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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2021 18:59:53 GMT
Team Tutberidze skater Daria Usacheva injured herself in the warm up for the short program at the 2021 NHK Trophy. The injury is the third fracture in recent months for the students of celebrated coach Eteri Tutberidze. As usual, all of Russian figure skating has weighed in.
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2021 20:03:39 GMT
Earlier, Japanese Kaori Sakamoto was first in the women’s short in Tokyo.  She skated after the only Russian in that field, 2020 World junior champion Daria Usacheva, withdrew after falling in warm-ups. Usacheva had flown to Japan in pain and, after the fall, was diagnosed with a fractured hip, according to Russian TV. Later, the Russian Figure Skating Federation reported that Usacheva suffered an upper leg injury on the fall that wasn’t considered a long-term injury. A press release did not mention a hip fracture.  Sakamoto, the top Japanese woman at NHK after national champion Rika Kihira‘s injury withdrawal, skated clean with a triple flip-triple toe loop combination for 76.56 points. Another Japanese, 17-year-old Mana Kawabe, was second as one of four women to attempt a triple Axel (and the only one of those to land it clean). Americans Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn were fourth and sixth. Liu, a two-time national champion, fell on her under-rotated triple Axel. Glenn, the 2021 U.S. silver medalist, had her triple Axel downgraded. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2021 22:09:52 GMT
According to Match TV, the preliminary diagnosis of the Russian figure skater Daria Usacheva was a trochanteric fracture of the hip. Earlier, Match TV reported that the 15-year-old figure skater flew to the Grand Prix stage in Japan, experiencing pain in the groin area.  Daria fought for a long time with damage to the muscles of the back of the thigh, but the injury allowed her to train in a moderate mode. Before the start of the Japanese stage, the problem with the hip and pain in the groin area seriously worsened, as a result of which the athlete was unable to complete the 6-minute warm-up before the start of the short program in Japan and was forced to withdraw from the tournament. A preliminary examination after the performance revealed a trochanteric fracture of the hip in the skater. The timing of the restoration of Usacheva is unknown. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2023 18:50:59 GMT
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