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The long program of Olympic figure skating began with the novel'' Team Event, team competition which will conclude on Sunday.
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In the first of three days of the event'', the'' Iceberg Palace in Sochi was the scene of the initial segments of the race of the men's and pairs of artistic
The provisional smiled to Russia, capable of storing a second place in the men's trial due to Evgenj Plushenko and net as well as a discounted success among couples with Volosozhar / Trankov,'' occasion in impeccable.
In second place, with a gap of two lengths, is Canada, penalized by a below-par performance by Patrick Chan, today'' s height Duhamel / Radford, preceded only by the reigning World Champions.
The provisional podium is completed by China, driven by two covincenti evidence of the couple's Han Yan and Peng / Zhang.
It is well defended Japan, which has complied with the plan on the eve of filing a hit with Yuzuru Hanyu and the'' eighth place with Takahashi / Kihara.
Accomplice evidence colorless Jeremy Abbott on the elements of jumping, the United States, on paper the main pretenders to the lowest rung of the podium, have not gone beyond the fifth place on a par with France and Germany.
Italy'' s betrayed by yet another performance'' colorless'' s native Paul Bonifacio Parkinson'' s had to settle for eighth place. '' The student Becky Calvin has proved totally inadequate to the Olympic stage collecting, one day, two crashes. Paucity technique aside, I'm a bully again emerged in the gaps artistic, illustrated by the mediocre score is each item of the program components.
To revive the fortunes of the blue team, sadly, at the end of the last men's short program, we thought Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek, between the pairs of artistic quarters complete with a new national record. The pair coached by Franca Bianconi has broken for the first time in his career the wall of the seventy points revealing a fine run of form.
In the light of today's Russia looks set to win the title, while Canada has laid the groundwork to get the silver medal''. In optics third place, also in the light of the value of the athletes who will skate in the coming days, the United States remains an advantage compared to Japan. '' The last place available for the second phase of the race remains in runoff between China, France and Italy. However, in this sense, will determine the choices of the Asian team who will decide in the next few hours if you use Zijun Li or Zhang Kexin in short female.
PROVISIONAL STANDINGS (in brackets the points gained in the test between men and couples)
01) 19 (09 | 10) - Russia 02) 17 (8 | 9) - Canada 03) 15 (7 | 8) - Cina04) 13 (10 | 3) - Japan 05) 10 (5 | 5) - Germany , 06) 10 (6 | 4) - France 07) 10 (4 | 6) - USA 08) 08 (1 | 7) - Italy 09) 05 (3 | 2) - Ukraine 10) 03 (2 | 1) - Great Britain
The top five nations in the short-term program will access free.
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