Figure skating - Japan Open 2014
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Saturday, October 4, the & ldquo; Super Arena & rdquo; Saitama facility can accommodate more than twenty thousand spectators, sar & agrave; theater of the Japan Open, invitational event that will see & agrave; committed several star players of the present and recent past
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The 'event, now in its ninth edition, & egrave; structured in a different way than the usual race format of the discipline.
Usually, they are invited twelve skaters, equally distributed by sex, representing Japan, Europe and North America. The challenge takes place only on the free program and decrees as the winner of the team that received the highest number of points by adding up all the performance of their athletes. In fact, the competition that has pi & ugrave; elements of similarity with the Japan Open & egrave; the World Team Trophy.
The cast will & agrave; of high profile because it is made by skaters able to assert themselves in any context, except for the Olympic Games and medals in various capacities.
In addition, special features & agrave; of the event the case is not referred to "Open", the athletes will descend on the ice in business & agrave; and leading figures in the recent past. Precisely for this reason, the competition to be held & agrave; Saitama is a trait d''union only between different Olympic cycles.
Nell''imminente edition, the underdogs are up to Japan, which will be able agrave &; deploy four athletes in the prime of career. Secondly it puts the 'Europe, Julia Lipnitskaia replaced all of orphan & rsquo; recently by compatriot Anna Pogorilaya.
TEAM JAPAN & ndash; Satoko MIYAHARA Kanako Murakami, Takahiko Kozuka, Takahito MURA
TEAM EUROPE & ndash; Elena Radionova, Anna POGORILAYA, Javier FERNANDEZ, Tomas VERNER
TEAM NORTH AMERICA - Ashley Wagner, Mirai NAGASU, Patrick CHAN, Jeffrey BUTTLE
For many athletes, the Japan Open is the first competitive engagement as well as seasonal & egrave; un''importante chance & agrave; to show the new free program to the judges of the case. Among the skaters in activities & agrave; present, the only Miyahara, Walls and Nagasu have already & agrave; took part in official competitions during the season.
After twenty-four hours dall''evento main, the Saitama Super Arena, home of the & rsquo; latest edition of the World Championships, will host & agrave; an ice show called "CARNIVAL ON ICE". Nell''occasione, take to the track all the participants at the Japan Open, as well as numerous stars of the past and present including Tatsuki Machida, Nobunari Oda, Akiko Suzuki, Miki Ando, ​​Evgeni Plushenko and Meryl Davis / Charlie White.
In the past season, success in Japan & Open egrave; went to the hosts, driven by a Mao Asada in great form.
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