Figure Skating - Autumn Classic International 2016
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It grows the & rsquo; waiting for the debut season of Yuzuru Hanyu, who, for this & rsquo; year, has decided to spend most of the month of autumn in Canada, where it will stop & agrave; until a few days before departure to Nagano, site of the NHK Trophy, the last leg of the Grand Prix scheduled in late November.
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It & rsquo; perci & ograve; changed the strategy than in previous seasons, that except mishaps, had been opened by the participation in the Finlandia Trophy Espoo.
The first release will happen & agrave; Barrie, resort & agrave; s & rsquo; Ontario that from time immemorial linked its name to the figure skating and that will & agrave; home of & rsquo; Autumn Classic International, event now in its second edition and downgraded to mere competition level B after the Challenger Series circuit Isu.
The competition, hosted by & rsquo; Allandale Recreation Centre, will represent & agrave; for the Olympic champion a sort of dress rehearsal to two weeks from & rsquo; appointment with Skate Canada, stage of Grand Prix ever won in the past. In this sense, the & rsquo; only investment dates back to 2013, when the previous round, held in Saint John was dominated by Patrick Chan, who preceded of almost thirty points the Japanese.
A Barrie, established for over forty & rsquo; years of the popular & ldquo; Mariposa School of Skating, l & rsquo; student of Brian Orser is cimenter & agrave; for the first time in the race in the new free program, choreographed by Shae Lynn Bourne to the tune of the song & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Seimei taken from the soundtrack of Japanese film Onmyouji. & Nbsp; In terms of the short program, the decision & egrave; It was to revive the & ldquo; Chopin Ballade no.1 & rdquo; with choreography of trusted Jeffrey Buttle, creator of the masterpiece to the tune of "Parisienne Walkways" gi & agrave; He entered fully into the history of the discipline.
Filed a season conditioning in three revealing negative physical problems, Hanyu, announced in full health, seems willing to raise the level of & rsquo; rod, increasing the rate of its technical programs. In terms of the short, l & rsquo; & egrave idea; to present in the first half & agrave; a triple axel preceded and followed by the moon and back quadruple toe loop in the second half before closing elements of jump combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, completed for & ograve; with low percentages in the recent past.
It appears, however, much more & ugrave; intriguing project for the free program as the & rsquo; objective becomes to present three quadruple jumps and seven triples, including two axel. Base Value & ndash; 95.79 (4S, 4T, 3F, 4T / 2T * 3A / * 3T, 3A / Lo / 3S *, * 3lo, 3LZ *) The value of steps, spins and choreography sequence amounts to 15,90. The 'asterisk indicates the jumps performed in the second half & agrave; of music. At the moment, the international scene, only the Chinese Boyang Jin aims to present a program with a higher base value (4LZ, 4S, 3A, 4T / 2T *, 4S *, 3LZ / * 3T, 3F / Lo / 3S *, 3lo *), for a total of 100.45 with a value of steps, spins and choreographic sequence of 15.6 (obviously assuming the highest level available).
In the race of Barrie, Mancher & agrave; all''appello Denis Ten, at first among those registered, but it will match the seventeen Canadian Nam Nguyen, a training partner of Hanyu, the Americans Sean Rabbitt and Alexander Johnson, l & rsquo; Argentine training Canadian Denis Margalik and l & rsquo; Italian Maurizio Zandron.
The almost twenty-three Bolzano started in spring a technical collaboration with renowned Dough Leigh, director of the Mariposa School of Skating and mentor to many Canadian stars of the past including the Brian Orser. & Nbsp; However, because of a recent ankle injury, might opt ​​for simpler programs than the original plan. For Zandron, who later this month will & agrave; engaged in & rsquo; Ice Challenge in Graz, l & rsquo; & nbsp goal season; for the short program & egrave; to run triple axel, triple Rittberger preceded by step and combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, while in terms of the free program & rsquo; & egrave idea; to present two double axel and seven triples, including two axel.
Hanyu aside, l & rsquo; & Autumn Classic International will agrave; Other features of interest.
In the junior men's competition, will & agrave; at the start of the promising student Orser Jun Hwan Cha, great hope Korean recovering from a step-load, cause physical problems, in trying to internal selection for the Junior Grand Prix held in August.
In the senior women's race, spotlight is on & rsquo; emerging Kazakh Elizabet Turzynbaeva, convincing second place in the United States International Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City. Fifteen stationed in Canada will have & agrave; face the US Amber Glenn, Angela Wang and Tyler Pierce, as well as & eacute; Japan's Haruka Imai, who won at home two weeks ago Tohoku / Hokkaido Regional Championship.
& Agrave not fail; Quality & agrave; in the race for the pairs of art as & egrave; announced the presence of the reigning World Champions Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford, but there will be & agrave; the debut of the new Canadian couple composed of Ashley Bell and Rudi Swiegers. In the field of high-level participants, are among the other Americans Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran, fellow training Duhamel / Radford, and Canadians Brittany Jones / Joshua Reagan.
In the dance, there will be & agrave; the debut in an international event of the new Canadian couple formed by Nicole Orford and Asher Hill, who will address & agrave; Americans Zoueva school, Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton, the Spanish Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero and Czechs Cortney Mansour / Michal Ceska.
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CALENDAR OF RACE (Italian time) TUESDAY & iacute; October 13th 23:20 & ndash; men's short program juniors 0:10 & ndash; Short female junior program WEDNESDAY & iacute; October 14th 20:10 & ndash; 21:05 Men's Free program Junior & ndash; 23:35 women's short program & ndash; Short Dance 0:55 & ndash; pairs short program of artistic 1:55 & ndash; men's short program
THURSDAY & iacute; Oct. 15, 19: 40 & nbsp; - Free program female juniors 21:10 & ndash; program free pairs of artistic 22:15 & ndash; 01:05 women's free program & ndash; free dance 2:25 & ndash; Men's Free program
Sara can follow the 'whole event in real time thanks to the live streaming made available by the Canadian federation.
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