Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu won the short program for men on the World Figure Skating Championships. The best of the Russians was located on the fourth place Sergei Voronov. Two-time champion of Russia Maxim Kovtun flunked your rental and take the first kind of 16th place.
In the short program has collected lots of more or less serious contenders for the top places in the men’s competition at the last workout. Watch this side is always interesting. But the participants themselves not to be envied: too high a voltage which many sensitive to all external vibrations of the soul simply can not stand.
That is half of applicants, as they say, crumbled. And not on the little things, and with a bang.
introduces a group of Japanese Takahito Mura enough a strong fighter and winner of more than decent result 86.28 points. But from the first element of a short program had not worked. First skater nedokrutil quad, besides wrong on the road with the jump. And he made a butterfly instead of a triple axel. With blot was performed and in the second stage of the program. As a result, Moore departed once already at the end of the second ten.
Following underachieve skated holder of the best result of the season Denis Ten. The representative of Kazakhstan fell from a quadruple toe loop, but then sang a beautiful triple axel and a good stage (albeit with a small blot on the road). However, the winner of world championships – 2013 and the Olympics in Sochi rescued a sufficiently high score for the components.
The first person in the strongest workout could one hundred per cent to cope with nerves, became three-time European champion Javier Fernandez. The Spaniard made a great quad Salchow, then a cascade, and then pulled out is not the most perfect triple axel. Prior to his best result of the season received 92.74 points Fernandes had no chance. But it was a serious bid.
Following the Spaniard came out on the ice Sergei Voronov. By how carefully the Russians began his hire, it was evident that the stress of the last warm-up, apparently, had an effect on him. But compared with other students Eteri Tutberidze managed to get rid of minimal losses, allowing only blot on the road with a quadruple jump (even referees and punished him severely enough). But then there was a very good triple axel in the second half of the program (it relies for a small premium in points) and after – triple loop.
In general, the second half of the short program turned Sergei much more powerful, fast and charged than the first one. Tenu Ravens eventually lost components. Summarized the Russians and the low level of complexity of the step sequence, which, as luck, Sergei looms on the ice as a particularly carefully.
Closes the strongest group of two, perhaps the most interesting figure skater: Olympic champion Sochi Yuzuru Hanyu and two-time champion of Russia Maxim Kovtun. Both could skate as brilliantly as well, to put it mildly, not very.
Hanyu this season – a living example of how heavy and clumsy life idol burdened with a number of obligations and expectations.
Even last season, it was obvious that Olympic victory in Sochi – not the crown of a career, but only the beginning of a long journey. Potentially Yuzuru should grow into a superstar on a colossal scale. This is the case when the highest authority of the National Federation combined with the outstanding advantages of the skater: talent, originality and ability to captivate the audience without any apparent effort.
On the other hand, this season on a young Japanese man fell all 33 disaster.
First, due to health problems he missed tournament in Finland, then came to his first Grand Prix and the warm-up before any program faced there with the other skaters, earning a couple of cuts and a number of much more serious injuries. Nevertheless, the skater was not given to miss the second stage of the series, and there are several artificially dragged into the final, which Hanyu, however, won.
Violence against the body was not in vain, and after the championship Japan Yuzuru again landed in the hospital and underwent surgery. And in preparation for the World Cup to the heap injured ankle. And yet, leave him to the hospital again to no avail.
To understand why Japan is struggling to own hands to kill the hen that lays the golden eggs, not so simple. But is rumored to cancel the performance at the World Cup skater can not deal with TV. And without the Olympic champion rating broadcasts in Japan plummets.
In Shanghai Hanyu complexion again gave a greenish. Nevertheless, the Japanese short program as a whole coped. Almost fell off the quadruple (but check with referees monstrous he just jump), but then gave a beautiful axel and a cascade of two triple jumps. And, of course, got his eye-popping points for components (in his case, however, is quite justified). A total of $ 95.20 points.
Maxim Kovtun had to wait until the ice rink will clear from the carpet of the intended Hanyu plush Winnie Pukhov. But do not write off is what happened next to a cute yellow teddy bear?
Rental Russians started brilliantly – a tall, brought him 16 points, a cascade of quadruple and triple toe loop. And then inexplicably skater made two butterflies and actually left without two jumps. And this in the short program, when the price of each error is incredibly high.
Again, attention is drawn to the fact that Kovtun did not even try to compete for the second quad. Others – the same or Hanyu Fernandez – penetrate into the cell and teeth, even if they fall, try to unscrew the allotted number of turns. From a mathematical point of view, under the current judging system is found to be much more profitable. Maxim on the majority of starts or luck, or a butterfly.
Kovtun eventually became the 16th and ended up in a rather large company of men, who by the sum of points in the short program virtually conceded leader Elizabeth Tuktamysheva women’s competitions. Scoff about this, of course, not worth it. But the fact is in itself interesting.
With the dream of world championship medals, which boldly announced during the season working with one of the skater professionals now have to leave. In any program Maxim simply trying to climb as high as possible. Otherwise, the next World Cup Russia is once again likely to remain with a man-singles skater.
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