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SOCHI (Russia) - A little'' records are ... fallen even before they begin hostilities on the shores of the Black Sea To debut new nations, races unpublished and has already exceeded the record for Vancouver 2010 for the countries included in the Games.
Monday 3 February 2014 4 minutes reading time
Let the numbers, yes, especially for the various expeditions, some are already record: four years ago in Vancouver, 2010, 82 countries were present at the Games. In 2014 Sochi will be as many as six more, or 88. It will be the first time an athlete Zimbabwe, Luke Steyn, in alpine skiing. Novelty of snow in the Olympics for Dominica, Togo, Paraguay, Tonga, East Timor, and Malta.
The largest contingent will be the U.S., with 230 athletes. The Azzurri will be 113, of which 57 newcomers, 44 women. We will not be represented only in'' Ice Hockey and Curling.
So 113 Italians, four more Vancouver 2010, although the specialties are increased by twelve units and qualification criteria have been greatly modified by the International Federations. It was from Nagano 1998 (114, but there was a hockey team) that Italy is not enrolled so many athletes in Olympic edition abroad (Torino 2006 can not text because as the host country Italy was qualified by law in all sports).
The oldest member of the team will be Giorgio Di Centa who has just turned 41, and also the youngest comes from the Italian Winter Sports Federation and is the luger Robatscher Sandra, who last month turned 18. Although there are no minors in the team, the average age of Italy in Sochi has dropped compared to previous recent editions, thanks mainly to women. This time, the average age is 26.06, almost a year less than in Vancouver (when it was 26.86). To find a lower mean age need to go back to Salt Lake City in 2002 where he took a team with an average age of 25.99 (practically a few months younger than your current one).
While the difference with Vancouver for men is minimal (27,31 against 27,51 this time four years ago), is very sensitive to the difference in the women's field. In Russia we have an average age of 24.81 (the lowest of the last twenty years in Lillehammer in 1994 was 23.61) significantly younger than that in Canada (26,22).
The region has always represented the most Trentino Alto Adige (60 athletes), with the province of Bolzano, which maintains the lead with 48 athletes and the Province of Trento (12 units) is exceeded even by the Lombardy has 21 athletes. The Italian regions represented increased from 9 to 10, while only 5 are foreign-born (4.4%), one more than Vancouver.
Finally, increases in the percentage level "rose" (44 athletes against 69 men) team (38.93% versus 36.36% of the shipment in Canada).
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