Magia Gelada - Patinagem artística : outubro 2017

terça-feira, 31 de outubro de 2017

GP Taça da China - Transmissão televisiva

O Grande Prémio ISU Taça da China terá honras de transmissão televisiva nos canais Eurosport. Felizmente, desta vez, todas as disciplinas terão cobertura.

Plano de transmissões

Canal Eurosport 1

Dia 03-11-2017

16h15 - Programa curto feminino

23h30 - Programa curto feminino

Dia 04-11-2017

15h30 - Programa livre feminino

22h30 - Programa livre masculino

23h30 - Programa livre feminino

Dia 05-11-2017

10h30 - Programa livre masculino

11h15 - Programa livre feminino

12h15 - Exibições de gala

Canal Eurosport 2

Dia 03-11-2017

07h30 - Dança curta em directo

09h00 - Programa curto feminino em directo

10h45 - Programa curto masculino em directo

13h00 - Programa curto de pares em directo

14h15 - Dança curta

17h00 - Dança curta

18h00 - Programa curto feminino

19h00 - Programa curto masculino

20h00 - Programa curto feminino

Dia 04-11-2017

00h30 - Programa curto masculino

01h15 - Programa curto feminino

08h00 - Programa curto feminino

08h30 - Programa livre feminino em directo

10h30 - Programa livre masculino em directo

12h45 - Programa livre de pares em directo

14h30 - Dança livre

17h00 - Programa livre feminino

18h00 - Programa livre masculino

19h00 - Programa livre pares

20h00 - Dança livre

Dia 05-11-2017

09h00 - Programa livre feminino

09h30 - Programa livre masculino

10h00 - Dança livre

15h30 - Exibições de gala

00h00 - Exibições de gala

Galeria de imagens de Carolina Kostner

Carolina Kostner

(Itália)

Galeria de imagens de Virtue & Moir

Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

(Canadá)

domingo, 29 de outubro de 2017

Notícias - Anna Pogorilaya

A patinadora russa Anna Pogorilaya tem estado a viver um período difícil. A vice-campeã da Europa na temporada passada foi dispensada dos testes oficiais da federação russa, que decorreram em Sochi em Setembro, devido a uma lesão nas costas. A primeira aparição de Anna na corrente época ocorreu numa competição local na Rússia, onde ela apenas realizou o programa curto. A justificação para a desistência dessa prova foi precisamente a tal lesão nas costas. No passado fim-de-semana, Anna competiu no GP Skate Canada onde as coisas não lhe correram de feição, sendo que consta que a lesão nas costas foi agravada depois de uma queda aparatosa na entrada para um peão durante a execução do programa livre.
Mas o que mais tem chamado a atenção dos fãs é a tensão entre a patinadora e a sua treinadora Anna Tsareva. É que no GP Skate Canada foram colocados microfones bem junto do local onde os patinadores aguardam as notas dos programas. Depois do programa livre nessa prova, ouviu-se praticamente todo o diálogo entre Tsareva e a sua pupila e não foi bonito...
Do que eu consegui perceber e das transcrições que li entretanto li na internet, Anna Tsareva foi super dura e não mostrou qualquer apoio à patinadora. O tom do diálogo entre as duas foi passivo-agressivo e algo azedo. Resumidamente, Tsareva atirou expressões como "parece que estás sempre a morrer", "tu tremes tanto" e "tu patinas como se estivesses morta". Anna respondeu à treinadora que esta a perturbou quando ela estava a tentar preparar-se. Tsareva não se fez rogada e disparou qualquer coisa como "podes ir à próxima competição sozinha". Esperemos que o clima arisco entre as duas seja apaziguado.

Vídeo com esse diálogo

sábado, 28 de outubro de 2017

GP Skate Canada 2017

*Note: I will write a few lines about this GP as soon as I can. Please comeback during the week*

Ladies

Short Program

Kaetlyn Osmond

Anna Pogorilaya

Maria Sotskova

Courtney Hicks

Karen Chen

Rika Hongo

Ashley Wagner

Laurine Lecavelier

Kailani Craine

Marin Honda

Alaine Chartrand

Larkyn Austman

Free Program

Kaetlyn Osmond

Maria Sotskova

Marin Honda

Ashley Wagner

Courtney Hicks

Rika Hongo

Karen Chen

Laurine Lecavelier

Kailani Craine

Anna Pogorilaya

Alaine Chartrand

Larkyn Austman

Final Result

Men

Short Program

Shoma Uno

Patrick Chan

Jason Brown

Alexander Samarin

Keagan Messing

Jorik Hendrickx

Michal Brezina

Takahiko Mura

Nicolas Nadeau

Paul Fentz

Jun Hwan Cha

Brendan Kerry

Free Program

Shoma Uno

Jason Brown

Alexander Samarin

Michal Brezina

Jorik Hendrickx

Nicolas Nadeau

Patrick Chan

Jun Hwan Cha

Brendan Kerry

Keegan Messing

Paul Fentz

Takahito Mura

Final Result

Dance

Short Dance

Virtue & Moir

Weaver & Poje

Hubbell & Donohue

Smart & Diaz

Hawayek & Baker

Loboda & Drodz

Soucisse & Firus

Lorenz & Polizoakis

Kaliszek & Spodyriev

Agafonova & Ucar

Free Dance

Virtue & Moir

Hubbell & Donohue

Weaver & Poje

Hawayek & Baker

Loboda & Drodz

Soucisse & Firus

Smart & Diaz

Lorenz & Polizoakis

Kaliszek & Spodyriev

Agafonova & Ucar

Final Result

Pairs

Short Program

Savchenko & Massot

Duhamel & Radford

James & Cipres

Zabijako & Enbert

Ilyushechkina & Moscovitch

Denney & Frazier

Peng & Jin

Kolodziej & Deschamps

Free Program

Duhamel & Radford

James & Ciprés

Savchenko & Massot

Zabijako & Enbert

Peng & Jin

Ilyushechkina & Moscovitch

Denney & Frazier

Kolodziej & Deschamps

Final Result

quinta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2017

GP Skate Canada 2017 - Transmissão televisiva

Boas notícias para os fãs de patinagem artística em Portugal pois o canal Eurosport 2 vai dedicar algumas horas de programação à transmissão do Grande Prémio Troféu Skate Canada 2017. O ideal seria a transmissão integral da prova mas quem quiser ver pela TV vai ter de se contentar com isto.
Claro que fica a promessa de tentar reunir o maior número de vídeos disponíveis desta competição no post no blogue que será publicado sobre esta prova.

Previsão de transmissões:

Dia 27-10-2017

20h00 - Programa curto feminino - Directo
22h00 - Dança curta - Directo

Dia 28-10-2017

02h00 - Programa curto feminino - Diferido
08h15 - Programa curto feminino - Diferido
17h00 - Programa curto feminino - Diferido
18h00 - Programa livre feminino - Directo
20h15 - Dança Livre - Directo
23h15 - Programa Livre feminino - Diferido

Dia 29-10-2017

20h00 - Gala

quarta-feira, 25 de outubro de 2017

GP Rostelecom Cup 2017

*Still on the works. More stuff will be added to this post along the week. I hope you can understand that.*

And the senior grand prix events are finally back :)

Skate America traditionally is the 1st event of the ISU GP circuit but this season the order of the events was altered. That said, this season the Rostelecom Cup was the 1st GP to take place. Together with the NHK Trophy, the Rostelecom Cup is my favorite GP because there's always a big crowd supporting the skaters. Usually, the russian tv provides a very good coverage. This year was no exception. Unfortunately, the portuguese fans that rely on Eurosport to watch figure skating on tv were left with almost nothing. Eurosport Portugal hardly broadcasted anything which was a pity.
And before babbling a bit about the actual competition, let me share a fun fact with you: Julia Lipnitskaya and Elena Ilinykh worked as commentators for a russian tv channel. Julia was quite impressive as a commentator. Maybe she'll do this kind of stuff again.

Ladies

Carolina Kostner (Italy), Evgenia Medvedeva (Russia), Wakaba Higuchi (Japan)

Evgenia Medvedeva claimed gold at the ladies event which was hardly a surprise. The two-time world champion made quite a statement right away by scoring 80.75pts in the Short Program. Evgenia almost beat her own record score of 80.85pts that she got at the 2017 World Team Trophy. Her SP was magnificent. Evgenia never stopped working from start to finish and looked comfortable in the program. The russian prodigy looked weightless. It was like everything she did was easy. I was really impressed with her short program and so were the judges who rewarded her with huge component scores, including three perfect 10.00 (one for performance, other for composition and another for interpretation). Technically she was spot on and managed to collect +GOE in every element. All jump passes were done in the second half of the program. Her jump layout consisted of triple flip+triple toe loop combo, triple loop and double axel.
For the Free Program, Evgenia showed up with a new sophisticated black dress to portray Anna Karenina. This is a very good program with good choreo and interpretation but to be honest I much prefered the free she skated at the russian test skates and at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy. Off course that "Anna Karenina" is more accessible to a wider audience and maybe this was the right decision for the Olympic season. However the big surprise of Evgenia's performance wasn't the choreo nor the elements she did right... She fell on the double axel which was the last jump pass of the program. Despite this unusual moment for her, Evgenia seemed unafected by the mistake. In fact her reaction at the end of the program was super cute. It just shows how mentally strong she must be. In what concerns the jump layout she showed in this performance, it's pretty much the same Evgenia did last season. The triple flip+triple toeloop combo and the triple lutz in the first half of the program. In the second half she did the triple flip, triple loop, double axel+double toeloop+double toeloop combo, triple salchow+triple toeloop and the failed double axel. Despite the mistake this was enough to grant her the 4th highest ever score in a free program. By the way, componentes wise, Evgenia got three 10.00 (one for performance, one for composition and another for interpretation).
Carolina Kostner, the 2012 world champion, managed to get the silver medal and melted fans hearts. The italian is in a stage of her career in which she is above competition. Yes she didn't even attempt the lutz but overall her programs looked clean. Artistically she's immaculate. Probably the best of the current field. Just watching her glide is a delight for anyone who loves pure skating. Honestly I would love her to qualify for the Grand Prix Final. In the Short Program, Miss Kostner got two scores of 10.00 - one for composition and another one for interpretation. However judge n.º 5 only marked her 8.75 for composition which left me a bit puzzled. In the free program, judge n.º 7 gifted her a 10.00 for performance.
Wakaba Higuchi got her second senior GP medal and went home with the bronze. She did well in both programs. In the short program Wakaba showed a lot of fire. The opening double axel was very good. Nevertheless, the triple lutz+triple toeloop and the triple flip were dinged with negative GOE. In the combo, the triple toeloop was underrotated. The flip got a not clear edge call. In the free program, there was only one element punished with negative GOE: it was the double axel+double toeloop+double loop combo. There was also another error. She turned a planned triple salchow to a double. Thumbs up for the triple lutz+triple toeloop in the second half of the program and the choreo sequence. As a side note, I wish she could get rid of the black gloves in the free program costume. It cuts the lines and it looks weird. That's my opinion.
Elena Radionova is still wonderful to watch but the technical glitches cannot be ignored. In the short program, where she managed to finished in 5th place, Elena underrotated the toeloop in the triple lutz+triple toeloop combo. In the triple flip there was a call for not having a clear edge. In the free program, there were the exact same problems in the triple lutz+triple toeloop combo and in the triple flip just like in the short. The triple lutz+loop+triple salchow was a nice combo but the execution could have been much better. She had planned a triple loop as element number 9 but she fell right on the entry. Needless to say that she didn't get any points for that. We all know she's a great performer but she needs to fix flip and not look sloopy in the certain jumps.
This was the first time Elena finished out of the podium in a GP since she turned senior.
Final notes: Mirai Nagasu attacked the triple axel in both programs but both were underrotated. Valeria Mikhailova was a pleasant surprise. There are so many talented russian girls coming out of the junior ranks that it is hard to keep up with all of them. Valeria did very well in her début in the senior GP. Very entertaining and full of personality despite the young age and the pressure of skating in front of the home audience.

Short Program Videos

Evgenia Medvedeva