{"id":23398,"date":"2013-01-25T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/volosozhar-trankov-european-title-732\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:11:05","slug":"volosozhar-and-trankov-defend-european-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/volosozhar-and-trankov-defend-european-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Volosozhar and Trankov defend European title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/volosozhar-trankov-european-title-732\/competition-skating-medals-overall.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Winners of the overall pairs competition pose with their medals on the podium at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb (Reuters \/ Antonio Bronic)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">Winners of the overall pairs competition pose with their medals on the podium at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb (Reuters \/ Antonio Bronic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s pair skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov have retained their European figure skating title scoring a season best 212.45 points in Zagreb.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s Grand Prix Finals winners perfectly executed a triple twist and some tricky lifts to score top marks leaving Germany\u2019s four-time world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy more than 7 points behind.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLast year the German pair missed the European Championships and we won in their absence,\u201d<\/em> the R-Sport new agency quotes Trankov as saying. <em>\u201cThis time the victory at the Euros is very important because we beat the best pair in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Italians Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek settled for third and their country\u2019s first pairs medal with 187.45 points.<\/p>\n<p>Friday sees the ladies\u2019 short program and the finale of the ice dance, where Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Soloviev lead after the short dance. Both men\u2019s and ladies\u2019 free skating will conclude the championships on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/volosozhar-trankov-european-title-732\/competition-skating-medals-overall.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Winners of the overall pairs competition pose with their medals on the podium at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb (Reuters \/ Antonio Bronic)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Winners of the overall pairs competition pose with their medals on the podium at the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb (Reuters \/ Antonio Bronic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Russia&rsquo;s pair skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov have retained their European figure skating title scoring a season best 212.45 points in Zagreb.<\/p>\n<p>Last month&rsquo;s Grand Prix Finals winners perfectly executed a triple twist and some tricky lifts to score top marks leaving Germany&rsquo;s four-time world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy more than 7 points behind.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Last year the German pair missed the European Championships and we won in their absence,&rdquo;<\/em> the R-Sport new agency quotes Trankov as saying. <em>&ldquo;This time the victory at the Euros is very important because we beat the best pair in the world.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Italians Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek settled for third and their country&rsquo;s first pairs medal with 187.45 points.<\/p>\n<p>Friday sees the ladies&rsquo; short program and the finale of the ice dance, where Russia&rsquo;s Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Soloviev lead after the short dance. Both men&rsquo;s and ladies&rsquo; free skating will conclude the championships on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}