Two-time winner of the final Grand Prix of Figure Skating, World and European champion Yevgenia Medvedeva Russian woman is going to perform a quadruple Salchow at the end of the season. This athlete said in an interview with TV channel "TV Game".
"Figure skating is not in place, you need to come up and try something new, - the 17-year-old figure skater said. Sometimes I wanted to perform something that make sense the coach is still too early, for example, a quad Salchow, I'm interested. I would like to try to end the season. " At the moment, none of the skater does not perform quad jumps at the event.
From March 29 to April 2 in Helsinki, Finland will host the World Figure Skating Championships. The live broadcast of World Cup 2017 will be presented on TV "TV Game", "Match! Arena", "Eurosport" and "Eurosport 2".
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Ashley Wagner‘s four-year plan has her peaking in 2018, not at the 2017 World Championships, but many call Wagner to carry the U.S. women at worlds in Helsinki next week.
“Next year is the year that I am, like, in it to kill,” she said. “This year is maintaining. This year is my chance to work out all of the kinks, figure out where I want to be mentally going into next year.”
Wagner, the 2016 World silver medalist, is the only skater of three American women on this year’s worlds team with prior worlds experience. She is the only one ranked higher than 20th in the world this season.
Normally, figure skating is an individual sport. But next week, the top two U.S. women’s results must add up to no greater than 13 (Wagner places third, and either U.S. champion Karen Chen or U.S. bronze medalist Mariah Bell places 10th or better, for example).
Evgenia Medvedeva closed in on a second world figure skating title Wednesday by taking the lead in the short program.
The 17-year-old Russian skated flawlessly and scored 79.01 points, a result only bettered by Medvedeva at December’s Grand Prix finals.
Medvedeva, who is unbeaten since November 2015, can become the first woman to win back-to-back world titles since 2001 if she holds on to her lead in Friday’s free skate.
”I’ll try to show everything I can do in the free skate,” Medvedeva said.
Canadians trailed Medvedeva, with Kaetlyn Osmond second with 75.98 points and Gabrielle Daleman in third with 72.19.
Osmond, in her first world championships since 2014, put her success down to a more focused approach.
”I was just loving every minute of it and completely in the moment,” Osmond said. ”I know how to deal a little bit more with the excitement, and hopefully I can just stay that way for the long (program).”
Javier Fernandez led the men's event at the figure skating world championships on Thursday and eclipsed his personal best score from winning the European title in January.
The two-time defending champion from Spain skated an immaculate short program to the tune of "Malaguena," landing a quadruple toeloop-triple toeloop combination, plus a quad salchow, for 109.05 points.
Men Short Program Press Conference
That was within two points of Yuzuru Hanyu's world record.
Japanese skater Shoma Uno was second with 104.86 points, and three-time world champion Patrick Chan of Canada in third on 102.13.
Facing fierce competition from athletic teenage skaters such as Uno and U.S. champion Nathan Chen, comparative veterans Fernandez and Chan said they were happy to show they still have what it takes to compete.
Russia's Evgenia Medvedieva became world champion by winning the free skate with a world record - 154.40 points. Earlier athlete was the best in the short program. Following two programs, she also broke the world record, gaining 233.41 points.
Recall that the 17-year-old athlete was at the World Championships in Boston last year and became the champion.
The second place in the two programs was ranked by Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond - 218.13. The leaders were followed by her compatriot Gabriel Daleman with an overall score of 213.52.