Two-time Olympian Jeremy Abbott won the 2011 Cup of China.
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“This win is wonderful”, Aaron said after his free skate. If I was going to do that, why train so hard?
Auxier hopes this weekend will draw more spectators both loyal and new to the sport. “I can’t wait to see where I can go in the future”.
Three weeks ago, Gilles and Poirier won gold at an worldwide event in Bratislava.
The 17-year-old Uno is the world junior champion. I’m learning how to up my mental game, up my components. “I want to do whatever it takes to be the best”.
As for the quad, Brown said adding it is a process.
Ross Miner finished seventh in the 12-man field.
There was more for the crowd to shout about as Madison Chock and Evan Bates took the lead in the ice dance with a score of 70.56. “America is very lucky for us”.
With the world championships taking place in her native Boston from March 28 to April 3, Gold will be determined to get the season back on track after stumbling to last in the six-skater Japan Open.
Sui and Han scored 133.72 points in the long skate final to finish on 202.00 and claim victory at the first event of the 2015-16 ISU Grand Prix season.
Two USA ice dance teams rounded out the top five: 2014 junior world champions Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, and Anastasia Cannuscio and Colin McManus. The result was still significant, marking their first grand prix medal. We are super happy, there’s still lots we can work on. “It’s a different kind of energy going in and hopefully this will be a trend that we’ll be ahead and skate a great long, too”.
Scimeca and Knierim were engaged in April 2014 and plan to Wednesday in June 2016. The Chinese duo finished at 202.00.
Miyahara has been working on improving that aspect of her skating this season.
Gracie Gold blows a kiss to the crowd after her performance in the ladies short program at the Skate America figure skating competition Friday, October 23, 2015, in Milwaukee.
“My goal coming in here was to do two clean performances and I’m halfway there”, he said.
“One usually burns really bright, and the other fizzles out”, Gold said. However, she surprisingly under-rotated her single jump – a triple flip – in the second half of the program.
Aaron wasn’t the only American to win a gold medal. It fell short of perfection, but it was the best free skate of the night and it put pressure on the leader, 15-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva of Russian Federation, to answer.
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.
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US bronze medalist Karen Chen and Mariah Bell were fifth and eighth in their grand prix debuts.
