Figure SkatingFigure Skating - Men Short
'' The anticipated duel between Chan and Hanyu has certainly lived up to expectations'' Iceberg Palace of Sochi, where he staged the short program individually.
Thursday 13 February 2014 10 minutes reading time
'' The student Brian Orser, dancing to the tune of "Parisienne Walkway" by Gary Moore, has completed the most of all the technical elements proposed, beginning with a quadruple toe loop excelled followed by a large triple Axel and a triple Lutz magnificent combination -triple toe loop, achieving level 4 even in the sequence of steps in that season had struggled to achieve. Unique, mild flaw in the top level three Change Sit Spin.
The Technical Elements Score 54.84 points, accompanied by 46.61 points on the components obtained by virtue of a rich and exciting program, have allowed the nineteen year old Japanese scollinare share of 100 points, the first man ever to cross a threshold that only a few years ago it was thought impassable, thus improving the already his world record with 101.45.
In second place was the reigning world champion tri Partick Chan. The Canadian scored 97.52 points, very close to its staff, despite the'' error on the triple Axel closed with step out which deprived him of the opportunity to go into triple digits. Chan still has the best score on the components of the program (47,18) improving anch'' it record a point in the PCS, not revealing, however, the usual advantage over younger Japanese rival.
Rounding out the podium in part, but definitely detached from the leading pair, Javier Fernández (86,98). The reigning European champion led on the ice "Satan Takes a Holiday", however skated with several smears beginning with a quadruple Salchow step out with a triple Axel is not very clear and a combination of triple Lutz - triple toe loop difficult. The high level components of the program are guaranteed to command a platoon fierce ten athletes encased in five points, to emphasize a distinct two-speed competition: the struggle for the'' gold and the rest of the world.
In fourth position was hoisted Daisuke Takahashi who pays dearly for the quadruple toe loop downgraded. To tell you the truth even triple Axel has not seemed clear, but the panel has not prevailed on the Japanese, the only representative of the Olympic podium in race outgoing.
Completing the top 6 of the German author Peter Liebers a very solid and Jason Brown. The Yankees completed a short very spectacular, but the junior runner-up 2013 pay a high price for the absence of a'' four times in his bag of tricks.
Awaited by a whole nation Evgeni Plushenko during heating accused severe back pain, battered by years, which has forced the'' student of Alexei Mishin to retire in what should be'' was the last performance of the Tsar. For details, see this article.
In Italy the other home performance disconcerting Paul Bonifacio Parkinson who brought on the ice but the usual ambitious program that, given the very low percentage of implementation of the technical elements, has proved for the umpteenth time,'' a'' double-edged sword . The native of Ottawa has totaled 56.30 points is the result of a fall on the quadruple Salchow that on the triple Axel and triple Toeloop sottoruotato in combination with the triple Lutz. Obviously the score from'' blue was not enough to access the free program which will be staged tomorrow.
Here are the rankings of the short program:
Pos
Qual.
Name
Nationality
Total
TES
PCS
1
Q
Yuzuru Hanyu
JPN
101.45
54.84
46.61
2
Q
Patrick CHAN
CAN
97.52
50.34
47.18
3
Q
Javier FERNANDEZ
ESP
86.98
43.87
43.11
4
Q
Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
86.40
41.75
44.65
5
Q
Peter LIEBERS
GER
86.04
47.26
38.78
6
Q
Jason BROWN
USA
86.00
45.39
40.61
7
Q
Brian JOUBERT
FRA
85.84
45.11
40.73
8
Q
YAN Han
CHN
85.66
44.94
40.72
9
Q
Denis TEN
KAZ
84.06
43.49
41.57
10
Q
Majorov Alexander
SWE
83.81
45.52
38.29
11
Q
Tatsuki MACHIDA
JPN
83.48
40.98
42.50
12
Q
Michal BREZINA
CZE
81.95
42.20
39.75
13
Q
Tomas VERNER
CZE
81.09
42.11
39.98
14
Q
Florent AMODIO
FRA
75.58
35.79
39.79
15
Q
Jeremy ABBOTT
USA
72.58
37.21
37.37
16
Q
HENDRICKX Jorik
BEL
72.52
39.88
32.64
17
Q
Kevin REYNOLDS
CAN
68.76
33.98
36.78
18
Q
GE Misha
UZB
68.07
35.64
32.43
19
Q
Michael Christian MARTINEZ
PHI
64.81
33.31
31.50
20
Q
RAKIMGALIEV Abzal
KAZ
64.18
34.50
29.68
21
Q
Yakov GODOROZHA
UKR
62.65
34.08
28.57
22
Q
Alexei Bychenko
ISR
62.44
32.05
31.39
23
Q
Viktor ROMANENKOV
EST
61.55
34.16
27.39
24
Q
KELEMEN Zoltan
ROU
60.41
30.40
30.01
25
Javier RAYA
ESP
59.76
28.91
30.85
26
Viktor PFEIFER
AUT
56.60
25.23
31.37
27
Paul Bonifacio Parkinson
ITA
56.30
28.91
28.39
28
Liam Firus
CAN
55.04
27.47
29.57
29
KERRY Brendan
AUS
47.12
21.87
26.25
WD
Evgeny PLYUSHCHENKO
RUS
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