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Voloszhar Tatiana and Maxim Trankov, imbattutti last season, have dominated the short program at the Nebelhorn Trophy, becoming the first couple in history to break down the wall of the eighty points.
Thursday 26 September 2013 5 minutes reading time
Cross the threshold of sixty points in a short-program has always meant to be a pair of high artistic level, while going over seventy points has always been synonymous with the combination of excellent caliber. On the ice of '"Eislaufzentrum" of Oberstdorf, the defending World Champions have gone far beyond, where no one ever thought averebbe, and far surpassed the threshold of eighty lengths.
The stratosferisco 81.65 reached in short today was the result of a performance of rare, if not unique perfection, in which each element was performed in parallel with incredible unison and lift and death spiral, triple twist and spinning were carefully studied to reach the highest level available. Considering the time of year, the performance of the students of Nina Mozer has even more of the sensational and, barring injury, portends another season in one direction.
Volosozhar / Trankov preceded the German pair composed by Wende / Wende (61,00), which, finally stored atavistic physical problems, have drawn his best career performance, enhanced by a good triple flip launched. Now, to make a further leap in quality, the neo-spouses stationed in Oberstdorf must enter on an ongoing basis the triple twist in their programs, as opposed to what happened today.
The third place went to beginners Canadian Purich / Tran (56.71), already firmly on the piece, despite having started skating together only at the beginning of spring. The greatest difficulties were encountered, as expected, on triple toe loop in parallel and triple twist, but the impression is that the students of Richard Gauthier are destined to become in quick times the third Canadian couple behind the currently unreachable Duhamel / Radford and Moore-Towers/Moscovitch.
With regard to the pursuit of the four places available for the Olympic Games, the first segment of the race he smiled, in accordance with the prediction of the vigil, the British Kemp / King (51,33), which preceded the Japanese Takahashi / Kihara (49,42), appeared in improvement over the Lombardy Trophy last week, the Ukrainians Usmantseva / Talan (47.50) and Austria Ziegler / Kiefer (45,69). At the moment, the first would be excluded Estonians Zabjako / Zaboev (45,08), the Poles Klatka / Chruscinski (43,65) and Koreans Pak / The Song (42,53), but the gaps remain low and at the end of the program are not free from distortions of eslcudere ranking.
The expected Bestandigova Turkish / Mansiz (33.14) finished the test in nineteenth and last position, especially paying duty on the components of the program. However, given the lack of experience of the former striker of Turkish football, the performance was far more than decent.
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