Figure Skating
The gardenese finished second in the Espoo Finland Trophy: as good as ever on the components, it must find rhythm and cleansing on the jumps. The "real" season, however, is part of the ten-day Grand Prix
Monday 9 October 2017 6 minutes reading time
Four months today and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, the 23rd edition of the World War II, will celebrate its Inaugural Ceremony. Four months, therefore, to improve an already discreet condition and work above all to find continuity on jumps.
Carolina Kostner, gold medalist in Nice, outgoing Olympic bronze in Nice, returned to the races in January 2016, continues his 'work in progress' and finishes second in finishing the Espoo Finland Trophy, the sixth stage of the Challenger ISU 2017, after the third place at Lombardy Trophy in Bergamo, which represented his seasonal debut. The gardenese, the third after the short on Friday and the second in the "free", recovered a position in the final standings by also centering the 32nd podium in the last 33 races held in April 2010 (with the middle of the disqualification for lack of complaint on the Schwazer case ).
Still a bit 'too insecure about jumps, especially when opening the program, the blue skater has made the difference to the components (higher in both segments), always a great business card. The choreographic look, studied and cared for by Lori Nichol, is the classic factor for her tearing-applause. Voting over 9.00 (two 9.21) in choreography and interpretation that he has been able to give his skate program on the well-known notes of "Ne me quitte pas", "Claudio Debussy's Prelude at the Afternoon of a Fault". Carolina has totaled 72.36 of components, even better than that of the winner of the day, Russian Sotskova, 17, from Reutov, the eastern outskirts of Moscow, a working ice-maker on the CSKA complex and a pupil of Elena Buianova Adelina Sotnikova, Olympic gold in Sochi 2014.
His free score on the technical part, however, with no more than four triples and combinations to be revised, did not go beyond the ninth place and here the difference compared to Mary (also accompanied by Debussy's music, "Moonlight" ) is remarkable: 69.68 for the Russian against 53.95 of the gardenese. A gap of over 15 points that was then made to feel then in the final key. Morally, in the Finnish ranking the Russian broke 200 points (205.30), while Kostner stopped at 193.76. To complete the podium, downhill after the first position of the short, the other Russian Elizaveta Tuktamisheva. Quarta Wang (USA), fifth Leonova (Russia), a distant copy of what he was a few years ago and Carolina's coach in St. Petersburg (he traveled by train to Finland), both guru Alexei Mishin. In every Kostner he ripped applause on the ever-perfect spikes and in the sure sequence of steps, moved to the final part of the program. Compared to the aforementioned Bergamo test, three weeks ago, he achieved 4.60 points less. In the world rankings is currently 29th and should climb 6-7 short positions, meanwhile driving momentarily Challenger rankings.
But now it really is really serious. The flagship of the Blue Flames will try to fine-tune the jumps for the prestigious "Rostelecom Cup" in Moscow, the event that will open the ISU Grand Prix and for many athletes will represent the "true" seasonal debut. There, from Medeveda down, you will find some of the best skaters in the world. Carolina will make a brief return to Italy with coach Mishin, at Egna, for the Grand Prix Junior, training at Oberstdorf as in the old days. Then he will participate in the Absolutes of Milan, in Agorà , in the middle of December, then in the Europeans of Moscow in January. Olympic figure skating rallies are scheduled from 11 to 23 February at PyeongChang.
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