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The movement juniors Italian is experiencing a period of strong fibrillation which is involving in particular the areas of dance and artistic couples went out to a large extent revolutionized in the last period.
Tuesday 1 October 2013 6 minutes reading time
The two-time national champions junior dance Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti (pictured) decided to split their streets. At the moment, there are no known reasons for the separation of the binomial stationed in Zanica, but it certainly could have been a factor the result obtained in the stage of junior Grand Prix held in Mexico City. On this occasion, in fact, it was the fourth-place finish in puzzling, as the huge gap in terms of points than opponents to last season had fought almost on equal terms.
At the same time, always Zanica, there is news of another painful division, but in the field of artistic couples. As it was rumored a few days ago, the very young and promising Giulia Foresti / Leo Luca Sforza stopped their partnership. Again, we do not know the causes of the separation of the two times junior national champions, who, a little over two weeks ago, were eighth in the stage of junior Grand Prix held in Kosice coming to surprise clearly beaten by the most experienced countrymen Giulia Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini.
On the sidelines, we can not forget how athletes Zanica are experiencing a rather complicated because of the impossibility to use the track and the consequent temporary transfer in Bergamo or nearby Sesto.
From what has been learned through the grapevine, it would be in the pipeline the birth of a new pair of dance formed by brothers Sforza. Carefully analyzing the situation, the idea is far from evil. In fact, Leo Luca Sforza according to ISU regulations is two years younger than his sister, who, however, will accomplish the nineteenth year of age in July 2014. For this reason, the newly formed pair of dance could also compete in the junior category in the 2014-2015 season.
It seems that on the horizon there are also important news on the front pairs of art. We talk with the insistence of a possible test between fourteen and twenty-three Giulia Luca Foresti Demattè, which in recent months had skated along with Kristina Bustamante. However, if the idea goes ahead, the new couple, because of the age difference, it could not take part in any international competition in the current season, unless exceptions are ad hoc. In fact, Foresti not yet eligible for the senior races, while Demattè is too old for the junior category, a situation similar to that experienced by promising German couple Prolls / Blommaert, ranked fourth in the recent Nebelhorn Trophy. It goes without saying that any partnership would represent a long-term project and therefore likely to be the problem would not arise either. In this regard, it should be remembered that Luke Demattè, cesciuto strongly competitive athlete in Cavalese and then moved in Sesto San Giovanni, has a tenth place in the World Junior Championships (2011) and two appearances in the European Championships.
Ricapitoldando the situation, the Italian team juniors will lose one of three pairs of art, while the picture is bleaker in the dance as three of the first four pairs classified in the last National leagues will no longer defend the colors of blue in the current season . In fact, the separation of Sforza / Fioretti must be added the oldest one of Fabbri / Busi, as well as the choice of Moscheni / Lukacs to compete for Hungary. Translated, it means that in the short term you will be relying solely on Sara Ghislandi / Jonah Third Ortenzi.
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