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The race at the Nebelhorn Trophy reserved for couples of art will be enhanced by the presence of Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, defending champions and winners on every front possible in the past season.
Wednesday 25 September 2013 7 minutes reading time
For students of Nina Mozer the occasion will be propitious to test in the courts of the new programs and especially for taking measures with the climate of race commitments in view of the upcoming Grand Prix.
World Champions in part, many will announce the interest of starting with the run-up to the four seats still available for the Olympic Games. In fact, for thirteen of the nineteen pairs entered the competition in Oberstdorf will be the last chance available to ensure the nation they belong to the ticket to Sochi.
In optical Olympic qualification appears complicated venture into predictions as several couples are completely devoid of international experience or because of recent formation, either because so far only committed within the confines of home.
On paper, the association appears more equipped one composed by British veterans Kemp / King. The main alternatives may be represented by the Japanese Takahashi / Kihara, who have had a decent debut in Lombardy Trophy of last week, the Israeli Davidovich / Krasnopolski, who have recently taken the first steps in the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic without demerit, and the Ukrainian Usmantseva / Talan, reported great progress after the debut took place last March.
Of course, raises huge curiosity the presence of the Turks Bestandigova / Mansiz, couple on the ice and in life consists of a skater from the Slovak valid palmares, but rather getting on in years, and a former football player who discovered the ice scream in thirty-two years participating in the Turkish version of "Dancing on Ice".
The attention of the experts will also focus on the first two pairs of output competitive North American who do not hide the ambition to compete in Sochi in January by defeating the qualitative internal competition in their respective national championships. Will, in fact, for both the Canadian Purich Oberstdorf / Tran, that Americans Davis / Burbaker. Both couples were born at the end of last winter, are formed by skaters who have achieved remarkable results in the past with other partners and announce immediately a good level of competitiveness.
It goes without saying that promises to be a challenge in the challenge between Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran twelve months ago are still side by side with a bronze medal at the World Championships and now opponents neck with a knife between his teeth after a separation from the contours are far less clear.
COUPLE IN RACE FOR OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION
01) (AUT) Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER02) (BLR) Maria PALIAKOVA / Nikita BOCHKOV03) (BUL) Elizaveta MAKAROVA / Leri KENCHADZE04) (PRK) So Hyang PAK / Nam SONG05) (EST) Natalja ZABIJAKO / Alexandr ZABOEV06) ( GBR) Stacey KEMP / David KING07) (ISR) Andrea DAVIDOVICH / Evgeni KRASNOPOLSKI08) (JPN) Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi KIHARA09) (POL) Magdalena klatka / Radoslaw CHRUSCINSKI10) (PPS) Veronica Grigorieva / Aritz MAESTU11) (SWE) Ronja ROLL / Gustav FORSGREN12) (TUR) Olga BESTANDIGOVA / Ilhan MANSIZ13) (UKR) Elizaveta USMANTSEVA / Roman TALAN
OTHER COUPLES REGISTERED
01) (CAN) Natasha Purich / Mervin TRAN02) (GER) Annabelle Prölss / Ruben BLOMMAERT03) (GER) Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE04) (GER) Maylin WENDE / Daniel WENDE05) (RUS) Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV06) (USA) Lindsay DAVIS / Rockne BRUBAKER
The sixteen seats already allocated for the Olympic Games in Sochi are distributed as follows:
RUSSIA 3CANADA 3GERMANIA 2CINA 2France 2USA 2Italia 2
Television schedule
For the first time in history the Nebelhorn in Oberstdorf Trohpy will be broadcast in Italy. You can follow the races live on EUROSPORT satellite network.
THURSDAY, Sept. 26
EUROSPORT HD - HOURS 18:00 - Short program
FRIDAY, Sept. 27
EUROSPORT HD - HOURS 15:45 - Free program
Sunday, September 29
EUROSPORT 2 HD - 20:30 - Closing Gala
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