Figure Skating
The second day of the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf opened with the men's short program, much anticipated event by the Italian public to the presence of Paul Bonifacio Parkinson still in the hunt for the Olympic pass.
Friday 27 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The segment of the race was dominated by defending champion Nobunari Oda (87.34), flawless interpretation of a brilliant choreography crafted by Lori Nichol for his style of skating. The veteran Japanese opened the disc with a sumptuous quadrupo toe loop and then completed a triple axel and a triple lutz combination / triple toe loop in the second half of the disc. Clearly, for the twenty-six Osaka came the best technical score and the highest rating of each component of the program.
It goes without saying that if the twenty-six Osaka able to maintain such a performance in the rest of the season, the male sector will have recovered in all respects a pretender to the Olympic podium.
In second place went to the American Jason Brown (79.41), author of the best short-program of his career. On the occasion, the vice-world champion junior, in addition to the usual elements of top quality, showed a good grasp of the triple axel, jump in the past has always created many headaches preventing "take flight."
The lowest step of the podium, however, is occupied by Canadian Jeremy Ten (76.49), author of a program without smudging as well as the son of Russian art Artur Dmtriev (73.39), its main rival.
In the ranking relative to the athletes in the race for the Olympic qualification, is located at the top of the eighteen year old Australian Brendan Kerry (67.97), which precedes the Romanian sailed Zoltan Kelemen (66,52), returned to comment on discrete levels of competitiveness after a season in which he racked up steps to empty in series. They can smile even the representative of Hong Kong Ronald Lam (64,55), strongly competitive athlete grew up in Canada, the Israeli import Alexei Bychenko (64,50), the Ukrainian Yakov Godorozha (63.38) and the blue Paul Bonifacio Parkinson (63.37) at the time of the last qualified.
The twenty-two native of Ottawa was penalized by a fall on the demanding quadruple Salchow and a non-perfect landing on the triple axel, but ran high tops bill that would have earned the highest level available.
In the free program tomorrow, the Italian-Canadian community will have to watch their backs eventual comeback of the Filipino Michael Christian Martinez (61.55) and Kim Lucine of Monaco (59.28), the main day of disappointed.
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