Wednesday, January 27, 2016

We are being taken. Russian Singles unsuccessfully started the European Championship – Soviet Sport

If the start
 the first day of the European Championship, when
 Three Russian girls pushed in
 all other short program
 participating in the tournament, it was very
 positive, the continuation of turned
 crumpled. Only Maxim Kovtun,
 occupies an intermediate runner
 after the Spaniard Javier Fernandez in the competition of men, there is no
 claims. Two other Russian
 sculler, Mikhail Kolyada and Alexander
 Petrov, started the championship very
 mediocre.
 

Transform axel

What
 was launched in the second form
 Wednesday the European Championship – competition
 men’s short program – you can,
 of course, be called sad for us
 coincidence. Because
 things might be different.
 

Alexander
 Petrov could now borrow tenth
 place, and, for example, six, had jumped
 flip with right rib, tripped
 Steps on the track and held on to rotation
 to the maximum, the fourth level
 difficulties. And also
 if Championships
 Europe worked the same judge as in
 Russian Championship. In Ekaterinburg
 Petrov received for the same rental 81.61
 points, while in Bratislava five to 77 cents.
 Long live the Russian judges, the most
 fair judge in the world.
 

Michael Kolyada
 could now be a ninth and confident
 third, if not dropped from the quaternary
 sheepskin, which still can not acquire
 at least relatively stable form, and
 another would triple axel, which
 Problems like he never existed.
 It is clear that the debut at the European Championships
 - It is always difficult, but before Michael was like a stress tolerance
 sportsman.
 

Maxim Kovtun
 would in any case, as it is now
 the second, but if I did not fall from the axel,
 he would have scored almost a hundred points. Maximally
 I have approached the grandmaster
 abroad, subdued in the same day
 for the first time in the career of Javier Fernández.
 

However, to
 Kovtun no complaints: he reworks technique
 this same axel, which is often not
 obtained recently, while
 the task to occupy the right place confidence
 performs. And quaternary do -
 short program at European Championship
 Salchow and fulfilled perfect coat.

Performed
 even Yorick

But the two
 Russian skater other tasks are not
 perform. Because European Championships
 declared one of the most important launches
 even season to him
 athlete out on peak form. If
 One says that due to poisoning
 fully prepared for
 the start of three days and the second no
 It does not say, but in connection with two torn
 jump elements and everything is clear
 - Something in all this is wrong.
 

Failure
 the same set of circumstances for the Russians
 is that almost every
 of those who could make them at least
 semblance of competition, played on Wednesday
 in the short program maximum. Frenchman
 Florent Amodio, Belgian Yorick Hendrix,
 Italian Ivan Rigina Israelis
 Alex and Daniel Samohin Bychenko yes
 Even Czech Michal Brezina – it’s not
 those people who have to “carry” Kolyada
 and Petrov points after the short program.
 But they carry. And suddenly
 a situation in which the accounts
 worry about the possible loss of the third
 Rooms in the application for the next championship
 Europe. If suddenly the two best Russians
 gain on the sum of more than 13 places, it is
 happen.

A
 still have to worry about that
 at the World Cup again, there is a risk
 return to a situation where Russia will
 represent only one skater.
 Because such short Rental
 program that
 Kolyada that
 Petrov in Boston may
 did not qualify in
 arbitrary. By the way, is
 Depending on what will be completed in
 Thursday arbitrary program Gorda
 Gorshkov, Sergei Voronov and Konstantin
 Menchov would be worth to think twice about
 full participation in the Cup final
 Russia – I think the question whom to send
 number two on the world championship together
 Kovtun may be
 not rhetorical.

***

Not
 I want to finish the story of the first
 day of the European Championship on a sad
 note, so a few words about performance
 the man who became his main character.
 Javier Fernandez is not just set
 personal achievement, typing in a short
 program 102 and a half points. He has
 and signaled Yuzuru Hanyu – that calm
 life he will not. After Xavi seriously
 I was mistaken for one of the two quads
 hops that in cascade. Without this
 Error estimate Fernandez would tangibly
 close to the record scores Japanese. But also
 so impressive.
 

The only
 not impressed – this is what the Spaniard
 I spoke to actually empty
 tribunes. The dynamics of filling the hall on
 Ondrej Nepela arena name is not very
 clear. On Wednesday, for example, at the first
 part of the competition – when riding
 girls – stands were filled
 decent enough. But in the speech
 guys fans from Bratislava reason
 I did not go, and in the evening
 Fernandez (as well
 Kovtun, Kolyada and Petrov) watched from
 force fifteen hundred spectators.

European Championship. Bratislava

Men

After the short program

1. Javier Fernandez (Spain) -102,54

2. Maxim Kovtun (Russia) – 88,09

3. Michal Brezina (Czech Republic) -84,30

… 9. Mikhail Kolyada (Russia) – 77,58

10. Alexander Petrov (Russia) – 76,95

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