Andrey SimonenkoCorrespondent SportAll materialsThe First Channel Figure Skating Cup started on Friday in the capital of Mordovia with a jumping tournament. In the team part of the «Red Machine», which was captained by Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova, defeated the team «First Time» under the leadership of the gold medalist of the Beijing Games Mark Kondratyuk. Then, in the individual tournament, Kondratyuk took revenge by performing a unique cascade of two quadruple jumps. Then the basis was a hot topic in different sports — «Battle of the Sexes»: men competed with women. Jumps were evaluated by well-known experts in the world of figure skating according to the «6.0» system, and the weaker sex won. However, many noted the insufficiently elaborated format of the tournament, which made it a bit long. chose not to report), elements were judged according to the ISU system, and sports couples were included in the number of participants in the jumping tournament. The four objectively strongest duets in the country opened the competition. We started with throwouts. Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov took the «Red Machine» to the lead, having completed both attempts cleanly, but Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin from the «First Time» did not cope with one of the two throws. However, the Blues closed the lead after Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Gallyamov did better with their throws than Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky. .jpg» />
Russian figure skaters Alexandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky Next, sports couples performed triple twists. Usually, elite duets cope with this element without much difficulty, so here the participants had to hit the judges with «chips». For Tarasova and Morozov, this is the height and ease of throwing up a partner, for Pavlyuchenko and Khodykin — an original way out of the element, for Boykova and Kozlovsky — Alexandra's hand raised up, and for Mishina and Gallyamov — pure classics. As a result, in the competition of sports couples, «Red Machine» won with a minimal margin and received one test point. Shcherbakova goes into the gap. In the first round, they had to perform one ultra-c jump each. Either because the jumps were too «ultra», or simply because of the excitement, the participants could not give a clean attempt for a long time. Evgeny Semenenko and Adelia Petrosyan did not try too well to jump the quadruple loop, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva missed the exit from the triple axel, Sofya Samodelkina fell from the quadruple lutz, Veronika Zhilina made a “step out” on the quadruple sheepskin coat. Sofya Akatieva gives out a perfect four-turn sheepskin coat — and «Red Machine» is again in the lead.Sophia Akatieva The Saransk spectators generally looked rather indifferently at the starting part of this action. But the next group made the audience cheer up. «Kamila, Kamila» and «Anya, Anya» — the audience chanted in turn, greeting the Olympic champions who came onto the ice. The grannies who were sitting nearby, however, after this began to shout «Zhenya, Zhenya», confusing Maya Khromykh with Evgenia Medvedeva. Well, in the near future, apparently, the country's leading skaters will perform in the regions often, so the gaps will be filled. But first, Alexander Samarin and Makar Ignatov exchanged clean quad Lutz and loop. After them, the captains entered the battle. Mark Kondratyuk performed his quadruple salchow in a dirty way, but Anna Shcherbakova did an excellent job with her quadruple flip. And then Mikhail Kolyada and Andrey Mozalev beat Maya Khromykh and Kamila Valieva with quadruple sheepskin coats, after which Krasnaya Mashina took the lead in the tournament with a score of 2-0.
Figure skaters Mikhail Kolyada and Anna ShcherbakovaThe bullets decided everything. In the third round, two points were at stake, and the participants had to fight for them, performing cascades of five jumps. The “Red Machine” started again more powerful — Shcherbakova made a cascade with a quadruple flip, Ignatov — with a quadruple sheepskin coat, but Tuktamysheva after a triple axel managed to squeeze out only two jumps. Then the team of the Olympic champion strengthened its leadership after Kolyada and Mozalev coped with their cascades better than Zhilina and Samarin. His initiative was supported by Kondratyuk, who «scratched» his jumps in his signature style. Samodelkina and Akatieva, in turn, helped this chance to become more real, falling from the very first jumps of the cascade. Kamila Valieva was the last to enter the ice and she realized this chance, having received the maximum for her cascade and bringing two points to Vremya First.
Kamila Valieva The winner had to determine the tie-break, for participation in which the teams had to choose three participants. Shcherbakova, Ignatov and Mozalev performed their «shootouts» a little better than Kondratyuk, Valieva and Semenenko, and «Red Machine» won the jump tournament — 3-2. Some spectators at that moment got up from their seats, thinking that the Friday program over, but it wasn’t there — the host of the show, Alexei Yagudin, announced that fans would be given a bonus in the form of an individual jumping tournament. Here, each participant was given two attempts to perform combinations of two or three jumps (but one of them was supposed to be an oiler). The start is given, but Mishin is waiting for the finish line. cascade «quadruple salchow — oiler — quadruple salchow». The second place was taken by Valieva, and the third was Semenenko. Summarizing the first day of the First Channel Cup, it should be noted that the organizers still failed to get rid of the procrastination, which, however, is objective — if the number of participants was cut, they would certainly be offended. It is clear that this was the right of the TV company holding the tournament — especially since the jumping tournament was planned to be shown on record, and the presenter recorded some phrases several times. Another question is how much the audience in the stands managed to get rid of the idea that they are present not on the show, but on the set. Judging by some of the comments, not really. The famous coach Alexei Mishin summed up the first day best of all: when asked by journalists how he started, the professor, with his usual sense of humor, answered «I like the finish better.»