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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2014 20:59:02 GMT
Russian teenager Julia Lipnitskaia scored a 69.56 to light up the opening day of the Cup of China Grand Prix event on Friday. Months after becoming the youngest modern skater to win Olympic gold, the 16-year-old immediately landed a triple toe-triple toe loop at the beginning of her program. "I was really nervous training and it felt like it was my first competition, so I'm very pleased with the results," she said. Trailing right behind her with 67.99 points is teammate Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who continues her hot start to the season, which includes three Challenger series event victories and a silver medal finish at last month's Skate America. 2014 Four Continents winner Kanako Murakami of Japan is in third after scoring a 60.44 on her 20th birthday. In ice dance, Skate America runner-ups Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani scored 65.20 points dancing flamenco to "Asturias Variations" and pasa doble to "The Last Corrida".
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2014 20:49:13 GMT
2013 European Championship bronze medalist Elizaveta Tuktamysheva won the ISU Grand Prix, while another Russian figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya came in second during the Cup of China held in Shanghai. Lipnitskaya led Tuktamysheva by 1.57 points after the short program on Friday, during which she looked unstoppable, hitting her triple-triple combination, double axel and triple flip, NBC Sports said. However, Lipnitskaya made a series of mistakes during her free skating program. This allowed Tuktamysheva, who showed composure and excellent skating on both days, to leapfrog Lipnitskaya and finish first with 196.60 points. Lipnitskaya scored 173.57, dropping to second place. Kanako Murakami of Japan received the bronze with 169.39 points. Tuktamysheva, 17, has already won four tournaments in a row, as well as the silver medal at the Grand Prix Skate America. By winning the Cup of China, the 17-year old Russian guaranteed herself a spot in the Grand Prix series final, which will be held in Barcelona later this year. Lipnitskaya, the miniature Russian starlet who took the world of figure skating by storm, who became the youngest Olympic champion in figure skating last year at the Sochi Olympics, made her season debut at the Cup of China yesterday. “I didn’t compete for a long time after the Olympic season,” Lipnitskaya said, as quoted by CBC News. “In training, I also was very nervous. I felt like it was my first competition in my life.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2014 21:03:04 GMT
At the Lexus Cup of China, the International Skating Union's Grand Prix of Figure Skating, there was a real humdinger of a bell-ringer between China's Han Yan and Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu in warmups. YouTube shows both men gliding backwards at concussion-ready speeds and turning into one another, chin-to-noggin, too late for either to adjust. Human pain is fun to watch, within reason, and because we're all hoping you send this post to your friends, we're going to include it here. Hashtag morbid curiosity, hashtag guilty pleasure, hashtag YOLO. The collision opened up Hanyu's chin and left him motionless for a moment. Medical folks checked him out and then cleared him for his free skate. At the 24-second mark of this video you'll note the hurried removal of the not one but two stuffed Pooh bears behind our man Yuzuru. Clearly things were supposed to turn out a bit differently. Sporting a big ol' head bandage, poor guy then went on a falling binge during his free skate routine. Whether Hanyu was addled or just rattled, it's hard to tell. Again, we offer you the video. Go ahead. Watch an injured 20-year-old suffer the implosion of his dearest dreams as he physically humiliates himself in front of thousands. It's not as if anyone will ever know what kind of warped joy you're deriving from it. Click away, modern gentleman. Actually Hanyu, the reigning Olympic champion and thus a badass of the highest order, managed to weather this debacle and finish second at the Cup. See? Happy ending. This has been figure skating news brought to you by our shared appreciation for violence and pratfalls.
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2014 21:05:39 GMT
Russian Olympic champion in figure skating, Adelina Sotnikova, will not be performing at the Russian Grand Prix series due to injuries, forcing her to miss the final series in Japan as well, her trainer Elena Buyanova told RIA Novosti. “I flew in today from China, particularly to clarify the situation regarding Adelina. Nothing completely terrible has happened, on Wednesday we have a consultation with a German doctor, after which we will be able to clarify on the healing period. But we will definitely not make it to Japan,” Buyanova said. Ну.... Что сказать... Гипс не помеха везде найду,где позаниматься ? куда деваться,теперь нужно ко всему относиться с позитивом,что я и пытаюсь делать... Но... Не всегда получается... Очень хочется уже на родной лед,одеть родные конечки... Ну ничего,скоро все будет☺️ On Thursday, Sotnikova got a foot injury, on which a cast was put. It became known that due to these injuries the figure skater is compelled to miss the Russian Grand Prix series. Sotnikova is a five-time medalist on the Grand Prix series, and a four-time Russian national champion.
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2014 20:49:53 GMT
Russian figure-skater Yulia Lipnitskaya missed the victory ceremony of the ISU Grand Prix Cup of China tournament, held in Shanghai, because she had got mixed over dates, the Russian Figure-Skating Federation said quoting Lipnitskaya as saying. The International Skating Union (ISU) has fined Russian Olympic champion in figure skating Yulia Lipnitskaya after she failed to attend the award ceremony at the Cup of China last week, ISU Vice President David Dore said on Monday. Lipnitskaya, who won her first Olympic gold at the age of 15 this year at the Winter Games in Sochi, was leading in China in ladies singles after the short program, but made some mistakes during her free skate program and as a result was left with the silver medal, while the gold went to her compatriot Elizaveta Tuktamysheva. Lipnitskaya then decided not to show up at the awarding ceremony and Tuktamysheva was on the pedestal jointly with Japan’s Kanako Murakami, who won the bronze medal of the competition. “Yes, she was fined,” Dore said. “The regulations state boldly that the participation in the awarding ceremony is obligatory. Moreover, the administration of the teams always warn about it before the start of each competition, including about the consequences for the failure to attend.” According to rules of figure skating Grand Prix events, a skater is fined for the failure to attend the awarding ceremony by cutting part of his or her prize money. Lipnitskaya earned $13,000 in prize money for the second place, however, Dore refused to name the exact amount of fine imposed on the 16-year-old Russian figure skater. “I do not know what happened. Nothing really worked. This was probably the worst skate of my life,” European Champion Lipnitskaya was quoted as saying on the ISU website after her performance in China.
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