Beijing 2022. Figure skating. Ekaterina Kurakawa fighting for a medal

Ekaterina Kurakawa It was an easy start on the short program – our team had a triple heart at the start of the show, But she got up quickly and was practically flawless after that. With a score of 59.08 points, she took 24th place and was able to advance to the next stage of the competition.

Due to the fact that the skaters presented the free program in the opposite order to the places they had previously taken, the penultimate in the short program, 19 years old, appeared in second place on Thursday.

Katya – as Kurakawa calls her in a narrow way – lent herself to the music from Charlie Chaplin’s “Ramp Light”, and her show turned out to be very successful – in fact, it ran almost flawlessly. “Honey, you made it!” – she said right after getting off the ice to the camera, By becoming your partner. There was so much emotion on the teenager’s face

The skater received a total of 126.76 – 66.24 points for the technical elements, and the entire presentation was rated at 60.52 points. Thus, besides the short program, Kurakawa had 185.84 points on his account.

In the singles final, 25 competitors will present themselves as the last to ride complete and yoghurtagainst the recent doping scandal.

Russian women took first place in the short program She is one of the favorites to win the gold medal.

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