Retreat for Glebova and Lacoste, gap year for Asada

Ritiro per Glebova e Lacoste, anno sabbatico per Asada
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Retreat for Glebova and Lacoste, gap year for Asada

The veterans longtime Amelie Lacoste and Elena Glebova have today'' s intention to abandon the sports competitions.

'' The announcement is arrived a few days after setting the framework of the participants in the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating event that Regulation in hand, he would have seen Lacoste at the starting line under the position occupied in the World Standing. L'' Elena Glebova of Estonia, Tallinn nearly twenty-five original, has filed nine appearances in the World Championships and won seven times the national title. The most Career is important represented by the'' seventh-place finish in the latest edition of the European Championships, which is in addition to the satisfaction of having taken part in three Olympics. After spending several seasons in Hackensack, New Jersey, will return home to finish his studies. Canada's Amelie Lacoste, twenty-five native of Montreal, is was the senior national champion in 2012, has filed a third place in prestigious'' edition of Skate Canada in 2010 and has participated in two World Championships. As reported by the Canadian federation, will continue to gravitate into the world of skating, but it is not yet clear what role. Among those who will not be competing in the next season, stands the name of the reigning world champion Mao Asada, who recently announced plans to take a gap year before deciding whether to withdraw from competition or continue the activity'' competitive. The Japanese champion, winning among other things'' s latest edition of the Grand Prix, will focus in the coming months to the shows on the ice.
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