The NHK Trophy, a figure skating Grand Prix series, will open in Sapporo on the afternoon of the 18th.
It is expected that the Japanese teams, who have achieved good results in the Grand Prix series this season, will join the battle for the top ranks in this tournament as well.
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The fifth round of the Grand Prix series, the NHK Trophy, will be held in Sapporo for the first time in three years this season.
The tournament will start in the afternoon of the 18th, and on the first day, the men's and women's singles and pairs short programs and the ice dance rhythm dance will be held.
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, who won the silver medal at the World Championships in March this year and won the Grand Prix series for the first time as a pair of Japanese players at the Canadian Games last month, will participate in the first event, the pair. To do.
In practice on the morning of the 18th, Kihara performed a big twist lift to throw Miura up.
In the women's singles practice, Kaori Sakamoto, who won the bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics and won the world championship this year, Rinka Watanabe and Rion Sumiyoshi, who won the Grand Prix series for the first time at the Canadian Games last month, were ice. I confirmed the feeling of
Among them, Sakamoto, who is aiming for the third consecutive victory in the tournament, played the song of the short program and confirmed the steps that he focused on polishing this season.
The tournament will start at 18:00 on the 18th.