The Trophée de France took place between the 11th and 13th of November. In the ladies event, there was no surprise: Evgenia Medvedeva kept her consistency and won the event. I am going to let you just watch the programs, but you can check my comments on them in the highlights of Skate Canada.
Another lady coming from the junior ranks was Wakaba Higuchi, from Japan. She won the bronze medal here due to a great free program. She rallied back from a less successful short to a more consistent free. My favourite program is her short but the free is also quite good. Can’t wait to see how she will do this season.
Lastly, an honorable mention to a lady of the organizing country: Laurine Lecavelier. She had the 4th best short program and gave France a shot at a medal. She is setting herself to be the first French lady this year, after being behind Mae Berenice Meite. I really enjoyed her short program so I leave it here for you. In pairs, Savchenko and Massot went away with gold and the two best programs of the event score-wise. After competing in Rostelecom the previous week, they kept their riskier elements: the throw triple axel in both the short and free, despite ending up succeeding in doing a throw triple salchow instead of a quadruple.
In men, Javier Fernandez was the golden medalist. The programs were not clean but were enough for him. After competing in Russia last week, I liked the short much better now and kept my good impression on the free.
The second best short program was delivered by Nathan Chen. He has a great technical ability for jumps but the quality of the PCS is not quite there yet. If you are following the order of performances here, you will understand, because after watching Adam Rippon’s free, you say that Chen has the jumps but the performance is somewhat missing. He is still quite new to the senior scene, so it is an area he will certainly be working on. He is a great contender for the best placement of the podium if any of his direct competitors fail to deliver the technique, but I am afraid PCS-wise is not quite there yet. Finally, the silver went to Denis Ten, mainly out of consistency among both its programs: he had the third best in both performances. He seems to be getting back to his old form, delivering two good programs. I am waiting to see what he will be able to do this season.
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The second Grand Prix event was Skate Canada, so here is another post concerning the main highlights (for me) of the ladies, pairs and men’s events. Firstly, the ladies event was rather interesting. Concerning the short programs, the best, for me (and that turned out the first and second best programs in terms of marks as well) were delivered by Russian Evgenia Medvedeva and Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond.
The free programs to watch were, yet again, by this two ladies and also the one performed by Japan’s Satoko Miyahara. Medvedeva’s free program this year had a quite dramatic interpretation to it. The jumps show no problems at all, with multiple jumps being performed with an arm over the head. She commits deeply to it. Is one of those programs that you will be watching from beginning to end and that will make you feel something. She is the skater to watch if you follow the ladies event. The question will always be if any lady will be able to beat her this season.
Moving on to the pairs event, world champions Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford delivered two good programs (the best score-wise of the event) and went away with gold.
Finishing up, the men’s event. Two men stood out in this event. Firstly, the winner of the event, Canadian Patrick Chan had a remarkable short program. I will not include the video because the music is removed due to copyright, which is quite unfortunate. The program had a mistake in the triple axel (a fall), but apart from that it was a good performance.
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