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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013 SPORTS

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TOKYO: Figure skaters of (L), of (C) and of Japan (R) pose for photographers during the award ceremony for the women’s singles in the NHK Trophy, the fourth leg of the six-stage ISU Grand Prix series in yesterday. Asada won the event. —AFP Japan’s Asada scores back-to-back GP wins

TOKYO: Japan’s two-time world champion at 253.16 and former US champion Jeremy Mao Asada won back-to-back Grand Prix titles Abbott at 237.41. Takahashi’s victory kept yesterday, in a warning to her archrival and alive his chance of qualifying for the Grand Olympic champion Kim Yu-Na ahead of the Prix Final. “I guess I was a bit overwhelmed Winter Games. Asada’s compatriot and by the atmosphere, which was quite tense former world champion , today,” Takahashi said. “But I managed to who is recovering from a stumbling start to show improvement from ,” he the Olympic season, took the men’s title at said. “I think my confidence has come back the NHK Trophy in Tokyo, the fourth leg of the somewhat.” He has struggled with four-revo- six-round Grand Prix series. lution jumps in recent years-crashing in the Asada, the runner-up to Kim at the 2010 short programme at Skate America.—AFP Daniel Mueller performs in Steinsoultz, .— www.redbull.com Olympics, broke her own personal best scores in the and the com- NHK Trophy results bined total, slightly closing up big gaps on the South Korean superstar’s world records. TOKYO: Results yesterday from the NHK Trophy, Reigning world champion Kim, who like the fourth leg of the ISU figure skating Grand Prix Asada is 23, has skipped the Grand Prix tour series at the Yoyogi National Stadium arena in Avalanche beat Flames due to a foot injury but is preparing to make Tokyo: her season debut at the lower-tier event Women Golden Spin in , Croatia, from Final standings December 5 to 8. “It will really be a huge 1. Mao Asada (JPN) 207.59 pts, 2. Elena to go top in Central Radionova (RUS) 191.81, 3. Akiko Suzuki (JPN) inspiration for me if I can skate together with 179.32, 4. (USA) 177.81, 5. Satoko her on the same big stage and at the centre Miyahara (JPN) 170.21 6. (ITA) DENVER: Colorado goaltender Jean-Sebastien of great attention as we did in Vancouver,” 168.95, 7. (RUS) 161.94, 8. Giguere stopped 30 shots to help the Avalanche said Asada, who also won the season-open- (USA) 141.71, 9. Elene beat Calgary 4-2 on Friday and go clear atop the ing Grand Prix, Skate America. Gedevanishvili (GEO) 129.24. Central Division.In the day’s other games, The world’s top skaters can only take part Anaheim beat Buffalo to remain the league’s in two of the six Grand Prix events each sea- Free skate only team unbeaten at home, beat New son. Going out with a 5.23-point lead from 1. Mao Asada (JPN) 136.33, 2. Elena Radionova Jersey after a shootout and Winnipeg cruised Friday’s short programme, Asada under-rotat- (RUS) 128.98, 3. Gracie Gold (USA) 114.98, 4. Akiko Suzuki (JPN) 113.29, 5. past Nashville. Colorado’s goals came from Ryan ed her opening triple axel and took off with (JPN) 111.82, 6. O’Reilly, Paul Stastny, John Mitchell and Matt the wrong edge on a triple lutz to lose some Valentina Marchei (ITA) 107.05, 7. Alena Leonova Duchene. The Avalanche improved to 13-2, join- points. But she landed four more triple jumps (RUS) 106.08, 8. Mirai Nagasu (USA) 90.70, 9. ing the 1995 Nordiques for the best 15- and marked a maximum level-four in two (GEO) 84.10 game start in franchise history. Colorado spins and one to the music of reached 26 points in 15 games, while last year it “Piano Concerto No. 2” by Rachmaninov. She Men took 29. Mike Cammalleri had two goals for the earned 136.33 points in the free skate, bring- Final standings Flames. ing her combined total to 207.59 points. 1. Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) 268.31, 2. Nobunari Her previous best free skate score was Oda (JPN) 253.16, 3. (USA) 237.41, 4. (USA) 233.71, 5. Javier Fernandez LEAFS 2, DEVILS 1 134.37 at the world championships last (ESP) 230.45, 6. (JPN) 227.22, 7. James van Riemsdyk scored on a low wrist March. She scored her best combined total of (USA) 223.35, 8. in the shootout to give the Toronto Maple 205.50 at the 2010 Olympics, where Kim set (RUS) 221.32, 9. Sergei Voronov (RUS) 221.18 Leafs a 2-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on world records of 150.06 and 228.56 points. Friday night. Cory Schneider stopped Toronto’s Russia’s 14-year-old world junior champion Free skate Mason Raymond and Phil Kessel before van Elena Radionova finished second overall yes- 1. Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) 172.76, 2. Nobunari Riemsdyk’s . Adam Henrique then fired wide terday at 191.81, including 128.98 from the Oda (JPN) 170.46, 3. Jeremy Abbott (USA) 158.63, for the Devils. Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan free skate. Another Japanese, Akiko Suzuki, 4. Adam Rippon (USA) 151.46, 5. Konstantin Bernier bested Michael Ryder and Travis Zajac placed third at 179.32 overall. Menshov (RUS) 147.75, 6. Takahito Mura (JPN) 147.25, 7. Max Aaron (USA) 147.14, 8. Javier had Bernier beat but hit the post. Schneider “I feel I have really brushed up my short Fernandez (ESP) 145.67, 9. Sergei Voronov (RUS) made a great save on Kessel during a Leafs 3-on- programme,” said Asada, who fell on a triple 141.38 1 in overtime to help force the shootout.Kessel axel in the free skate at Skate America. “But I scored on the power play at 8:12 of the third have not yet reached my target level in the Pairs period to open the scoring. Ryder tied it on his free skating.” Asada is the only active female Final standings own power-play score with 4:45 remaining in skater who has regularly executed the diffi- 1. / (RUS) TORONTO: David Clarkson #71 of the skates against the New Jersey regulation. cult 3.5-revolution triple axel. 236.49, 2. /Zhang Hao (CHN) 182.18, Devils at the Air Canada Centre on Friday in Toronto, Canada. Mason Raymond #12, Paul She has struggled with the high-scoring 3. / Cong (CHN) 171.32, 4. Marissa Ranger #15, Jerred Smithson #22, Jonathan Bernier #45 and Mark Fraser. —AFP Castelli/(USA) 168.89, 5. Haven DUCKS 6, SABRES 2 element since landing three triple axels in with 3:15 remaining in the first period. It was of the eight shots he faced over nearly 81/2 Denney/ (USA) 167.85, 6. Paige Ryan Getzlaf had three goals and an assist in Vancouver. But her success rate has been the most goals the Jets have scored in a period minutes. Marek Mazanec, making his NHL debut Lawrence/ (CAN) 153.55, 7. the first period, linemate Dustin Penner also improving this season. “I want to land two since March 1, 2012, when they had five against after being called up from of the Anastasia Martiusheva/ (RUS) scored four points, and Anaheim remained the (triple) axels in the free skate. I believe I have Florida. Tangradi’s goal sent goalie Carter AHL on Nov. 5, turned aside 21 of the 23 shots 145.37, 8. / (JPN) NHL’s only unbeaten home team. Getzlaf got his room for improvement in technical aspects.” 136.13 Hutton to the bench after he stopped just five he faced. —AP first career hat trick before the first intermission Asada qualified for the December 5-8 as the league-leading Ducks (14-3-1) trounced Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, Japan, which Free skate the league-worst Sabres (3-15-1) for their sev- brings together the top six finishers in each 1. Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) enth win in eight games overall. Frederik NHL results/standings category in the series. In the men’s free skat- 154.46, 2. Peng Cheng/Zhang Hao (CHN) 117.09, Andersen made 25 saves and improved to 5-0 in ing, Takahashi, only fourth at Skate America, 3. /Simon Shnapir(USA) 110.29, 4. Toronto 2, New Jersey 1 (SO); Winnipeg 5, Nashville 0; Colorado 4, Calgary 2; Anaheim 6, Buffalo 2. /Brandon Frazier (USA) 109.18, 5. his NHL career as Anaheim won its seventh opened his long programme with a clean Sui Wenjing/ (CHN) 101.19, 6. straight at Honda Center. Mikhail Grigorenko Western Conference Eastern Conference quadruple toeloop. Atlantic Division /Rudi Swiegers (CAN) 100.77, 7. scored his first two goals of the season for the Pacific Division But the 27-year-old under-rotated another WLOTLGFGAPTS Tampa Bay 11 4 0 51 37 22 Anastasia Martiusheva/Alexei Rogonov (RUS) Sabres, who finished their three-game California quadruple attempt in his next element. Anaheim 14 3 1 63 44 29 Toronto 11 5 0 50 37 22 96.40, 8. Narumi Takahashi/Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) road swing with back-to-back losses. Ryan Miller 9 5 3 43 45 21 Skating to a medley of Beatles tunes, he went 86.59 San Jose 10 2 4 59 36 24 stopped 28 shots in the first two periods while 9 5 1 42 29 19 on to nail two triple axels and four triple Phoenix 11 4 2 56 53 24 8 8 1 44 38 17 dropping to 2-11. Vancouver 11 5 2 52 46 24 jumps, touching the ice once in landing. Ottawa 6 6 4 50 49 16 Los Angeles 10 6 0 45 40 20 Florida 3 9 4 32 57 10 Takahashi, who lifted the Olympics bronze 1. /Charlie White (USA) 73.70, 2. Anna JETS 5, PREDATORS 0 Calgary 6 9 2 47 61 14 Buffalo 3 15 1 33 61 7 medal and the world championship gold in Metropolitan Division Cappellini/ (ITA) 64.58, 3. Maia Ondrej Pavelec made 41 saves and Bryan Edmonton 4 11 2 42 66 10 2010, dazzled with steps and spins, hitting a 11 5 0 49 38 22 Shibutani/ (USA) 63.09, 4. Elena Little scored twice as the beat the Central Division maximum level-four in most of them. He Colorado 13 2 0 50 27 26 Washington 9 7 0 53 44 18 Ilinykh/ (RUS) 61.35, 5. Piper Nashville Predators 5-0 on Friday night. Olli NY Rangers 8 8 0 35 43 16 marked the highest free-skate score of 172.76 Gilles/ (CAN) 55.20, 6. Tanja 10 2 4 56 43 24 Carolina 6 7 3 30 45 15 Jokinen, Eric Tangradi and Devin Setoguchi also St. Louis 10 2 2 50 33 22 points, only 2.3 points better than compatriot Kolbe/ (GER) 52.39, 7. Cathy NY Islanders 6 7 3 47 51 15 scored for Winnipeg. Andrew Ladd, playing in Minnesota 9 4 4 45 38 22 . Reed/Chris Reed (JPN) 51.91, 8. Victoria New Jersey 4 7 5 30 44 13 his 550th NHL game, and Blake Wheeler each Nashville 8 6 2 37 49 18 Columbus 5 10 0 36 44 10 Takahashi finished on top with a com- Sinitsina/ (RUS) 44.34. —AFP Philadelphia 4 10 1 22 42 9 had two assists and Jokinen had one. Little, Dallas 8 6 2 44 47 18 bined total of 268.31 points, followed by Oda Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the Jokinen and Tangradi each scored in the first Winnipeg 7 9 2 45 51 16 standings and are not included in the loss column (L). 8:23 of the game, and Setoguchi made it 4-0

Lee opens World Cup season with a win

CALGARY: World record-holder Lee Sang-Hwa of won the season-opening Speed Skating World Cup women’s 500m on Friday in 36.91sec. On the same Calgary Olympic oval where she set the world record of 36.80 in January, Lee beat ’s Jenny Wolf (37.14) and ’s Wang Beixing (37.40). It was the first of two women’s 500s scheduled for the weekend, which marks the first World Cup stop of a 2013- 2014 season highlighted by the Sochi Olympics in February. Germany’s Claudia Pechstein, the 41-year-old who is aiming to add to her stash of nine Olympic medals in Russia after serving a doping ban, won the women’s 3,000m in 3:59.04 ahead of reigning Olympic champion Martina Sablikova of Czech Republic (3:59.39). Pechstein, who has denied doping and said her positive TOKYO: Second-placed Chinese pair Zhang Hao (L), Peng Cheng (2nd L), third-placed test for irregular levels of red blood cells was due to her Chinese pair Sui Wenjing (2nd R), Han Cong (R) and winners Russian pair Tatiana natural genetic makeup, notched the 30th World Cup win Volosozhar (C/L) and Maxim Trankov (C/R) pose for photographers during the awards of her career. Dutch skaters swept the day’s two men’s : Lee Han-Bin of Korea (C), Charles Hamelin of Canada (L) and John Henry ceremony of the pairs event in the NHK Trophy, the fourth leg of the six-stage ISU fig- races. Ronald Mulder won the 500m in 34.41sec and Koen Krueger of US compete during the men’s 1500m Final B at the World Cup Short Track ure skating Grand Prix series in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP Verweij won the 1,500m in 1:42.78. — AFP Speed Skating event in Turin yesterday. — AFP