Figure skating - Japan Open 2015
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The tenth edition of the Japan Open & egrave; He was literally dominated by the hosts, who have inflicted detachments abysmal competition.
Saturday 3 October 2015 11 minutes reading time
In the great joy of the public come at the Super Arena in Saitama, Japan closed the seventh successful nell''abituale event of early autumn and, nell''occasione, & egrave; He succeeded in establishing itself both in men and in the women's over sixty points ahead of North America and almost eighty the 'Europe. As evidence of superiority un''evidente & agrave; Team, Japanese skaters won three of the four rotations with margin of race.
As usual, the competition & egrave; open with the men's free program.
The best of the lot & egrave; One was Shoma, took to the track for last with the 'objective of ensuring leaderhsip provisional Japan with 167.09 points at the time needed. The 'still seventeen Nagoya has to & ograve; I decided to do things in style showing off a stellar performance in the final, accompanied by a well-deserved standing ovation. Everything & egrave; earned him the beauty of more than 185 points, feedback exceeded by a select few in the top-level competitions (Chan, Hanyu, Fernandez, Ten). The notes of Puccini's Turandot were valued by a technical content of absolute excellence, which says a lot about the ambitions of the junior world champion in office ready to make his mark in the major category. One, impeccable of spins and steps, reached almost a hundred points of TES (total score elements or vulgarly technical score) allowing himself the luxury of completing two quadruple toe loop, one of which in combination with a double toe loop in the second half & agrave; of music, seven triple jumps, including two axel, and a double axel, in the opening of the non-trivial combination closed by euler and triple flip. The program, compared to what we saw in the US Figure Skating Classic two weeks ago, & egrave; total raised and not surprisingly, besides the usual moon to precede the first triple axel, have seen more & ugrave; transitional passages.
One Javier Fernandez gi & agrave; rather ball scored the second overall score, containing the gap to one in less than ten points. The Spaniard unveiled the new free program choreographed by David Wilson on the notes of the soundtrack of the musical "Guys and Dolls" (Guys and Dolls) removing the satisfaction to precede Patrick Chan on the sum of the components of the program for the first time in his career.
The 'expected Canadian Patrick Chan, the protagonist of the last edition, has confirmed that it is still far from the best condition paying duty compared to those who' preceded on elements of jump. The vice-Olympic champion missed the 'appointment with the quadruple toe loop, opening jump of his trial, and, thereafter, & egrave; He managed to save with his teeth the triple axel. Dropped physically in the second half & agrave; music, fouled some landing too resting his hand on the ice.
The American Jeremy Abbott, in the midst of a season sabbatical, & egrave; He managed to keep up with Chan getting the fourth score and outclassing the Japanese Daisuke Murakami, betrayed by a bad day on the triple axel, and French veteran Brian Joubert, who retired from racing for some time and perci & ograve; not able to keep up with today's qualifying competition.
The highlight in the women & egrave; It was represented by the return to competition of Mao Asada after eighteen long months of absence from the challenge and with the 'emerging compatriot Satoko Miyahara. The comparison between the technical dall''elevato 'athlete pi & ugrave; old in the race and that most & ugrave; young has dominated the twenty-five three times world champion, appeared in conditions of brilliant form. Asada has superbly interpreted the notes of Puccini's Madame Butterfly getting the best assessment of each item of the program components and also the technical score more & ugrave; high. In the opener, it completed a remarkable triple axel adding along the way other six seven triple jumps, including two flip. Triple axel in part, the two highlights of the performance today was the combination triple flip / triple Rittberger and above the triple lutz not taken from a wire inside markedly as in the past
The seventeen Miyahara not & egrave; He was outdone and carried out a test without flaws during which he completed two well-double axel and seven triple jumps, including two lutz. The convincing vice-world champion & egrave; He managed to keep up the technical side of Asada amassing seven points gap on the sum of the components of the program. It should be noted that, unlike the latest releases, the program was opened by the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop put into storage in the second half of last season to avoid problems of rotation.
The tandem Japanese preceded the Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Adelina Sotnikova, quest''ultima absent from the international racing scene for over nineteen months. & Nbsp;
The 'student of Alexei Mishin, not yet in top condition, has not wanted to learn to present a "program conservative" and ready way, attempted a triple axel, concluded for & ograve; with a fall. For the rest, it has two well-executed double axel and five triple jumps, riununciando only the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop closed for choice by a double toe loop.
Olympic champion, however, opted for a more choice & ugrave; conservative down the track with the 'intention to run two double axel and six triple jumps. In the end, than planned, have failed a triple Rittberger, open in flight and completed single and combination axetriplo double toe loop runs only twice. On the positive side, in addition to a combination double axel / triple toe loop, placed in the second part of the program, progress was un''elevata quality & agrave; skating and a good execution of the elements of spinning top, left in disappears in recent tests carried out because of back problems.
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RANKING JAPAN OPEN
1) 607.62 - GIAPPONE2) 545.23 - NORDAMERICA3) 528.90 - EUROPE
STANDINGS MEN
1) JPN - Shoma A 185.48 (99.48 | 86.00) 2) ESP - Javier FERNANDEZ176.24 (86.60 | 90.64) - 1,003) CAN - Patrick CHAN159.14 (69.56 | 89.58) 4) USA - Jeremy ABBOTT 153.72 (69.28 | 84.44 ) 5) JPN - Daisuke MURAKAMI145.77 (68.63 | 77.14) 6) FRA - Brian JOUBERT105.51 (36.65 | 69.86) - 1:00
CLASSIFICATION FEMALE
1) JPN - Mao ASADA141.70 (71.88 | 69.82) 2) JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA134.67 (71.70 | 62.97) 3) RUS - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA128.34 (64.61 | 65.73) - 2004) RUS - Adelina SOTNIKOVA118.81 (52.70 | 66.11) 5) USA - Ashley WAGNER117.84 (56.17 | 62.67) - 1006) USA - Gracie GOLD114.53 (51.57 | 64.96) - 2.00
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