Short Track
After Hungary, it is the Netherlands to host the second leg of the short-track World Cup, with still the Olympic qualification. There is the valtellinese, the rest of Italy is less. At the moment...
Wednesday 4 October 2017 12 minutes reading time
In the home of speed skating (but on a long run, mainly though Sjinkie Knegt will defend Olympic bronze over the 1000m short track in four months) will you still speak Korean (a language known to 77,000,000)? Most likely yes. From Budapest to Dordrecht, from Hungary to ... a municipality of the Netherlands located in the province of South Holland and located on an island of the Rhine, Mosa and Schelda Islands, with a script that appears already written. Apparently.
The second leg of the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating is scheduled for Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th October, after the other, the sweep of the phenomenal Choi Min (four wins in four races) -Jeong in Hungary, the first watershed on the path of the five-wheeler non-repayable qualifier. The long wave of host country next Olympic Games (at PyeongChang, February 9-25, 2018) is not particularly impressive since last March, from the Rotterdam World Championships, even in Holland, when Koreans won eight medals, three of awards, winning the overall title with Seo Yi Ra, though not the female one, went to British Elise Christie. But little changes.
World Cup, we said. In South Africa, in the first stage last week, South Korea has won six of the eight men's and women's events, dragged from the Choi, 19-year-old Seoul who was already very young in 2015 and is now able to obscure the star of Shim Suk-Hee (3 medals, with the gold in relay, in Sochi 2014), able to win over the "Blue Danube" from 500m to 1500m, going for 1000m and the female relay on 3000m. She is naturally already seen in her country as the possible queen of the upcoming Olympics, but she, as it reads on the official ISU website, throws water on fire: "I'm certainly happy at this moment and in great confidence, but I can improve and I do not I still feel ready for PyeongChang. I think I'm only 60% of my potential. " Wishing the opponents, if so ...
By the way: Kim Boutin, Canadian, second in Hungary on 1000 and 1500m, Arianna Fontana, 27 year old valtellinese champion of Europe all around in charge and winner of 5 Olympic medals and 14 worlds in career (possibly Italian flag carrier in Korea), so as British Christie (third in 1000m in Budapest, but with a short injury to the thigh) will try to prove that the 2017 World Cup will not be a "one women show" in Korean sauce, it means. At the moment, Choi Min-Jeong seems to be uncomfortable with, for example, Wang Meng, rather than Yang Yang A, both Chinese, both of the Olympic champions in the late 1990s and 2000s (including Vancouver), but we expect more confirmations from a ' 'athlete in ascetic domineering and now fixed presence on the podium in the Cup for almost three years to this part in every single stage. All this without forgetting other Koreans, Kim A Lang and Kim Ye Jin, Canadian Marianne St-Gelais, Australian Deanna Lockett, obviously Chinese Kexin Fan and Dutch Suzanne Schulting, loaded from the home stage. At a masculine level, a man just for the command of course South Korean: Lim Hyo Juan, winner of 1000 and 1500m in Budapest, always ahead of teammate Hwang Dae Heon, who always admitted to the ISU site: "We really have a big team this year, my companions help me grow every day. " In Hungary, however, the hosts have exalted thanks to the companies of Sandor Shaolin Liu (Hungarian mother and Chinese father) winning the 500m. And the relay went to Canada of the eternal Charles Hamelin, with Charle Cournoyer, Samuel Girard and Pascal Dion in front of China and Japan. And South Korea? incredibly fourth.
Ct Kenan Gouadec of Italy, able to place Fontana on the second step of the podium in Hungary on "its distance", as well as second in the final B on the 1500m, with only one male Confortola pushed at least to the quarters in all other individual distances and above all try to find at least one final in relay. The female team has been eliminated in the semi-finals due to disqualifications, the male is unfortunately coming out already in the first round. For Martina Valcepina and Lucia Peretti (both Olympic bronze at Sochi 2014 with the team), at least semifinal goals in their individual trials. At the end of this week, Italy will have about a month's stop before the other two World Cup stages, always valid for Olympic qualification, scheduled for November in Asia, between Shanghai (9-12 November) and Seoul (November 16-19) to finish preparing for the best. "In Budapest we did not hurt, but it needs something more in the profile of the results. I expect improvement especially from the staffs, although in Hungary we were also unlucky - Gouadec's words at the FISG site. - The signals are have always been good and after seeing our opponents at the opera we are even more convinced that we can cut an important place from the protagonists.The general level is in our reach and I hope that the tension of the ' 'debut that sometimes can play bad jokes. "
We recall that athletes accumulate World Cup points through every single distance they compete. A total of 110 Olympic "pettorals" are rolled out of the ISA World Series Short Track Speed ​​Skating events. In fact, they would be 120, but as a host country in the Republic of Korea automatically qualified 5 skaters and 5 skaters. Skaters ranked in the top 32 of the rankings at each distance (500m, 1000m and 1500m), taking into account the three best results on four tests, will be qualified at PyeongChang 2018. Eight are the '' spot '' for male staffs, as many for those women. Each nation will be able to deploy up to 5 athletes to men and 5 to women in case of qualification of staffs; however no more than 3 men and 3 females in individual distances. Nations that do not qualify the staff can enter a number of athletes equal to the maximum number of places at a distance, which can also be highly penalizing.
These are the athletes called for World Cup II in Holland: Arianna Fontana (Fiamme Gialle Predazzo), Arianna Valcepina (Yellow River Predazzo), Martina Valcepina (Fiamme Gialle Predazzo), Elena Viviani (Fiamme Gialle Predazzo), Tommaso Dotti (Fiume Oro Moena), Lucia Peretti (CS Army Courmayeur), Mattia Antonioli (Bormio Ice), Andrea Cassinelli (VG Torino), Davide Viscardi (Agora Skating Team Milan), Cecilia Maffei (Fiamme Azzurre), Nicola Rodigari Val Gardena) and Yuri Confortola (Carabinieri Selva of Val Gardena).
These are the blue ones chosen by the ct. Gouadec to fall on ice between tomorrow and Friday in qualifying rounds:
Men: Cassinelli (500, 1000), Dotti (1000, 1500), Confortola (1000, 1500), Viscards (500), Antonioli (500), Rodigari (1500).
Women: Fontana (500, 1000, 1500), Peretti (500, 1000, 1500), M. Valcepina (500), Viviani (1000), A. Valcepina (1500).
Here is the race program:
Thursday, October 5, from 9 am: 500 and 1500 batteries
Friday, October 6, 9 am: 1000 batteries / batteries and quarter-finals
Saturday, October 7, from 14: semifinals and finals 1500 / quarter finals, semifinals and finals 500, semifinals staffette
Sunday, October 8, from 14: Semifinals and finals 1000 / finals staffs
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