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Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2019 20:11:42 GMT
Miyahara’s expressive program to 'Schindler’s List' by John Williams and 'Prelude in C sharp minor' by Sergei Rachmaninov featured a triple Lutz-triple toeloop combination, two more clean triple jumps and difficult spins and footwork. Three jumps were under-rotated, though. Miyahara ranked third in the Free Skating with 142.27 points, but overall held on to second place at 211.18 points. Satako Miyahara (JPN), placed second after the Free Skating, heads to Russia for next week's Rostelecom Cup © International Skating Union “Today I felt my body very good, better than yesterday. But I was still trying too hard at the end of the program,” Miyahara shared. “My next Grand Prix is in Russia next week. This is the first time for me to do two Grand Prix in a row and I am excited about that, but also need to take care of my body,” the two-time World medalist said.
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2019 20:43:51 GMT
THE DANCE The reigning World silver ice dance medalists, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, claimed top spot in the rhythm dance, outscoring their American rivals by a comfortable margin. Sinitsina and Katsalapov earned Level 4s for the twizzles and rotational lift in their solid Quickstep and Foxtrot set to “Singin’ in the Rain,” but the Finnstep pattern, the step sequence and the midline step sequence were graded Level 3. Nonetheless, the Russian duo earned a season high score of 85.39 and danced into the lead with five points to spare. Katsalapov said they were happy with their performance, “but as always there is lot of space to improve the dance. Indeed, we were missing competitions a lot. We had quite a big break — almost a month. We worked very hard and trained every day and we couldn’t wait to come here and show what we worked on.” Madison Chock and Evan Bates earned a Level 4 for the straight-line lift and Level 3 for the step sequence in their performance to “Too Darn Hot” with the tricky Finnstep pattern graded Level 1. The American team sits in second with 80.34 points. “We performed our program very well, the best so far I’d say, in our competitions. There are some technical things that we need to go back and check on when we get home,” said Chock. Canada’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sørensen were the only team of the day to earn a Level 4 (and four YYYY) for the Finnstep pattern. They also earned a Level 4 for the rotational lift, with the other elements in their “Bonnie and Clyde” program graded a Level 3. The duo finished third with 78.41 points. “It is our first time at Cup of China and it was very nice to break the ice with the short dance we love to do,” said Fournier Beaudry. “It was our first Grand Prix medal at Skate America and we were extremely excited. I think it really opened some doors, some new possibilities for us and brought us more together. We want to skate as well as we can in this competition and I think we did our job today.” Shiyue Wang and Xinyu Liu of China finished fourth with 74.77 points, ahead of their Montréal-based training mates Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker of the U.S. (74.70 points).
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2019 21:00:16 GMT
Russian skaters Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov have danced to the first Grand Prix gold of their career after delivering a marvelous emotion-laced performance at the Cup of China. The passionate love story told in their free dance hypnotized spectators as well as the strict judges, who placed Sinitsina and Katsalapov ahead of their main rivals Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the USA in the final protocol. Skating to the ‘Song My Mother Taught Me’ by Antonin Dvorak, the Russian duo staged a true spectacle on the ice taking up the roles of the loving couple. Despite several errors which didn’t go unnoticed by the judging panel the Russians managed to retain the lead taken after their stunning rhythm dance to celebrate their first ever Grand Prix victory.
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