Golden couple: Mishina and Gallyamov return to the top
Before the Chinese Grand Prix, it seemed that Alexandra Trusova was the favorite in her kind of program, while Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov were more likely to claim silver. But life reasoned the other way around. In pairs, we won our first Grand Prix gold in five years, and the women's gold was a disappointing defeat. Alexandra's second place was compensated by the successful performance of the Russian singles: Vladislav Dikidzhi and Evgeny Semenenko were among the top three.
Work for a credit card
Before analyzing the girls' ratings, it is impossible not to bow to Tamara Moskvina's couple — although they were nervous, saving the jumps, they reached the first place, beating the Olympic silver medalists from Georgia Anastasia Metelkina./To Luka Berulava. We were beaten due to the mistakes of our opponents in the short program, but it doesn't matter. After difficult recent seasons, injuries, quarrels in the frame and delays with a neutral status, they again show their corporate identity — reliability. Yes, classical music, without serious experiments in programs, but stable. There is almost no technique against such scrap.
Now for the women. Alexandra Trusova lost the Chinese Grand Prix, despite two almost perfect programs. How did it happen and what was missing? First of all, time. In figure skating, no matter how unsportsmanlike it may sound, athletes, like students, work for the test, and previous rentals really affect subsequent ones. If you are already well—deserved, shone in front of the judges and won medals at major tournaments, you already have several points in reserve. Not necessarily in the components, but they can also be added to jumps and spins. Monae Chiba from Japan almost missed out on an Olympic medal, she has a fresh silver at this year's World Championships.
Trusova lost to Chiba all the small difference in points in the components, that is, in the much more subjective part of the assessment. The difference was 3.21 points, and in two programs, the Japanese woman outperformed Alexandra in presentation, presentation and skating by as much as six points. Her free program can also be called piercing, airy, she knows how to ride on the ribs, shows choreography, but...
Chiba is definitely not Kaori Sakamoto or Satoko Miyahara's skating skills. Her short program in the image of James Bond leaves more puzzled questions than an enthusiastic impression. Especially with a mistake on a double axel. And the opponent of the 21-year-old Japanese woman was not a 15-year-old bouncing girl, but Trusova, who also has programs. Therefore, yes, the components are developed over time, and the Russians have not been abroad for 4.5 years, while Chiba was glowing at the top. Everything is logical, but the sediment remains.
If you look at it from the other side, then there was a lack of a second quadruple or a certain risk in the technical aspect of the program. For example, it would be possible to move the double axel to the first part of the program, and put a more complex triple flip at the end — this would bring a few more tenths. But it would be accompanied by a serious risk in terms of physical readiness and safety net in the event of an error on one of the cascades, which would force a redesign of the program.
Yes, if the loss is in components, the quick solution is to cover it with such an advantage of technology that it will be impossible to win back with a rating. But for now, Alexandra doesn't consider it necessary to force the complication, and she's probably right. She rolled two quads in training and showed it on video. But two second places will be enough to qualify for the top 6 and the Grand Prix finals. In the USA, Adelia Petrosyan, Japanese Ami Nakai and Korean Yong Yu will be waiting for her. Therefore, it is possible to complain about the judicial conspiracy and the suing of the Russian woman, of course, but within the framework of the established practice of figure skating, everything is logical.
The most expensive jumps
According to the results of the short program, our skaters had excellent chances for a medal. Vladislav Dikigi performed a cascade of quadruple lutz + triple toe loop, quadruple salchow and triple axel without falling, scored 98.86 points and became the fourth.
Evgeny Semenenko was right in front of him: he performed a clean quadruple Rittberger, a cascade of quadruple salchow + triple toe loop and triple axel. The judges rated the Russian's performance at 99.72 points. Only two Japanese were higher: Kao Miura (102.90) and Shun Sato (101.97).
Olympic champion Mikhail Shaidorov, who took fifth place in the short program, could potentially prevent him from competing for medals. However, of all the quads, the representative of Kazakhstan landed only a flip. He touched the ice with his hand on the sheepskin coat, a serious step-out happened on the lutz, but a risky 4-4 cascade from the sheepskin coat and salchow almost succeeded, but the exit failed. The result is 168.62 points for the rental, a total of 263.49.
Dikiji was the next to take the ice. He made only one mistake: he made a step-out on a quadruple lutz, which opened the program. Then it was much more confident. Vladislav jumped cleanly with a quadruple flip, two quadruple salchow (one of them in a cascade) and two triple axels (separately and in sequence). The program was rated at 183.53 points. The total is 282.44.
Semenenko spoke next. Evgeny started rolling with the pure fours of Rittberger, sheepskin coat and Salkhov in the cascade. There was only one mistake on the single quadruple salchow — I went to minus, but I stayed on my feet and did not fall. In the second half of the program, the Russian jumped two gorgeous triple axels and showed a perfect spin. He failed to beat Dikigi — 281.62 points according to the results of his performances.
There were only two Japanese left to wait. Shun Sato definitely pleased the Russians: He ruined two of the most expensive jumps. I made a butterfly on the fourth lutz. There was also a mistake on the cascade of the quadruple sheepskin coat + triple sheepskin coat. As a result, only 277.20 points. Thus, even before the last performance, both Semenenko and Dikigi knew for sure that the two of them would rise to the podium.
He completed competitions in men's single skating Miura. Only he could deprive Vladislav of gold. Unfortunately, the Japanese did it.: Kao performed all the most expensive jumps. Among them are two quadruple sheepskin coats and a quadruple salchow, as well as two triple axels. The points for the program are 190.35. The total is 293.25.
Miura becomes the winner of the ISU Grand Prix stage in China. But Russia has two medals at once: silver by Dikigi and bronze by Semenenko. Excellent result.
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