Lee Hae-in in ninth place after brief program in girls’s singles
Lee Hae-in of South Korea performs her brief program in the course of the girls’s singles determine skating competitors on the Winter Olympics at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Feb. 17. Yonhap
MILAN — Lee Hae-in discovered herself simply inside the highest 10 after the brief program within the girls’s singles determine skating occasion on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday.
Lee scored her season-best 70.07 factors at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan to complete ninth within the brief program.
Lee opened her program, set to “Sirens” by Christopher Tin, with a triple lutz-triple toe loop mixture. Although she appeared to land each jumps nicely, Lee was referred to as for an under-rotation of her touchdown of the triple toe loop. She later landed her double axel and triple flip cleanly and acquired the utmost ranges on all of her spins and step sequence.
Lee had 37.61 factors within the technical factor rating (TES), which evaluates skaters’ technical proficiency, and 32.46 factors in this system part rating (PCS), which appears to be like at skaters’ artistry and choreography.
The one different South Korean in motion, Shin Ji-a, earned 65.66 factors, almost 9 factors off her season greatest, to rank 14th.
Shin fell making an attempt to land the second soar of her triple lutz-triple toe loop mixture. Shin recovered and had a largely clear program the remainder of the way in which, though she acquired Level 3, one beneath most, together with her layback spin on the finish.
She had 35.79 factors within the TES and 30.87 within the PCS.
Ami Nakai of Japan led the brief program with 78.71 factors, adopted by her countrywoman, Kaori Sakamoto, with 77.23 factors. Alysa Liu of the United States is in third place with 76.59 factors.
The free skate is about for Thursday.
