On the 25th, the all-Japan championship of figure skating, which also serves as the representative selection for the Beijing Olympics, will be held in Saitama City, where free dance in the second half of the women's single and free dance in the second half of the ice dance will be held.
If you win the women's single, the representative will be decided
Of these, the women's singles competing for the three representative slots of the Beijing Olympics will be nominated as the representative with the highest priority given to the winner of this tournament.
The Japan Skating Federation will make a comprehensive decision on the remaining two slots based on the results of this tournament and the international tournament.
After the short program in the first half, Kaori Sakamoto scored her best score and took the lead.
Sakamoto, who is aiming to participate in the Olympic Games for the second consecutive tournament, has sealed the challenge of triple axel and quadruple jumps this season, and chose to compete with the quality of each jump and the perfection of the performance, and steadily achieved results. I left it.
After the short program, Sakamoto, who was enthusiastic about "winning and deciding the Olympic representative in one shot," will be paying attention to whether he can keep the lead and win the unofficial decision.
The women's single is a short program in which four people from 2nd to 5th place are in a big melee with only one point.
2nd place Wakaba Higuchi and 3rd place Mana Kawabe will challenge the triple Axel to aim for a high score, while 4th place Satoko Miyahara and 5th place Mai Mihara will have a high degree of perfection and expression. I will compete with power.
Depending on the result of the free game, the ranking may change significantly.
Whereabouts of the ice dance representative frame "1" ...
The second half of the ice dance is a free dance.
For ice dance, which has one representative frame for the Beijing Olympics, the results of this competition and international competitions will be comprehensively judged and the representative will be decided.
In the first half of the rhythm dance, a couple of Misato Komatsubara and Takashi, who have won the tournament for the third time in a row, set a new personal best with a stable performance and took the lead.
On the other hand, the couple of Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi, who are in second place, are doing well, such as renewing the highest score in Japan's history at this season's international competition.
Will Misato Komatsubara and Takashi, who have been leading the Japanese ice dance world, take advantage of the lead in the first half to decide the fourth straight victory, or will Muramoto and Takahashi, who have momentum in the second year of formation, win the first victory in the reversal? , This is also a fierce battle.