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The European Figure Skating Championship 2014 Budapest, eagerly awaited event in the Olympic Games in Sochi and programmed in the week between 13 and 19 January, he risks losing some of its most prestigious protagonists.
Friday 18 October 2013 4 minutes reading time
The pair formed by artistic Russian Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, in fact, in a recent interview he expressed some doubts about the possibility of participating in the event. The couple pointed out that the week's schedule of events differs totally from the traditional one, especially penalizing athletes who compete in their chosen discipline. The couple find themselves in fact to skate the short program on Friday instead of the traditional Tuesday, then competing with the free program only for the final on Sunday morning, a day usually devoted only to the gala performance which is in fact scheduled soon after, 15 pm the same day. The duo has also shown how this program demonstrates a lack of attention to the needs of athletes in general more so than those of couple d'' art, whose representatives have in fact the higher average age of the world of skating of figure and therefore could be severely fatigue resulting from a free program to skate race and one'' s performance without adequate breaks. The two Russian athletes have not yet ruled out the possibility of competing in any case and you are limited to Europeans to question their participation, perhaps becoming a spokesman for a common discontent among athletes. While it seems that this special programming of the races has been designed to cater to broadcasting needs, d'' On the other hand one might hope that in front of the flat rate of one or more athletes favorites for the title, the organizers and the federation International come back to where they started. Below we present then the programming at the time set for the championship in Budapest:
Wednesday, 15 January 201410:30 Short program donne16: 45 Opening Ceremony on ghiaccio17: 30 Short program danzaGiovedì 16 January 201411:45 Short program maschile18: 25 Free program danzaVenerdì 17 January 201413:30 Short program coppie17: 50 Free program donneSabato 18 January 201412:05 Free program men Sunday, 19 January 201411:00 Free program coppie15: 00 Gala performance of
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