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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2019 7:27:09 GMT
"She still has a lot to give" For Saarinen the most important thing was to have a whole competition in her back pocket.  - I am very pleased that the end of the week was held together. I really wasn't expecting this even though I knew I was in good shape, she says. Nice, not least because the recent seasons have been riddled with problems. The former top talent has suffered from exhaustion and overtraining in recent years. - The road has been long. Many ups and downs, but it's all been worth it. I know I still have a lot to give. I want to go ahead and show what I go for,” says Saarinen. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2019 21:05:42 GMT
Russian Alena Kostornaia, the 2018 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, landed a clean triple axel to score 157.59 points in the free program, and 234.84 overall for the women's crown. She led a 1-2 for Russia, with Elizaveta Tuktamysheva taking silver.  Teenage figure skater Yuhana Yokoi won bronze at the Finlandia Trophy on Sunday, a day after Japanese compatriot Shoma Uno won the men's title in the ISU Challenger Series event in Espoo, Finland. "I made some mistakes but I was able to stay calm," Yokoi said. "This gives me a bit of a confidence boost. It's good my first senior international circuit experience helped me find out what I need to work on," the 19-year-old said.  On Saturday, Uno claimed his first victory of the season, with fellow Japanese Sota Yamamoto taking second spot in the men's singles podium. The Finlandia Trophy is the sixth in a series of 10 events in the 2019-2020 Challenger Series. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2019 19:49:10 GMT
Lithuanian ice skaters Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius took fifth place at the Challenger - Finlandia Trophy 2019 series that ended yesterday in Finnish Espoo.  This time, Reed and Ambrulevicius received 70.61 points for the short program, and their long performance by the judge was estimated at 97.72 points. This is somewhat inferior to their personal records set two weeks ago in Oberstdorf, Germany. The amount collected (168.33) allowed Lithuanian ice dancers to take fifth place in the final protocol of the competition. If they were able to repeat their record two weeks ago (180.13), then Allison and Saulius could well count on third place. The victory in Espoo was won by the American skaters Madison Chock / Evan Bates. The winners of the 2015 and 2016 world championships won the competition, gaining a total of 198.26 points. The second place was taken by the winners of the Asian Winter Games - 2017 from China, Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu (183.09), and the winners of the gold were closed by the winners of the winter Universiade 2019 gold, the Russians Betina Popova and Sergey Mozgov (175.24). The immediate plans of Reed and Ambrulevicius are to participate in the Grand Prix tournaments in Grenoble (November 1-3) and in Moscow (November 15-17). |
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