Doors wide open for the Olympics Stefano Caruso

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Doors wide open for the Olympics Stefano Caruso

Stefano Caruso, Italian skater dance for several years stationed in Germany, he finally acquired German citizenship automatically become eligible for the Olympic Games.

At this point, the goal for the emerging dance couple formed by the same Caruso and Tanja Kolbe becomes clear to convince the demanding German federation to select for the upcoming exhibition in five circles. Germany, in fact, thanks to the tenth place finish from Zhiganshina / Gazsi in the recent World Championships in London, Sochi will deploy two pairs of dance, but should not forget that in the past the German federation has required performance standards for high enroll their athletes at the Olympics. On paper, however, there should be no problem for Kolbe / Caruso, coming off a surprising eighth place in the last European Championships played in Zagreb. However, not be excluded a priori that the Italo-German can even play the role of German as the first pair listed Zhiganshina / Gazsi are not currently eligible for the Olympic Games. Nelli Zhiganshina, in fact, is not yet in possession of German citizenship. This was followed therefore good news for Barbara Fusar Poli, who, in a few days, should have ensured the participation in the review of Sochi with at least two pairs. It should not be, forgotten that Charlene Guignard, a partner of Marco Fabbri, obtained at the end of August, the Italian citizenship. Just Guignard / Fabbri and Kolbe / Caruso represent the couples dancing flagship school of Barbara Fusar Poli, one of the coaches in the emerging discipline. Among the technical association of the German-Italian names also appear on the likes of Rene Lohse and Martin Skotnicky, which shall follow the couple in training in Germany (mainly in Berlin).

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