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Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau finish 3rd at Skate America 8:12
This is the third year in a row that this event has been hosted in the Midwest due to logistics and support, but is a first for the City of Milwaukee. “It’s my first big win in a while”. I want this to be the start of a lot of things.
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“It’s the second season that I have been using this layout of my program (putting all jump elements into the second half). I can’t wait to see where I can go in the future”.
“On the last jumping pass, the takeoff was just a little slippy on the toepick and I just didn’t commit enough to really get in and try to save it, Gold said”. “I feel I attacked it, I didn’t pull back”.
“It didn’t go exactly the way I wanted”, said Chartrand, 19. Instead of losing the points, she added the planned jumps later in the program and finished with seven triple jumps. Expectations are now on the rise as the season takes flight. Short programs are taking place today (Friday) for women, men, pairs, and ice-dancing.
Medvedeva joins a bevy of Russian stars with eyes on the World Championships in Boston in five months, including Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova, World champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, National champion Yelena Radionova and Yulia Lipnitskaya, the darling of the Sochi Olympic team event who placed seventh at Skate America.
Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim of the US lead at 69.69, Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China are second at 68.28 and their compatriots Xuehan Wang and Lei Wang are third at 64.95. The result was still significant, marking their first grand prix medal.
“We didn’t expect to win a medal so early in our senior careers”, said the 22-year-old Bilodeau. “We knew it was going to be a tough competition with the teams that were slotted to skate”.
With former three-time world champion Mao Asada making her return to competition this season, the 17-year-old Miyahara will be looking to set herself up as a challenger to the 25-year-old Japanese superstar. “It was kind of a learning experience to skate last in the long because we really haven’t done that yet”.
Scimeca and Knierim followed at 191.97.
Gracie Gold took the ice Saturday at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena to cries of “We love you Gracie!” from her prepubescent fans.
“I am not satisfied with my performance but I am happy that I was able to make the podium”, she said. “One usually burns really bright, and the other fizzles out”, Gold said. “At the beginning, it was a little harder, but now I am used to it and obviously I’m doing it to get more points”.
Three weeks ago, Gilles and Poirier won gold at an worldwide event in Bratislava. She previously finished sixth, fifth and fourth at worlds.
Medvedeva scored 135.09 points for her free skate and finished with 206.01.
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World silver medallist Satoko Miyahara of Japan was third with a total of 188.07 points, skating a sophisticated free programme to Franz Liszt’s “Un Sospiro”, which was marred by a fall on a triple lutz.