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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2019 21:58:04 GMT
Russia’s “quad queen” Alexandra Trusova took back her throne and with it her second Grand Prix gold medal at Rostelecom Cup on Saturday. Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva earned the silver and Mariah Bell (USA) took the bronze, her second on the circuit this season. Skating to “Games of Thrones”, Trusova missed her opening quadruple Salchow but recovered instantly to reel off a quadruple Lutz, quadruple toeloop-triple toeloop, quadruple toeloop-Euler-triple Salchow as well as a triple flip and double Axel. However, the also fell on the back end of her triple Lutz-triple loop combination. The two-time World Junior Champion collected a level four for her spins and footwork and scored 160.26 points. The 15-year-old racked up 234.47 points total and overtook overnight leader Medvedeva to take the gold. “I am very happy to have won my second Grand Prix event and to have qualified for the Grand Prix Final. However, I made some mistakes in short and free program and I’ll continue to work to skate two clean programs next time,” Trusova said. “I would like to compete with the men, because they can do a quad in the short program and we are not allowed to. Also, it would be interesting to compete with skaters that do many quads in the programs,” she added.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2019 0:02:03 GMT
Mariah Bell is officially having her best grand prix season ever. After finishing third at the Internationaux de France at the beginning of the month for the second grand prix medal of her career, Bell replicated the achievement on Saturday at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, winning a second bronze medal. Bell scored a combined 205.67 points, trailing only Russian teenage sensations Alexandra Trusova, the 15-year-old who won Skate Canada in her senior grand prix debut and landed three quads in the process, who scored 234.47, and Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, who earned 225.76. Download the Team USA app today to keep up with figure skating and all your favorite sports, plus access to videos, Olympic and Paralympic team bios, and more. Bell was third after scoring 67.11 in the short program skating to music by Britney Spears on Friday for accomplishments including a triple Lutz and two Level 4 spins. She was the second-to-last skater to take the ice on Saturday. Her season’s best in the free skate, which she performs to “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen and sung by K.D. Lang, was a personal best 142.64 in France. She didn’t quite match that on Saturday, scoring 138.56, but it was enough to put her in second place with just one skater remaining. Bell’s only grand prix medal before this season was a silver at Skate America in 2016. She’s hoping to become the first American woman to qualify for the Grand Prix Final since Ashley Wagner in 2015, but to do so must finish in the top six at the end of the sixth and final stop next weekend, NHK Trophy.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2019 20:42:55 GMT
This week, Evgenia Medvedeva, Alexandra Trusova, Mariah Bell Satoko Miyahara, Shoma Uno and Dmitri Aliev highlighted the field at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup while Gracie Gold and Polina Edmunds gave us all the feels at Sectionals. We break it all down on the latest edition of This and That.
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Post by Admin on Nov 18, 2019 3:26:47 GMT
Russian figure skating sensation Alexandra Trusova has expressed willingness to compete against male skaters, stressing that she wants to know what place she might win in a men’s event with her brilliant quad jumps. http://instagram.com/p/B4IeU5PokVk The 15-year-old who won the Rostelecom Cup on Saturday, outscoring the two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, said that she is pleased with her performance where she flawlessly landed three quads in a free program. Talking at the press conference, the world junior champion regretted that, under ISU rules, female skaters are not allowed to jump quads in short program, expressing hope that the strict rule will be changed in the near future. “Why do I want to compete against men? Because they are allowed to make quads in short programs,” she said. “I can’t say what place I can take if take part in men’s competition, because they have different scores grade, their components are calculated differently. So, that’s why I want to compete against male skaters to see what place I will take there.” Trusova made the so-called “quad revolution” in women’s skating, becoming the first athlete to successfully land two quadruple jumps at an international event.
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