56.44), fresh from the success of last week in Dresden, & egrave ;, however, run into a bad day on the elements of jump is not going beyond the ninth position. & Nbsp; In particular, the sixteen year old St. Petersburg has accumulated a significant detachment from & rsquo; useful to secure the last spot & rsquo; access to the final, fourth place occupied by compatriot progressed Murad Kurbanov (64,98). Fatale & egrave; was a single axel, in addition to landings scrubby combination of triple lutz and triple flip / triple toe loop. In virt & ugrave; the rankings today, one would reach the finals and Lee Jin Chinese, Russian and Japanese Yamamoto Petrov, while the & rsquo; would go to the last seat available Canadian Sadosvky. Lazukin to close the qualifying stage among the six best sar & agrave; forced to quit the race in the first four positions and in the case of fourth place will have agrave &; get at least 125.40 points. Lights and shadows for the & rsquo; Italian Carlo Vittorio Palermo (47,17), which is & egrave; had to settle for nineteenth place in the absence of the official record of the race for a few hundredths of a point. L & rsquo; pupil of Lorenzo Magri has completed a well-triple toe loop combination / triple toe loop and & egrave; distinguished for the quality & agrave; of steps and spins, deserving in block level pi & ugrave; high available. The negative notes were represented by unannounced falls on a double axel and triple lutz, however degraded double-panel technical and sanctioned for not outside the wire. The program is free disputer & agrave; tomorrow starting at 17:15. Nell & rsquo; occasion, Shoma Uno andr & agrave; chasing the first successful career in the circuit will be dissolved and the last nodes regarding the qualification to the final in Barcelona.
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