MARSEILLE, France -- Russian teen Evgenia Medvedeva and Japans Yuzuru Hanyu did not even need their best skating to successfully defend their Grand Prix Final titles on Saturday.The 17-year-old Medvedeva stumbled on her first jump and, being a strict perfectionist, this was still playing on her mind after the medal ceremony.I expected more from myself. I wanted to do more and I could have done more, she said. The mistake was hard to overlook. It happened to me for the first time that I missed that first (jump).Hanyu botched a quad salchow and failed to complete a triple lutz and yet still won a fourth straight title.But they had enough of a lead from their short programs, and also got some help from their rivals.I feel this was a really good experience, I learned something here, Hanyu said.As he skated to the haunting strings and piano of Hope and Legacy by Japanese composer Jo Hisaishi, the crowd was engrossed.Hanyu started well, executing his quad loop jump as if tip-toeing onto a velvet cushion, rather than landing on rock-hard ice. So when he fell on his quad salchow-triple toe loop attempt, the crowd gasped in surprise. But they still showered the arena with flowers at the end.Im able to connect with the audience, Hanyu said.His winning score of 293.90 put him way ahead of his established main rivals: Two-time former champion Patrick Chan of Canada and two-time world champion Javier Fernandez of Spain. Both failed to finish in the top three.Instead, 17-year-old American Nathan Chen got the best free score to finish second overall in his first senior Final with 282.85 points, doing just enough to beat 18-year-old Shoma Uno of Japan on 282.51.It came as a surprise to me to come out with a medal today, Chen said.Uno matched his third-place finish from last year.Chan was second after Thursdays short program, and Fernandez third.They both crumbled.Fernandez stumbled on his quad salchow attempt and fell on the next jump -- a triple axel -- to finish fourth overall.Chan did not skate like a three-time world champion, falling three times to drift down to fifth, with only American Adam Rippon behind him.Those patchy performances put Hanyus rare errors and Medvedevas blip into perspective.Medvedeva could afford to make a mistake, too, having scored a world record in the short program.When she came onto the ice for her free, the cheers were still echoing around the Palais Omnisports in Marseille following a clinical and elegant lead-grabbing performance from Japans Satoko Miyahara to the sounds of Gustav Holsts The Planets.Medvedeva appeared a little nervous, stumbling backward on the ice after landing awkwardly on a triple flip, triple toe loop.She glared at the ice, giving it a look of disdain.But this seemed to spur her on, and her triple lutz was perfect, as were the triple loop and triple flip.There is always a back-up plan, Medvedeva said.Gaining in confidence, the world champion executed a triple salchow-triple toe loop and then a double axel as if going through her training drills.When her winning score of 227.66 points came in, she wiped her brow. She need not have, because the scores did not end up close.Miyahara scored 218.33 as she finished runner-up for a second time.Anna Pogorilya made it two Russian women on the podium, rising up to third on 216.47.Earlier, former Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the ice dance, clinching the elusive title for the first time in their comeback year.Leading after the short program, the Canadians won comfortably, scoring 197.22 to beat French pair Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron by more than four points (192.81).World silver medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani, who are brother and sister, were second overnight but the Americans dropped to third with 189.60.Virtue and Moir, who are also two-time world champions, returned to competitive skating this year after two years away.They won gold at the 2010 Games on home ice in Vancouver, and took silver two years ago at the Sochi Games in Russia behind Americans Merly Davis and Charlie White.They were also second to Davis and White in the Final for three consecutive years from 2012-14, but there was no stopping them this time. http://www.officiallionsgear.com/Lions-Da-Shawn-Hand-Draft-Jersey/ .Y. - Detroit goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has earned NHL first star of the week honours after winning in his first three appearances of the season. http://www.officiallionsgear.com/Lions-Frank-Ragnow-Draft-Jersey/ .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. http://www.officiallionsgear.com/Lions-Matthew-Stafford-Draft-Jersey/ . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. http://www.officiallionsgear.com/Lions-Deshawn-Shead-Draft-Jersey/ ., for the next three years with the signings on Monday of Daryl Townsend and Michael Carter. http://www.officiallionsgear.com/Lions-Luke-Willson-Draft-Jersey/ . Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday that allowed the veteran right-hander to retire as a member of team with which he broke into the majors and spent the bulk of his distinguished 16-year career. Australia 0 for 14 trail South Africa 9 for 259 dec (Du Plessis 118*, Hazlewood 4-68) by 245 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsHis innings was mint, his declaration sweet. He took the shine off all of Australias fine bowling and silenced the lollygagging Australian fans. There, the terrible puns are out of the way early. Now for the substance, and on the first day - and night - at Adelaide Oval, everything Faf du Plessis did was of substance. From the moment he walked to the crease, things were against him. The pink ball was swinging, the Australians were on top, the score was 3 for 44. And du Plessis walked out to the sound of a booing crowd.But if the spectators remembered du Plessis previous visit to the ground, when he blockaded for 376 balls on debut to salvage an unlikely draw, they would have known he is a hard man to perturb. And with his ball-tampering conviction behind him, du Plessis had but one focus: leading his team back into this match. When he ran off late in the evening at 9 for 259, a hundred to his name and an aggressive declaration forcing Australias openers to bat for an awkward period under lights, he had done so.By Test standards it was an exceptionally early declaration, coming after only 76 overs of the first innings of the match. But perhaps he had noted that David Warner had been off the field being treated for a shoulder injury, and thus a declaration would mean Warner was prevented from opening the innings. In any case, although the debutant No.11 Tabraiz Shamsi had fun swinging the bat, there seemed little to be gained from batting on.If South Africas bowlers did not strike, they at leasted tested Australias openers. It took 38 balls for Australia to find any runs off the bat, a single through midwicket from Usman Khawaja, sent out to open because Warner could not. Next ball, the debutant Matt Renshaw got off the mark in Tests with a boundary tucked off his hip from his 19th delivery. By stumps, Australia were 0 for 14, with Renshaw on 8 and Khawaja on 3. But on day two, they would have to get set once again.And if day one proved anything, it was that getting set against the swinging and seaming pink ball was a challenge. In the third over of the match, Stephen Cook was lbw to Mitchell Starc for 4, only to be reprieved because it was a no-ball. But Dean Elgar, Hashim Amla and JP Duminy had no such luck as they each fell with scores of 5, all to edges behind the wicket. In fact, every wicket until the eighth fell to catches behind the wicket.Elgar edged a swinging ball from Starc and was snapped up at third slip by Usman Khawaja, Amla nicked Hazlewood and was caught by Renshaw low to his right at first slip, and Duminy gave Matthew Wade his first Test catch in more than three years when he inside-edged behind off Hazlewood. South Africa were 3 for 44, and du Plessis was walking to the crease. His team neeeded something special, and du Plessis duly delivered an innings of remarkable character.dddddddddddd When given width outside off he drove extremely well, but he also picked off runs through midwicket when the bowlers strayed onto his pads. He struck 17 boundaries, more than half of them off Starc. He brought up his fifty from 92 deliveries, and his century from 147. By that stage he had the No.10 for company, wickets having fallen regularly throughout the innings. They just werent falling at his end. When he declared, he had 118 off 164 balls.Du Plessis was the anchor but needed help along the way. First it came in a 51-run stand with Cook, who used his early reprieve to reach his highest score of the tour. Cook went to the tea break on 40 but could not add to his score upon the resumption, and edged Starc to Steven Smith at second slip. It left South Africa at 4 for 95, with two wickets each to Starc and Hazlewood, who were the most dangerous of the bowlers.Jackson Bird, playing his first Test since the tour of New Zealand in February, struggled to find his rhythm early and leaked runs, but improved after tea and was rewarded when Temba Bavuma edged him behind for 8. Quinton de Kock struck a brisk 24 before edging Hazlewood behind and it was the first time on this trip that de Kock had failed to reach fifty in any innings - Test or tour match - and it ended his run of five consecutive Test scores of fifty or more.Hazlewood snared his fourth wicket just before dinner when Vernon Philander was given out caught behind for 4, only to ask confidently for a review as the ball had brushed his leg on the way through to Wade. However, the thinnest imaginable spike on Real-Time Snicko suggested there might have been a faint inside edge before the ball struck Philander, and third umpire Aleem Dar upheld the on-field decision.Still Australia could not run through the tail. Kyle Abbott contributed 17 from 50 balls and put on 54 with du Plessis for the eighth wicket - the highest partnership of the innings - before he was lbw to Bird. The final wicket came when Kagiso Rabada dragged his back foot just outside his crease off Nathan Lyon and was stumped by Matthew Wade, giving Lyon his first wicket since the first innings of the Perth Test, and ending his 660-ball drought.And yet still South Africa fought. Shamsi, on debut and with a first-class average of 8.18, struck an unbeaten 18 in a 39-run stand before his partner, du Plessis, called an end to the innings. The result was a Test match poised in a fascinating position at stumps on day one. And all because of du Plessis, who had made 118 out of 259 and then wrong-footed Australia with his declaration. If he has had a week to forget, at least this was a day to remember. Wholesale Hoodies NFL Shirts Outlet Jerseys NFL Wholesale Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '