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The Federation announced today were that Miki Ando take part in the Nebelhorn Trophy, scheduled to Oberstdorf from Thursday, September 26.
Tuesday 17 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The last appearance of competitive figure skater Japanese dates back to 2011, when it won in Moscow the second world title of his career. Meanwhile, after the separation from their Russian Nikolai Morozov took place in the spring of 2011, was the terminus in numerous ice shows and gave birth to her first child in April (Himawari).
Initially, twenty-five of Nagoya had planned to return to compete at home, but the need to reach as soon as the thresholds set by the ISU to gain eligibility for the Olympic Games and the World Cup home has had the upper hand. In this regard, it is important to recall that in view of the World Championships, the regulation provides a technical limit of 26 points for the short program and 46 for the free program, while regarding the Olympics limits decreased to 20 for the short and 36 for the longest segment of the race.
On the basis of the reported from its official website, Ando would have received the invitation to the Nebelhorn Trophy by President Dieter Hillebrand of the German federation, which would have used as a through federation Japanese. The version, however, was denied by the press in Tokyo, according to which the Japanese federation was completely unaware of the transaction. Regulation The rigid Japanese, in fact, would not allow skaters out of the national team to participate in competitions foreign territory, but it is easy to think that the twice champion rainbow may have received a waiver.
Filed commitment in Germany, Miki Ando will return to Japan, where it is announced at the start of the first qualifying event for the national championships to be held in Yokohama City. Who recently attended his training has spoken enthusiastically. With ease, have been repeatedly landed four different triple (Rittberger, salchow, toe loop and lutz) and different combinations triple / triple. Ando, ​​however, has never hidden the fact that he started to work at full capacity since the early days of May, a little more than a month after giving birth, which is why it is normal that may already be in good condition form . At the moment, still maintain the mystery of who will be the main technical reference of the Japanese figure skater.
Il Nebelhorn Trophy verrà trasmesso in diretta e in esclusiva dal network satellitare Eurosport (canali 211 e 212 della piattaforma SKY).
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