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Good news for the Japanese skater Haruka Imai, inserted today were among the athletes who take part in the Cup of China, recently became for publicity reasons, Lexus Cup of China.
Thursday 17 October 2013 3 minutes reading time
The twenty year old from Tokyo, who won a few weeks ago'' s Ondrej Nepela Trophy Bratislalva, will take the place of the Swedish Joshi Helgesson, still stops in the pits because of an injury.
This is an important reason for the satisfaction'' student of Jason Dungjen and Yuka Sato, who will become the fifth Japanese athlete to participate in two stages of the Grand Prix season. At the moment, in fact, are recorded in the two events also Mao Asada, committed on Friday at Skate America, the novice Satoko Miyahara, Kanako Murakami, and Akiko Suzuki.
Imai, in addition to the Cup of China in Beijing (1-3 November), will take part in the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow (22-24 November), the last act of the nineteenth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating.
'' In the list of entries in the day issued today by the International Federation (ISU), the figure still the name of Alena Leonova between recorded at Skate Canada, despite the Russian figure skater is called out during the week.
Given that by virtue of the restricted timing is not obvious'' a possible replacement, the likely candidates to take over could be the Chinese and the Russian Nicole Zhang Kexin Gosviiani. However, for both esisterebbeo problems not easy to solve. L'' student of Li Mingzhu, in fact, would be forced in a few days to move from the time zones in Canada than China, as also entered the stage of home, while for young product of the school of St. Pietorburgo may be missing the time required to obtain visas necessari.La Polina Korobeynikova third option is, however, in an even more difficult because the visa problem that combines participation in the Cup of China. Afterwards, the first alternative would be the'' Elena Glebova of Estonia, currently not enrolled in any stage of Grand Prix.
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