Figure Skating - Short Women - Sochi 2014
Iceberg'' s Palace of Sochi has staged the most spectacular short program ever with three athletes over 74 points.
Wednesday 19 February 2014 11 minutes reading time
The race is uphill shots in the final, when the athletes'' s last group have tried in vain to unseat Yuna Kim from the top of the table, took to the track as one of the first, due to the low HDI ranking due to absence'' races in'' last year.
The reigning Olympic champion Yuna Kim is in the lead after the Women's Short Program with the amazing score of 74.92 the result of a high technical score jumps built with almost perfect. The combination of triple Lutz - triple toe loop landing with a huge bill is slipped anthology, to which he added a very solid triple flip and a double Axel well executed. From the technical point of view, looking for the'' needle in a haystack, we report the inverted top level 3, as well as the sequence of steps. The components instead they did set a new, temporary, world record with 35.89 thanks to a precise program and rich in elements and difficulty. All this did not allow him to improve his world record of Vancouver (78.50) only because of the absence of the spiral in the new'' short'' imposed by the ISU.
Second place for the Russian owner, Adelina Sotnikova that fell on the ice for the penultimate, lifts the fortunes of the hosts after the debacle of Lipnitskaya. '' The student of Elena Buianova has performed the best Carmen a wonderful opening with the combination triple toe loop - triple toe loop high followed by a triple flip performed well, both the spinners to level four, a solid triple Axel and a precise sequence of steps and elaborated that'' led her to get level 4, only 30 got out of the skater on the ice to get it. Ben also paid on components (35,55) for a total of 74.64 points, which is a new European record in the short program.
Kim said momentary record on the components as Carolina Kostner has raised the rod to 36.63'' with a "Hail Mary" wonderful and full of choreographic elements of high quality, despite the transition that do not exceed rightly nine. Our bearer scored 74.12 points, his new personal record, closing at closely by reigning Olympic champion. Carolina opened the program with the combination of triple flip - triple toe loop, a proposal with the clear intention of attacking rivals with respect to'' usual and more conservative with two triple toe loop combination. Valuable even triple Rittberger and double Axel, with the steps of level three, as the rival Asian, and built the spinning upside down to get to level three. Tomorrow will be able to hunt for a medal, which coronerebbe a career at the highest level.
Close to its staff, the'' American Gracie Gold took the fourth place. '' The student of Frank Carroll botched landing is'' exceedingly on the double Axel that the triple toe loop combination, even at the limit of the rotation, offset errors from the tops of the highest workmanship.
Only the fifth favored by bookmakers Eve Julia Lipnitskaya paying a very high price a fall on the triple flip, downgraded to a double. It should be noted that the panel did not call an inner wire Lutz evident on the combination. The usual quality and spectacular spins, four level, the keep alive the hunt for a medal, although the gap in the light of today's results of the first three, it is not easily ricucibile.
Sixth and seventh the two Americans Ashley Wagner and Polina Edmunds, with the first one that pays the now classic'' error'' on the combination of aperture and the second, which fell on the ice in the top, the lack of rotation of the toe loop combination.
The big disappointment of the day is Japan's Mao Asada. The Japanese put on the ice a "Nocturne in E Flat Major" by Chopin disastrous, full of burrs and tension, that'' They undermine part in sixteenth position. The student'' Nobuo and Kumiko Sato completely wrong all three jumps, falling on the triple Axel, triple flip as called sottoruotato and landing feet together on the first Rittberger combination of call and then sequentially with adjoining able to run negative for a total of 22.63 points technician. To no avail the 33.88 of program components that are not enough to keep it afloat in the race for medals.
Good performance for Valentina Marchei. The twenty-seven Milan opened the program with combination triple Salchow - Tripo Toeloop where, however, did not complete the rotation only double closing with a landing problem that cost him a negative grade of execution. The Lutz was not the one of the best days and 27.52 points weigh a lot on the ranking of Valentina at the level of second score scored 29.50 fruit of a beautiful rendition of "Back to Suriento" who snatched the applause of the whole'' arena. Tomorrow in the free program the Italian skater can improve the ranking (twelfth) with a solid and convincing evidence.
Tomorrow afternoon, starting at 16:00 will be staged'' s final act of figure skating with the free program.
Here are the standings after the Short Program:
1
Q
Yuna KIM
KOR
74.92
39.03
35.89
2
Q
Adelina Sotnikova
RUS
74.64
39.09
35.55
3
Q
KOSTNER Carolina
ITA
74.12
37.49
36.63
4
Q
GOLD Gracie
USA
68.63
36.55
32.08
5
Q
Yulia Lipnitskaya
RUS
65.23
33.15
33.08
6
Q
Ashley Wagner
USA
65.21
31.43
33.78
7
Q
EDMUNDS Polina
USA
61.04
32.98
28.06
8
Q
Akiko SUZUKI
JPN
60.97
28.71
32.26
9
Q
Mae Berenice MEITE
FRA
58.63
30.83
27.80
10
Q
Nathalie Weinzierl
GER
57.63
31.94
25.69
11
Q
LI Zijun
CHN
57.55
30.01
27.54
12
Q
Marchei Valentina
ITA
57.02
27.52
29.50
13
Q
OSMOND Kaetlyn
CAN
56.18
27.51
28.67
14
Q
ZHANG Kexin
CHN
55.80
32.68
23:12
15
Q
Kanako MURAKAMI
JPN
55.60
26.72
28.88
16
Q
Mao ASADA
JPN
55.51
22.63
33.88
17
Q
GEDEVANISHVILI Elene
GEO
54.70
27.51
27.19
18
Q
KIM Haejin
KOR
54.37
29.23
25.14
19
Q
Gabrielle DALEMAN
CAN
52.61
28.07
24.54
20
Q
Ukolova Elizaveta
CZE
51.87
29.72
22:15
21
Q
Nicole RAJICOVA
SVK
49.80
26.63
23:17
22
Q
HAN Brooklee
AUS
49.32
26.37
22.95
23
Q
So Youn PARK
KOR
49.14
25.35
23.79
24
Q
GJERSEM Anne Line
NOR
48.56
26.13
22:43
25
Jenna McCorkell
GBR
48.34
25.34
23:00
26
Kerstin FRANK
AUT
48.00
26.64
21:36
27
Viktoria Helgesson
SWE
47.84
21.83
27.01
28
Natalia POPOVA
UKR
47.42
24.30
23:12
29
Elena Glebova
EST
46.19
22:59
23.60
30
Isadora WILLIAMS
BRA
40.37
18.93
21:44
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