Figure Skating - Team Event - 2014 Sochi
With the short dance and the female short ended the first phase of the Team Event which will award the evening of tomorrow, the first Olympic medals in figure skating. At the final stage of entering Russia, Canada, USA, Japan and Italy.
Saturday 8 February 2014 6 minutes reading time
In the early afternoon'' s Iceberg Palace of Sochi has staged the Short Dance, won by the United States of America thanks to the pair Meryl Davis & Charlie White (75.98) that, dancing on their proven Foxtrot, preceded rivals ever Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (72.98) with Tessa who lost for a moment the rotation in the second set of tweezle.
Third place and 8 points forfeited for the Russian team that with the tandem of Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev has limited the maximum losses from Canada due to their new personal best (70.27) that allowed him to overcome the most renowned French Pechalat / Bourzat.
Fifths our Cappellini / Lanotte (64.92), who can complain to an artistic performance has not been implemented properly by the technical panel.
Following is worn short program that has seen women excel the European champion in office Julia Lipnitskaia. The Russian has performed brilliantly all the technical elements in the program, performing a triple toe loop combination of exquisite workmanship after a difficult landing the triple Lutz and the usual spins of rare beauty. 72.90 The record earned him the staff (bar a few tenths performance at the 2013 Rostelecom Cup last November), thanks to a second score slightly abundant. With this performance, Russia has already secured three quarters of a gold medal as it will encompass the free end with 5-point lead.
Second place with 70.84 points, Carolina Kostner. The blue has opened the program with a triple toe loop + triple toe loop combination performed well, which was followed by a good solid triple loop and a double axel. As usual from the technical point of view has not paid the achievement of level 4 on the flying camel and layback spin.
Third place for Mao Asada. The Japanese has compromised his performance on the triple axel downgraded for not completing the rotation and the combination triple Rittberger + double Rittberger not spotless.
Completing the top 5 the American Ashley Wagner and the Canadian Osmond. The sixth place achieved by Maé Bérénice Méité not allow France to defend the comeback of Italy that tonight will be back on the ice for the final five teams this Team Event.
Here are the final standings after four short programs:
POS
TEAM
WOMEN
MEN
COUPLES
DANCE
TOTAL
1
Russia
10
9
10
8
37
2
Canada
6
8
9
9
32
3
USA
7
4
6
10
27
4
Japan
8
10
3
3
24
5
Italy
9
1
7
6
23
6
France
5
6
4
7
22
7
China
4
7
8
1
20
8
Germany
2
5
5
5
17
9
Ukraine
3
3
2
2
10
10
Great Britain
1
2
1
4
8
Will start at 19.05 the pairs free skating with the following couples engaged in the race:
1
JPN
Narumi TAKAHASHI
Ryuichi Kihara
2
USA
Marissa CASTELLI
Simon SHNAPIR
3
ITA
Stefania BERTON
Ondrej Hotárek
4
CAN
Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS
Dylan Moscovitch
5
RUS
Ksenia Stolbova
Fedor Klimov
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