Figure Skating - Free Skate - 2014 Sochi
After the exciting short program yesterday viewers Iceberg Palace in Sochi were expecting a deadly battle of stratospheric scores, but this did not happen. In the beautiful Russian plant has reigned the tension that has affected all of the top athletes in the fight for the medals. The Olympic race is historically a race in its own right, but that was enough to win the coveted gold a free 180 little nobody would ever have expected the day before, especially after the fireworks yesterday.
Friday 14 February 2014 7 minutes reading time
'' The student Brian Orser, dancing to the tune of "Romeo and Juliet", has completed a discrete program with some smudges that had suddenly opened a door to rival Chan.
The Japanese opened the program with a fall on the quadruple Salchow, saving however the rotation, with a triple flip with step-out that earned him another fall and tainting the combination 3LZ-3S-1The landed on two feet, thereby defeating the points of the combination passed in sequence. The chave time for victory was a great quadruple toe loop combination and a triple Axel - triple toe loop applause that allowed the nineteen Sendai to score 89.66 points technician. The second score was defended at best compared to Chan, losing only two points (90.98) the result of a dynamic interpretation and brilliant.
When everything seemed ready for a Canadian overtaking here is the twist. Patrick Chan, great pre-race favorite, dancing to the tune of "The Four Seasons", has ruined his performance with two big mistakes on the Achilles' heel this season: Axel. The twenty-three of Ottawa has closed with triple step out and has only doubled shortly after, which, combined with the barb in landing the quadruple toe loop did not allow him to go beyond the technical score of 85.40 points which has in fact canceled the good 92,70 on the components, obtained with a panel considerably more severe than 24 hours ago.
It closes then in the worst way for a four-year beautiful Chan then not winning the coveted Olympic gold, only a lack of enviable palmares.
If gold was to fight for the bronze two was merciless battle with Dennis Ten man from big events to prevail. The twenty year old Kazakh, author of the free third with 171.04 points, rose to the top thanks to a free program well-executed free of major flaws, Axel dubbed separately. The vice world champion in office thus confirms the podium of the great annual event, after an extremely disappointing season and undertone.
The day is mocked by Javier Fernandez. The Spaniard, third after the short program, also has botched the triple Axel, Lutz rounding the combination of running and only the second triple quadruple Salchow planned. All this has prevented him from getting on the podium despite a more than decent second score.
Fifth and sixth place for the Japanese duo Machida-Takahashi, both from the technical point of view undertone. Completing the top ten Chinese Han Yan, the surprise of the event Peter Liebers (239.87) even today very precise and concrete, the young American Jason Brown (238.37) and Czech Michal Brezina.
Here are the final standings:
Pl
Name
Nation
TSS
TES
PCS
=
+
+
1
Yuzuru Hanyu
JPN
178.64
89.66
90.98
2
Patrick CHAN
CAN
178.10
85.40
92.70
3
Denis TEN
KAZ
171.04
88.90
82.14
4
Tatsuki MACHIDA
JPN
169.94
88.22
82.72
5
Javier FERNANDEZ
ESP
166.94
77.80
89.14
6
Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
164.27
73.27
91.00
7
YAN Han
CHN
160.54
80.60
79.94
8
Jeremy ABBOTT
USA
160.12
78.10
82.02
9
Peter LIEBERS
GER
153.83
75.97
78.86
10
Kevin REYNOLDS
CAN
153.47
79.83
73.64
11
Jason BROWN
USA
152.37
68.09
84.28
12
Tomas VERNER
CZE
151.90
73.98
78.92
13
Michal BREZINA
CZE
151.67
75.31
77.36
14
Brian JOUBERT
FRA
145.93
69.51
76.42
15
HENDRICKX Jorik
BEL
141.52
73.88
67.64
16
Majorov Alexander
SWE
141.05
66.05
75.00
17
GE Misha
UZB
135.19
69.63
65.56
18
Florent AMODIO
FRA
123.06
49.00
74.06
19
Yakov GODOROZHA
UKR
119.54
65.12
54.42
20
Michael Christian MARTINEZ
PHI
119.44
62.58
57.86
21
Alexei Bychenko
ISR
114.62
59.96
55.66
22
RAKIMGALIEV Abzal
KAZ
110.22
53.92
56.30
23
KELEMEN Zoltan
ROU
98.35
50.27
51.08
24
Viktor ROMANENKOV
EST
78.44
32.42
48.02
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