Figure skating - Junior W.CH.2013, Milan
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The lights in the Ice Stadium Agora of Milan that tomorrow 38esimi host the Junior World Championships Figure Skating 2013, which will be engaged at the start, among others, the Russian Julia Lipnitskaia, Elena Radionova and many other future protagonists of the discipline.
Tuesday 26 February 2013 7 minutes reading time
From tomorrow, 192 athletes from 46 countries will battle for the junior world championships 2013, which will be hosted for the first time in Italy that the Ice Stadium Agora of Milan. The fans tricolor, veterans of the election race, will be able to forget for a few hours the political problems of our country and enjoy an event of the highest level technical and quality, both from the organizational point of view, both the location and for a field of athletes of the highest level.
In thirty-seven editions already played the country that has filed the largest number of medals is Russia followed by the United States that have always given great importance to the youth event. In this event in the past have shone samples, skating champions and legends of the past few decades the likes of Evgeni Plushenko, Alexei Yagudin, Daisuke Takahashi, Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan, Evan Lysacek, Mao Asada, Kim Yu-Na, Carolina Kostner , Adelina Sotnikova, Michelle Kwan, Irina Slutskaya and many others.
Among the young stars who will perform at this year stand out,'' in artistic female, young and talented fourteen Russian Julia Lipnitskaia, defending champion having won the 2012 edition of Minsk scoring the most points in both segments race, and Elena Radionova gold at the Junior Grand Prix in Sochi and 2012-13 in the second at the recent national championships behind Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA. Complete the trio Russian Anna Pogorilaya, talent waiting to be discovered 15 years can exceed 160 points in the final of JGP. Japan will present at the start of the national junior champion Satoko Miyahara that during this season has exceeded the threshold of 100 points in the free program and Rika Hongo class 96 in Nagoya. The competition is of high quality, but the Japanese duo can offer excellent performance. The U.S. team has three athletes at the start of high-level performance comparable as between them, be able to point to the first ten positions thanks to Samantha Cesario, Courtney Hicks and Yasmin Siraj, the youngest of the three, and perhaps the most talented . Italy deploys only Sara Box at the start. The Val d'Aosta, Courmayeur instance, won the Italian championships junior at this stage two months ago and in the legs can be a good result thanks to the brilliant management of the duo Romina Poly-Barbara Riboldi who are cultivating the best talent of the young skater blue .
As for the artistic male Americans are eagerly awaited Joshua Farris, world junior runner-up in office and silver at the Junior Grand Prix 12/13, and Jason Brown. The two Americans are the only athletes accredited personal scores over 200 points and it is difficult to escape the medals will leave the most valuable of the men's competition. Japan will go to the hunting of the fifth gold in its history Hino with Ryuju able to battle with the best in the recent final of the Junior Grand Prix in Sochi, but also Shoma One can play an important role. The array to Russia via Alexander Samarin and Mikhail Kolyada, good caliber athletes but which are unlikely to reach the podium having rivals in the race. The Italian Antonio Yachts, fifth at the national senior, but still old enough to compete at the junior level in international competitions will be the only blue'' in the race. The athlete of Turin, coached by Claudia Masoero and Edward de Bernardis, try to get a good result in front of his home fans.
Russia probably mistress both in couples where the dance will propose to the way the teams Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin and Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin. In both categories, the fight will be with the United States that it will present at the start of Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier and Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer in pairs and Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton in the dance with major ambitions. To represent Italy in the artistic couples will Giulia Foresti / Leoluca Sforza, while in the dance will deploy at the start of the pairs formed by Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti and Alessia Busi / Andrea Fabbri.
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