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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2015 1:40:29 GMT
Last spring, this young French team, who hadn't cracked the top ten at Worlds the year before, beat out several established duos to become World Champions in ice dance. Their fans - myself included - called it a triumph of artistry and innovation. Their detractors pointed to every small technical deficiency, noting all the ways in which the team's lack of top-level experience let them down. As a result, everyone who follows ice dance has looked to this season's results to prove whether Papadakis and Cizeron really are the next big thing in ice dance, or if last season was a fluke, fueled as much by other teams' mistakes as by this pair's brilliance. Just as we were gearing up to see their debut, Papadakis fell and hit her head. With new and necessary protocols for concussion treatment in place, the World Champions had to sit out the Grand Prix so she could recover. A dull autumn of ice dance ensued, with most of the established teams in holding patterns and no young upstarts breaking through as Papadakis and Cizeron did last year. Technically, this program showcases their strengths but doesn't quite hide the issues that make some fans really cranky about this team. Most dance teams are willing to sacrifice speed and close holds in order to get their footwork just right, but Papadakis and Cizeron take the opposite approach. They build more difficulty into their footwork than most teams do, but they miss edges or lose synchronization as a result. On the other hand, their twizzles and lifts are so phenomenal that their competitors should be racing back to the drawing board. In their rotational lift, he's basically doing a two-footed sit spin while she holds her body at a 90-degree angle from his chest. Their twizzle sequence contains choreographic features that keep them turning in time with the music, and they somehow exit their last twizzle in side-by-side spirals without careening into the boards. Their difficult elements are the most dramatic and unique in ice dance right now, and this performance has me convinced that they're still the best in the world.
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Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2015 1:23:57 GMT
The success was never questioned as the clear favorite of the eve Evgenia Medvedeva , after having dominated the short program , was also repeated in the longest segment of the race taking the lead abysmal competition. In this regard, the numbers do not lie and speak of a clear supremacy at the technical level and superiority of each item of the program components. The sixteen-year-old Muscovite has confirmed an almost infallible machine ringing the fifth segment of the race season without the slightest burr. Even in the free program today's pupil Ethers Tutberidze has comfortably completed two double axel and seven triples, slipping the most of every landing and performing most of the jumps with one arm raised. All this is even greater impression when you consider how the strength is represented by the flexibility and variety of positions on the elements of spinning top. That said, has not gone unnoticed by the generosity of the panel of judges in terms of degree of implementation and evaluations of the components of the program, however, it made for the usual context of race. Medvedeva preceded by twelve points over almost seventeen Elena Radionova , he outclassed the quality of execution of each element. The pupil of Inna Goncharenko has, in any case, unsheathed the best seasonal performance while continuing to not be flawless landings of jumps. Clearly, the ability, the result of great perseverance, to be able to take home the difficulties between two double axel and seven triple jumps remains one of the main strengths and has again played a key role. On the lowest rung of the podium has accommodated a convincing Anna Pogorilaya , back to the glories of the Mordovian Ornament of October. Lasciatasi behind a Grand Prix colorless, the seventeen year old coached by Anna Tsareva conducted two trials with no burrs highlighting a speed higher than the top two. Even Pogorilaya has comfortably completed two double axel and seven triple exhibiting one of the best triple lutz in competition and limiting in some way by the flawed triple flip. FINAL STANDINGS 01) Evgenia Medvedeva 234.88 (1 | 1) 02) Erena Radionova 222.57 (2 | 2) 03) Anna POGORILAYA 214.30 (4 | 3) 04) Polina TSURSKAYA 205.46 (5 | 5) 05) Maria SOTSKOVA 201.32 (8 | 4) 06) Adeline Sotnikova 197.98 (6 | 7) 07) Julia LIPNITSKAIA 195.24 (3 | 10) 08) Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA 194.74 (9 | 6) 09) Alena LEONOVA 190.32 (7 | 9) 10) Serafima SAKHANOVICH 178.33 (12 | 11) 11) Alice FEDICHKINA 177.47 (14 | 8) 12) Maria Artemieva 171.46 (11 | 12) 13) Diana PERVUSHKINA 171.11 (10 | 13) 14) Catherine BAIANOVA 157.49 (15 | 14) 15) Alexander SAIUTINA 154.11 (17 | 15) 16) Maria PEREDEROVA 147.32 (13 | 17) 17) Evgenia Ivankova 144.57 (18 | 16) 18) Alina Karavayeva 143.52 (16 | 18)
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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2015 2:08:01 GMT
Bronze medalist of the World Championship Elena Radionova called performance at the championship of Russia for her best this season. The athlete was second in the tournament. - I knew I needed to go out and skate clean, and I did - leads the "R-Sport" word Radionova. - I am very pleased that I was able to gather. It was my best start. Confidence and clearer than at the stage of "Grand Prix" in Moscow. Physically it was harder today than it was then. The Russian Championships - always one of the most difficult starts on emotions and forces, as it takes place in the end of the year, when you do not have time to recover from the other tournaments. It is difficult to gather. I am very glad that a New Year comes, I will fly to Moscow. When I came to the final "Grand Prix" in Barcelona and realized that I had even grown. I always measure our growth with the mom, if I had grown up to it yet or not. Here I come after the final, and it turns out that I am exactly one centimeter higher than her mother. A little upset. Of course, I want to be 1.67 meters tall - is perfect, but in any dress was not enough. Breathing becomes difficult, so we have to change it a little.
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2015 2:09:28 GMT
Renowned choreographer summed up the Russian championship in figure skating - Ilya, competition in women's figure skating in Yekaterinburg gathered a huge number of enthusiastic epithets. But the Olympic champion lost ... - What three places in the national team will qualify for a huge number of girls, it was clear. It was clear also that riding on the level would be sensational. My forecast for the first and second place was justified. I said that for the gold and silver will fight Medvedev and Radionova, since Tuktamysheva and Adelina Sotnikova has not scored form. And Julia Lipnitskaya is disassembled. The fact that in the fight for third place won by Anna Pogorilaya for me a definite surprise. I still thought that Adeline wins bronze. - Many noted that after moving to Sochi with Alexei Urmanova there have been positive developments in Lipnitskaya's skating. - I think Julia grew little thin, brought myself up, this is a significant effect. It physically just not ready to skate the long program, but the first results are visible and work - for example, it did in any program triple lutz with a raised arm. Teach new elements, this is a very good sign. Another thing is, it turns out that Julia is the second season in a row misses European and world championships. Of course, it is a young girl and did not prevent it in the next year, going all the making, once again claim a place in the team, but now talk seriously about the impact of a new coach soon. Less than a month is nothing you can not really have time to do. Rather, now it is the emotions that cause any change. And further it depends on it. Julia talented person, she was very much trained, and she must determine for themselves what is more important for her - just to live or to be the leader of figure skating. - That ice dance Elena Ilyina and Ruslan Zhiganshin not included in the top three, losing half a point Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin, not everyone seemed fair. - It is a sport, and if you make a mistake, you lose. Season has not developed them. Ruslan stupid mistakes on the "Grand Prix" in Moscow, and now Lena. It does not matter. But I think that it is not necessary to despair completely. Do not fall for the European Championship and the world - to prepare well for the next season. I am sure that the gate to the national team open to them. The guys are talented, have zamateret, and this matter should help them. By the way, Victoria Sinitsin and Nikita Katsalapov last year, too, will not hit, but coped with it and now entered the national team. I do not think they will be forces to fight for the top three in the World Cup, but they will be next. - What do you wish skaters for the New Year? - Half of the season behind us, much has been done. Now the most important thing - work program, to clean them, to prepare for the main starts. But no luck, no twist of fate at the global level will be difficult to win. Therefore, in addition to the skills and everything else, I wish that fate was smiling and our children, and each one of us. Team members at the European Championships Women - Evgeny Medvedev, Elena Radionova Anna Pogorilaya. Men - Maxim Kovtun, Mikhail Kolyada and Alexander Petrov. Dancing - Ekaterina Bobrova - Dmitry Solovyov, Victoria Sinitsin - Nikita Katsalapov, Alexander Stepanov - Ivan Bukin. Couples - Tatiana Volosozhar - Maxim Trankov, Yuko Kawaguchi - Alexander Smirnov, Xenia Stolbov - Fedor Klimov.
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2015 1:38:02 GMT
On Sunday, December 27 the composition of the Russian national figure skating, which will go to the European Championship, was announced. Outside of the national team remained one of the most famous Russian figure skaters - Julia Lipnitskaya. The athlete, who replaced coach, took seventh place in the championship of Russia, which took place in Yekaterinburg and now in fact miss the remainder of the season. - Someone asked Julia that perhaps the case in the lack of a ride on the competition. But we have in this short time, despite the large number of changes, and rolled a short and free program often enough. Just for the optimum state at this stage we did not have at least two weeks. And to better the month - the coach said athletes Alexei Urmanov, commenting on the results of the competition. The very same Julia, who for the second year in a row did not compete at the European and world championships, can not find the cause of his failure, telling reporters: - I expect, frankly, that nothing at all skated. Actually nothing was not ready. I sat in the room before the start, and I wanted to cry and run away. I know that I have something to do with the moral background in any program. Just worried, I did not seem to know how and what to do. I do not know what I'm afraid. Really I can not understand. Whether I am afraid that I will not do something, or that fail someone. However, experts still continue to believe in Julia, noting that the first major tournament under the new coach athlete skated well: - After Lipnitskaya passed to Urmanova, it appeared a spark in his eyes, we see it. Julia does not dokatat any program, but elements of it to finish. Just three weeks they (with Urmanov) work, and it looks better. She has the best hand, the best steps. The short program, she stepped up, - said the famous coach Tatiana Tarasova in an interview with the agency "F-Sport". Now, after the failure of the championship of Russia, Yulia Lipnitskaya tries to return to the national team only a year later, when again will be collected on the national championship team to participate in the European championship. With the strongest of which are selected for the World Cup. So far the plans Lipnitskaya Julia and her new coach Alexei Urmanova - participation in competitions of the Cup of Russia, which will be held later in Saransk.
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