The pairs’ free skate, on Wednesday night, was the expected showdown between the US’s Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier and the current Japanese champions and reigning world silver medalists, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara.
The pairs’ free skate, on Wednesday night, was the expected showdown between the current US gold medalists and defending world champions, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, and the current Japanese champions and reigning world silver medalists, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara .
Two Americans sit in the top six going into the men’s free skate on Saturday. Even without a quad, Jason Brown made another classic of this season's short program,by his longtime choreographer Rohene Ward . In sixth place, Brown is ahead of all of the medalists at this year’s European championships and all of the Japanese competitors except Shoma Uno.
Haein Lee of Korea, Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, and Loena Hendrickx of Belgium during the medal ceremony at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships.Defending Japanese and world champion Kaori Sakamoto entered the free skate in first place, nearly six points ahead of Haein Lee of Korea, the current Four Continents champion.
Levito, Mihara, and even Lee are small, delicate skaters. Kaori Sakamoto is sturdier and more athletic, with intense speed and a fearless double axel. Her jumps have great ice coverage. All that was enough to keep her in first place over her competitors . The dominant coaches and choreographers in ice dance are Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, who, along with their colleague Romain Haguenauer, have trained many of the world’s top ice dancers at the Gadbois Centre in Montreal. Not all of them were in Saitama . Some of them have retired from competition and now coach at Gadbois . Eight of Dubreuil and Lauzon's teams were competing in Saitama.
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