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The third and final day of the forty-fifth edition of the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf opened with the Men's Free program in which the technical content were superior to the expectations of the vigil.
Saturday 28 September 2013 6 minutes reading time
Victory went to defending champion Nobunari Oda (262,98), returned to comment on levels of absolute excellence. The Japanese skater, after dominating the first half of the race, it was also confirmed in the longer segment highlighting already in late September an enviable physical condition. Furthermore, it is able to complete fluency in a combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop to stun beauty, that alone is worth the price of blglietto. Are equally highlighted the five triple jumps performed in the second half of the disc complete with a second triple axel height sidereal. Oda, as expected, got the best evaluation of each component of the program and for the first time in his career has breached the wall of the 260 points in the race.
The twenty-six of the eighteen year old Californian Osaka preceded Jason Brown (228.43), today less bright than the short-program, but the author of a convincing performance enhanced by the combination triple axel / triple toe loop and spins qualitatively superior to those of the winner .
The podium was completed by Canadian Jeremy Ten (205.56), which was easy because of the Russian Artur Dmitriev (201,74).
On the occasion, came good news for the blue team. In fact, Paul Bonifacio Parkinson, albeit with some heartache too, has failed to ensure Italy's participation in the men's race of the upcoming Olympic Games. In the free program, the twenty-two of Ottawa has maintained the position he occupied at the end of the first segment of the race, but after a rather brilliant start, fell into ruin after the combination is double axel / Rittberger / triple salchow eventually disunited and commit other obvious smudges on the elements of jump left (flip, lutz and Rittberger). So it is not like yesterday, however, the lack of quality spinners.
In addition to Parkinson's disease (184.07), have secured the place for Sochi belonging to the nation of twenty-five Ukrainian Alexei Bychenko Israeli passport (197.46), able to crumble the previous national record, the veteran Romanian Zoltan Kelemen, bravo to achieve the best performance of his career at twenty-seven years he played, the seventeen year old Filipino Michael Christian Martinez (189,46), the eighteen year old son of Art Australian Brendan Kerry (188.67) and the twenty year old Ukrainian Yakov Godorozha (188.26), representing a country that since its recent inception has always taken part in the men's competition of the festival in five circles. It should, however, remarked that never before a skater flying Philippine flag has participated in the Olympics.
They cry, however, bitter tears Polish Maciej Cieplucha (179,24) and the amazing Brazilian Luiz Manella (178,62), first excluded despite a good comeback in the longer segment of the race. In particular, the South American was able to skate the fourth free absolute recovering over ten positions.
Excellent excluded, finally, the Monegasque Kim Lucine (172,66), that, in addition to being extremely foul, has opted for musical choices rather questionable.
The thirty places available for the Olympic Games in Sochi are assigned as follows:
CANADA 3GIAPPONE 3KAZAKISTAN 2Spain 2USA 2France 2Czech CZECH 2 Germany 1CINA 1UZBEKISTAN 1Russia 1Sweden 1Belgium 1AUSTRIA 1ESTONIA 1Israel 1Romania 1FILIPPINE 1AUSTRALIA 1UCRAINA 1Italy 1
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