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In dance, the last five editions of the Grand Prix were characterized by the absolute domination of the US Davis / White, remained unbeaten for the & rsquo; entire span of time.
Monday 17 November 2014 12 minutes reading time
Having acknowledged the & rsquo; sabbatical of Olympic champions and eternal rivals Virtue / Moir, it was thought that the leitmotif of the new season could finally be the & rsquo; expected leveling of the values ​​in the field.
However, as seen so far, l & rsquo; the balance still seems to hang on the side of a couple in stars and stripes. Madison Chock and Evan Bates have, in fact, & ldquo; & rdquo caught on the fly; l & rsquo; hypothetical witness pick up where the award-winning compatriots had ended.
Students of Igor Shpilband, having dominated Skate America, have been repeated in the Rostelecom Cup, but most have filed scores that, previously, had been achieved in the months of October and November only by Davis / White, Virtue / Moir and in a & rsquo ; episodic occasion by Weaver / Poje (Skate Canada 2013). Moreover, it should be noted as in the stages of the Grand Prix of the previous post-Olympic season (2010-2011) score pi & ugrave; high the 171.58 obtained from Davis / White in the final in Beijing, when Choch / Bates not skated together again.
For all these reasons, but not limited to, the 174.28 reached in Moscow did not leave indifferent opponents, who surely be looking for appropriate counter-measures. It & rsquo; however became evident that in & rsquo; last stage of Grand Prix the degree of realization has been characterized by a generosity & agrave; worthy of the best Christmas spirit, but & egrave; equally true that, feast & agrave; or not, the US couple has proven to be worth well more & ugrave; 170 points at each exit.
In particular, the finding technical (TES-total elements score) reached in the Rostelecom Cup was a clear signal of the balance of power in that, in & rsquo; last four Olympics, no one who was not named Davis / White or Virtue / Moir had never pushed cos & Igrave; away, not to mention the growth in terms of PCS (program components score) over two lengths.
Ci & ograve; Accordingly, while it Chock / Bates seem to have convinced technical panels and judges, from & rsquo; others were greeted coolly by good part of the public, for now perplexed by the scores of excellence achieved and not particularly impressed by what we saw on the ice .
At this point, you just have to wait for the response of Canadians Weaver / Poje, when opponents of the designated record holders seasonal. & Nbsp;
On the sidelines, & nbsp; can not & ograve; go unnoticed as three new pairs have broken the barrier in the last months of the ninety points in the dance & nbsp; free. They are, in fact, added to the company the teen-ager French Papadakis / CIZERON, the Russian pair of recent training Ilinykh / Zhignashin and countrymen Stepanova / Bukin.
OVER 90 POINTS IN DANCE FREE FROM July 2010 (in bold couples currently activities & agrave;)
01) (USA) - Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 116,63 (57,50 | 59,13) - OWG Sochi 2014
02) (CAN) & ndash; Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 114.66 (56,22 | 58,44) - OWG Sochi 2014
03) (RUS) & ndash; ILINYKH Elena / KATSALAPOV Nikita 108.71 (51,91 | 56,80) - OWG Sochi 2014
04) (FRA) & ndash; Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian BOURZAT 107.17 (52,06 | 55,11) - W.Ch. Saitama 2014
05) (CAN) & ndash; Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 106.21 (51,06 | 55,15) - W.Ch. Saitama 2014
06) (ITA) & ndash; Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE 105.73 (50,57 | 55,16) - W.Ch. Saitama 2014
07) (USA) & ndash; CHOCK Madison / Evan BATES 105.47 (52,45 | 53,97) & ndash; Rostelecom Cup Moscow 2014
08) (RUS) & ndash; Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 102,95 (48,50 | 54,45) - OWG Sochi 2014
09) (USA) & ndash; Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 100.96 (48.46 / 52.50) & ndash; Ice Challenge 2014 Graz
10) (GBR) & ndash; COOMES Penny / BUCKLAND Nicholas 98.47 (48.69 / 50.78) - & nbsp; Rostelecom Cup Moscow 2014
11) (FRA) & ndash; PAPADAKIS Gabriella / CIZERON Guillaume
98,00 (48,14 | 48,96) & ndash; Cup of China 2014 Shanghai
12) (CAN) & ndash; GILLES Piper / Paul POIRIER 97.63 (50,35 | 47,28) - FCCH. Osaka 2013
13) (USA) & ndash; Madison HUBBELL / DONOHUE Zachary 97,20 (50,44 | 46,76) - FCCH. Taipei City 2014
14) (RUS) & ndash; ILINYKH Elena / ZHIGANSHIN Ruslan
96.31 (44.25 / 52.06) & ndash; Rostelecom Cup Moscow 2014
15) (GBR) & ndash; John KERR / Sinead KERR 94.62 (45,87 | 48,75) - E.CH. Bern 2011
16) (GER) & ndash; ZHIGANSHINA Nelli / Alexander Gazsi 93,68 (45,64 | 48,04) - W.Ch. London 2013
17) (RUS) & ndash; STEPANOVA Alexandra / Ivan Bukin
93.36 (47.22 / 46.14) & ndash; Espoo Finland Trophy 2014
18) (RUS) & ndash; RIAZANOVA Ekaterina / TKACHENKO Ilja 93.25 (44,86 | 48,39) - E.CH. Zagreb 2013
19) (RUS) & ndash; SINITSINA Viktoria / ZHIGANSHIN Ruslan 93.24 (46,50 | 46,74) & ndash; W.Ch. Saitama 2014
20) (CAN) & ndash; Vanessa Crone / Paul POIRIER 91.47 (45,74 | 45,73) - Skate Canada Kingston 2010
21) (CAN) & ndash; PAUL Alexandra / ISLAM Mitchell 91,08 (47,43 | 43,65) - W.Ch. Saitama 2014
22) (AZE) & ndash; Zlobina Julia / Alexei Sitnikov 90,48 (45,23 | 45,25) & ndash; O.W.G. Sochi 2014
23) (USA) & ndash; CHOCK Madison / zuerlein Greg 90.39 (45,65 | 44,74) - W.Ch. Moscow 2011
24) (RUS) & ndash; MONKO Ksenia / KHALIAVIN Kirill 90.09 (44,48 | 44,61) & ndash; Rostelecom Cup Moscow 2013
When we speak of free dance, & egrave; should analyze the regulatory changes that occurred during the & rsquo; summer. Specifically, to make up for all & rsquo; elimination of a lift, the international federation has decided to increase the value of each element. Consequently, each level of twizzles, the spinner and sequences of steps in pairs (diagonal, circle, midline, serpentine) & egrave; was increased six-tenths of a point, cos & Igrave; as the level of each lift & egrave; grew by half a point. In addition, to complete the & rsquo; work, starting this season, & egrave; was attributed to each couple the faculty & agrave; instead of making & eacute; a lift choreographic present value 0.3 (up to 0.2 last season), a top choreographic worth 0.6 points. On balance, the program technically perfect, to be clear what skated by Davis / White and Virtue / Moir on the occasion of the last Olympic Games, & egrave; passed by a & ldquo; base TES & rdquo; of 43.20 to a & ldquo; base TES & rdquo; of 43.50.
However, to maintain homogeneity & agrave; with scores of overall race of the past, even small changes were made to the values ​​of the elements typical of the short-dance. In fact, if on one hand the value of the sequences of steps in parallel (midline and circle) & egrave; rose by six tenths per level, the value of the two sequences of patterns & egrave; decreased by one level (except for the value of the level one, remained unchanged). Moreover, one of the two sequences of pattern & egrave; been replaced by a sequence on the topic of creative dance pattern (for this season the paso doble). The short-dance technically perfect, to be clear that skating by Davis / White on the occasion of the last Olympic Games (& hellip; but also by Cappellini / Lanotte in the last edition of Skate America), & egrave; decreased from a & ldquo; base TES & rdquo; 32 points in a & ldquo; base TES & rdquo; 31.7. In summary, although with small oscillations between short-dance and free dance, the maximum & ldquo; base TES & rdquo; reached during a race & egrave; was of 75.2 points.
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