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The month of August & egrave; so far been characterized by injuries of varying severity & agrave; that threaten to deplete the field starters dell''imminente Grand Prix.
Tuesday 19 August 2014 4 minutes reading time
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* Spouses Wende not take part in the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The pair of German art, selected to compete at Skate America and the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, & egrave; was forced to renounce because of worries physicists Daniel Wende. According to reports & egrave; learned, the thirty year old native of Essen would have been forced to forced stop due to back problems, certainly not a novelty for him & agrave ;.
At the time, the international federation has yet to release the names of the substitutes, but not egrave &; except that the place left vacant at Skate America can be assigned to the young fellow Annabelle Pr & ouml, l & szlig; / Ruben Blommaert. The main alternative & egrave; represented by Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, that for & ograve; could be chosen by the Russian Federation to fill in the Rostelecom Cup 'last place left available to the host nation.
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* L & rsquo; emerging pair of American art consists of Tarah Kayne and Daniel O & rsquo; Shea could give up the Cup of China and the Rostelecom Cup. Indeed, Tarah Kayne sar & agrave; submitted at the end of July in a small operation & Outdoors, right hip. As reported by the American federation, the couple should still start to train a few weeks after the & rsquo; surgery.
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* The Russian pair formed by Julia Antipova and Nodari Maisuradze & egrave; at pit stops because of an unspecified malaise that hit seventeen of Zelenograd.
Antipova was admitted to the hospital and, according to the coach of the pair Artur Dmtriev not potr & agrave; get back on the ice before September. Participation in the Cup of China, which will be held & agrave; in early November, not always for the time being in danger. Antipova / Maisuradze should then compete in the NHK Trophy, the final stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix to be held in late November.
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* The nineteen year old Russian Mikhail Kolyada you & egrave; injured in half & agrave; August to the right ankle. The prognosis of at least two months puts into serious question the participation in the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow scheduled for mid & agrave; November.
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* Valentina Marchei victim in early August with a right knee injury, & egrave; was forced to abandon a series of performances during which he skated on the ice alongside partner Ondrej Hotarek. The 'entities with agrave; of the problem & egrave; clear, but it is hoped that the Italian skater can return to training by the end of August.
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