Figure skating - Ice Challenge 2013
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Starting tomorrow, will kick off the fortieth edition of'' Ice Challenge (formerly Leo Scheu Gedächtnislaufen), B level competition to be held at the'' Eishalle of Graz Liebenau
Tuesday 19 November 2013 4 minutes reading time
Between Wednesday and Sunday competitions will be held in each discipline involved with athletes in each category.
Clearly, the media attention will be mainly targeted to Japan's Miki Ando,'' veteran from Eastern Sectional Championship that, albeit with some heartache too, gave her qualifying for the National Championships to be held in Saitama in the second half of December.
The two-times world champion, called to fix some particular elements of spinning top, these days she worked in Sesto San Giovanni directed by Walter Rizzo trusted.
For Ando, ​​been away from competition for two years a half, during which she gave birth to her first child, it will be the fourth appearance racing in the last two months. Moreover, it is not excluded that there might then also take part in Golden Spin of Zagreb, where among the registered figure also winner of the world title as well as Olympic Yu-Na Kim.
How princiaple rival of twenty-five of Nagoya announced the U.S. Courtney Hicks, winner during the season Interntational the U.S. Figure Skating Classic and sixth at Skate Canada due to a first segment of the race below expectations. Just in Graz, l'' yet eighteen California is expected to present the new short program.
Among the members, are currently listed in the'' also interesting Russian Maria Artemieva, twenty of St. Petersburg winner of the Coupe de Nice in fluency and qualifiers to the National leagues, Sweden's Joshi Helgesson, started racing again in Meran in the last week after a break of a couple of months because of an injury to his foot, the hostess Kerstin Frank, suspect to take part in the next Olympic Games, the Russian naturalized Swiss Anna Ovcharova and Slovak Kamila Rajcova and Monika Simancikova, struggling to win over the place for the Olympics. It should also be the game'' Italian Roberta Rodeghiero, fourth in the recent Merano Cup and in the hunt of the points to be selected for the Universiade.
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