Figure skating - J.G.p. Ostrava 2014
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The third stage of the Junior Grand Prix circuit, hosted by the & ldquo; CEZ Arena & rdquo; Ostrava, & egrave; was characterized by & rsquo; exploits of Canada's team, capable of playing in three of the four specialties & agrave ;.
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The success arrived yesterday with a pair of artistic Seguin / Bilodeau and dancers Bent / MacKeen, you & egrave; Added today's victory Roman Sadosvky in the men's competition. Previously, Canadian skaters ever had gotten more & ugrave; two statements in the same stage and in any case is also the same goals & egrave; always proved to be a rare event (only three previous l & rsquo; least of which is dated September 2005 when on the home ice of the Montreal triumphed Patrick Chan and Virtue / Moir).
Sadovsky (192.08), fifteen of Toronto, has laid the foundations for the win in the short program in which he accumulated a safe margin over opponents. In truth & agrave ;, & egrave; was just the first segment of the race to determine the six top positions in the rankings, which, strange, remained unchanged at the end of the free program, characterized by a technical rate not exciting. Steps, in fact, l & rsquo; absence of quads, we can & ograve; stay in a junior competition, but not egrave &; completed successfully and no triple axel combination of two triple jumps have represented the & rsquo; exception.
The winner, the second podium of his career in the circuit, not egrave &; been immune to errors in the program today, especially a bad fall on a triple attempt Rittberger, but egrave &; managed not to lose ground due to better quality & agrave; overall skating that has allowed him to create a vacuum on each item of the program components. Moreover, for Canada's victory in the men's field was missing since September of 2010, when Andrei Rogozine, to become the & igrave; a few months junior world champion, prevailed in the stage of Kuruizawa in Japan.
Following this, & egrave; placed the sixteen year old Russian Alexander Samarin (188.69), which has improved the third-place finish in the stage of Courchevel, removing the satisfaction of winning the free program and keeping alive the hope of being able to qualify for the final in Barcelona. L & rsquo; pupil of the team not Buianova & egrave; however, been immune to the imperfections of various kinds and at the end he completed only six triple jumps, messing again on the triple axel.
The third position & egrave; Are you going to the eighteen year old Japanese Kawahara (184.69), which despite the problems with the triple axel, you & egrave; demonstrated the best jumper of the lot as to make the best score in the free program technical feedback.
At the foot of the podium & egrave; certificate novice American Andrew Torgashev (182.57), able to not deface the presence of opponents well pi & ugrave; navigated and able to complete today were somehow two double axel and seven triple jumps. The son d & rsquo; Art stationed in Florida preceded by a wide margin the eighteen year old Frenchman Simon Hocquaux (175.04) and the fifteen Russian Daniil Bernadiner (172.04), other rookie hopefuls.
All the guys got off on the ice in the & rsquo; ultimate merit group were able to improve the personal record of the race.
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The highlight of the day & egrave; for state & ograve; l & rsquo; concluding act of the women's competition, which has graced the morning and the first public pomerggio of Ostrava.
In accordance with the prediction of the vigil, you & egrave; sets the Russian Evgenia Medvedeva (171.12), which is & egrave; qualified with maximum points for the final in Barcelona scheduled in two months. The fourteen year old Russian gi & agrave; winner in Courchevel two weeks ago, & egrave; managed to defend the & rsquo; imbattibilit & agrave; personnel in the qualifying stages (four wins out of four races), while, including the final, the winning streak for the Russian skaters & egrave; increased to six races and looks set to continue.
Numbers aside, l & rsquo; student of Ethers is Tutberdize & egrave; total expressed on a lower level compared to the & rsquo; French release, as evidenced by the fact that it is not able to excel in any segment of the race. However, if the outcome of Thursday on igrave; Medvedeva pu & ograve; complain to the & rsquo; unusual error on the combination, very little pu & ograve; regret for what happened today. As a result, the next two months are announced fundamental to understand where to put the hands of a free program that, except for the triple lutz taken from the wrong thread, & egrave; been skated on two occasions without snagging. Not egrave &; excluded that the combination of opening triple flip / triple toe loop can be moved in the second half & agrave; music to try to gain a few tenths, but obviously, it becomes essential to work to try to obviate & rsquo; atavistic problem with the wire detachment of the triple lutz. The winner of the race & egrave; removed, however, the satisfaction of getting the score pi & ugrave; high day in the sum of the components of the program and has completed two double axel and seven triple jumps, as well as having achieved the highest level available on the elements of top.
The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; was won by rookie Wakaba Higuchi (169.68), Japanese national champion in charge of the novice category. The thirteen year old Tokyo preceded the & rsquo; entire competition in the free program in which he revealed huge confidence with the triple lutz, by far the best so far seen in the first three stages of the season. Higuchi, fifth at the end of the first segment of the race, he finished in absolute fluency two double axel and seven triple jumps, including the second triple lutz performed extremely well at the end of the program. Moreover, at the level of junior competition, the finding technical totaled on the ice of Ostrava remains second only to those achieved by Sakhanovich stage in Ljubljana the past week and Radionova in the World category last season. Lodi apart for the & rsquo; technical aspect, the margins for improvement remain important both on the interpretation, both as regards the steps of transition between an element and l & rsquo; another. Obviously, in the light of & rsquo; & et agrave; the skater will be there & agrave; time and opportunity to intervene in the way pi & ugrave; appropriate.
Karen Chen (160.95), the race leader after the short program, you & egrave; had to settle for step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium, unable to defend themselves from the return of Japanese Mariko Kihara (156.05), able to complete two double axel and six triples, as well as a triple toe loop judged under-rotated. L & rsquo; waiting American has paid duty in relation to the opponent because of too many steps to empty the elements of jump higher value, collecting a drop in combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, complete with a toe loop downgraded to a double, and a pair of touchdowns scrubby and to limit the rotation on the combination double axel / triple toe loop and the second triple lutz presented.
Disappointing performance also for the 'waiting Russian Elizaveta Yushchenko (147.82), which, accomplices lost points for the combinations scheduled for misses and other smudges here and l & agrave ;, you & egrave; had to settle for fifth place, saying goodbye to the possibility well in advance & agrave; to reach the final.
At the margin, it should be noted what happened to the & rsquo; interesting skater Latvian Angelina Kuchvalska, ranked seventh behind the fourteen-year Korean Na Hyun Kim (137.38) & nbsp; For reasons that do not & egrave; as we know, the fifteen-line skated to the tune of the music program designed for senior free. Consequently, & egrave; was punished with three penalty points as the song & egrave; lasted 3:55, instead of & eacute; the 3:30 (+/- 10 seconds) provided for in Regulation (every 5 seconds in pi & ugrave; beyond 3:40, taking a penalty of one point). A & ograve us; must be added the loss of a whole element jumping well executed (combination triple salchow / double Rittberger / double Rittberger), because of the & rsquo; naivete & agrave; have repeated twice triple lutz, triple toe loop and triple salchow.
Regardless, Kuchvalska has improved the national record of Latvia finished the race with 137.05 points (previous limit 133.48, Alina Fjodorova).
In optical qualification to the final, said Medvedeva, is exceedingly complicated the situation for the American skaters, that in the first three stages have filed many third places. At this point, Amber Glenn, Leah Keiser and Karen Chen could not do with a second place in the next matches to snatch the ticket to Barcelona. The scenario would be as apocalyptic, made the save & rsquo; 2001 edition deserted by American athletes after the events of & rsquo; September 11, c & rsquo; & egrave; always been at least one skater stars and stripes in the final. In this regard, it should be for & ograve; noted that up to 2010 l & rsquo; access to the & rsquo; & egrave last act; been reserved to eight atlteti, instead of & eacute; the current six.
The Junior Grand Prix circuit is sposter & agrave; next week in Aichi, who will host Japanese center & agrave; the fourth stage.
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Roman SADOVSKY - Jr. Grand Prix 2014/15, Ostrava - free program
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