Short Track - Cabinet meeting in Dresden
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Three certainties emerged in the first day devoted to preliminary and batteries & nbsp; World Cup & nbsp; a & nbsp; Dresden. On the ice of German & rsquo; EnergieVerbund Arena & nbsp; the & nbsp; & nbsp blue short track; proves to be able to count on two compelling and fast blades tricolor. On the one hand the 'steel Arianna Fontana & nbsp; is shown not to have lost the stimuli after a European undertone and advances in 1500 and 500 meters. While the male part, & nbsp; Tommaso Dotti & nbsp; & egrave; the 'single to center two qualifiers, both in the 1500 meters. Positive signals from & rsquo; waiting & nbsp; women's relay.
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For the rest, came only two other qualifications for the patrol ct Kenan Gouadec. The first by Arianna Valcepina, landed in the quarter of 1000 meters. While the guarantee Yuri Confortola not betray in & ldquo; his & rdquo; 1500 meters. L & rsquo; expert athlete originally from Bormio does not fail l & rsquo; assault on the semi-finals & ndash; planned for tomorrow & ndash; in the first series on the distance.
At the end of the day, comes only smile decided by the couriers. Women (Valcepina, Tombolato, Fontana and Viviani) earn a spot in the semifinals with security tomorrow. The four blue win your battery in 4 & rsquo; 17 & rsquo; & rsquo; 658, taking the lead from & rsquo; eleventh lap without ever giving the position. Prepaid France and especially Hungary. Just the Magyar & ndash; eliminated - had won the & rsquo; last direct confrontation with the Italian: a challenge that had earned them the bronze medal at the recent European Championship, at the expense of Fontana and companions.
Unfortunately the qualification to the semifinals not & egrave; encored closing program by males. C & rsquo; & egrave; for & ograve; to provide a & rsquo; mitigating important to male quartet. Due to an ankle problem, the veteran blue Nicola Rodigari & egrave; was forced to forfeit. The Azzurri have cos & Igrave; lost one of the pillars of their relay. Actually & agrave ;, in the Preliminaries, l & rsquo; Italy (Dotti, Confortola, Gurini, Viscardi) had passed the turn. For the four skaters was enough to finish in third place behind Canada and Belgium & ndash; with the concomitant disadvantage to hosts Germany & ndash; to earn a place in the quarter-finals. Quarters then proved fatal & ndash; where Andrea Cassinelli has taken the place of Massimo Gurini & ndash; where the team is Italian & egrave; placed third, finishing well separated by more than four seconds off the pass, the first two teams have qualified: Canada and the pi & ugrave; Affordable Britain. The 5000 meters were covered in 6 & rsquo; 53 & rsquo; & rsquo; 248. Not enough time to hope for a repechage in the semifinals. This & egrave; arrived in the other two previous batteries for Korea (6 & rsquo; 50 & rsquo; & rsquo; 513) and France (6 & rsquo; 47 & rsquo; & rsquo; 448). L & rsquo; Italy comes cos & Igrave; scene in advance. Now the way to a World Cup qualifying Moscow is complicated damn. Way made even more & ugrave; inaccessible from the contemporary passage of turn for the direct rivals France and Britain, struggling with the Blues for a place among the top eight in the world that will play the World Championship race in March.
This is the balance of the journey of the Italian in the early rounds of the individual events. In the 1000 meters, Lucia Peretti comes immediately from the main draw. The Bormina stops in fifth place in his preliminary round which boosted the Canadian Marianne St-Gelais and Japanese Ami Hirai. The time of 1 & rsquo; 37 & rsquo; & rsquo; 987 has placed the & rsquo; blue & Outdoors; last place. Dovr & agrave; start the climb to the main draw from the repechage. Same path for Federica Tombolato. The young South Tyrolean athlete passes a turn & ndash; the first & ndash; but & egrave; forced to stop his run in the batteries. Comes third behind the leader on the distance in the cup, Shim Suk-hee, first in front of the champion allround d & rsquo; Europe Elise Christie and Russian & ndash; then fished out & ndash; Ekaterina Konstantinova, fresh medal & rsquo; gold in the relay at & rsquo; European Dordrecht.
As said, the happy notes come only from Arianna Valcepina. The 20 year old Financial guarantee a place directed to the quarter-finals tomorrow, finishing in third place in his heat. & Egrave; preceded by Boutin Canadian and Japanese Hirai. Arianna, for & ograve ;, & egrave; fished with the second fastest time: 1 & rsquo; 36 & rsquo; & rsquo; 529. Decisive & ograve; also his overtaking the Russian Malagich.
Arianna Fontana & egrave; a guarantee granite. The 24 year old Polaggia not miss a shot in the two individual distances on which & egrave; ventured today and so far in the 2014-15 Cup. First win in tranquility & agrave; his battery in 1500 & ndash; first series-. The Fontana rule rivals in 2 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 511 and tomorrow will & agrave; at the start of the semifinals groped for the climb to a new access in the Final A, gi & agrave; reached twice & ndash; in the US and Canada with the third and second place & ndash; in season.
A few minutes more & ugrave; Later, the champions proudly Valtellina guarantees the quarterfinals even on 500 meters. The triumphant over the distance in Montr & eacute; to win the first preliminary and then the battery & ndash; front of Noh and Liu & ndash; with a time of 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 882.
On the same distance, nothing to do for Arianna Valcepina, eliminated in the Preliminary competition in that & rsquo; he saw shot past the qualification. L & rsquo; blue & egrave; finished fourth at 198 cents from German Tina Grassow. Elena Viviani, however, has interrupted his ride battery, after he surrendered to the Korean Jeon Ji-Soo and the Lithuanian Agne Serekaite. The 22 year old Isolaccia & ndash; third all & rsquo; arrival & ndash; & Egrave; was the first among the non-fished. Not & egrave; enough for a time of 44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 408: should have done better than two-tenths and a half to reach the quarterfinals. In any case, both Valcepina both Viviani will try to return to the board by the repechage on Sunday morning.
In the first series of 1500 & ndash; who awarded the Fountain & ndash; have stopped prematurely still Viviani (third in the battery very difficult that awarded Jeon Ji-Soo and Maltais), but not without a fight on equal terms with the two promoted. Ko also Arianna Sighel, absolute newcomer in the World Cup, arresasi & ndash; sixth and final - in the battery won by the Chinese Guo Yihan.
The second series of 1500 has not seen any progress in the Italian board. Out immediately Lucia Peretti, Arianna Sighel & ndash; both third against opponents very challenging & ndash; and Federica Tombolato. For all three will need the repechage & ndash; that will award only two skaters - to hope for a qualification for the semi-finals Sunday.
Male & egrave; now negative and uphill journey of Italians in the 1000 meters. They go out and Massimo Andrea Cassinelli Gurini, gi & agrave; out after the preliminaries, where both come third & ndash; passed the turn only the top two finishers - in their respective races. Unlucky Cassinelli, who can not undermine the top two finishers Sjinkie Knegt & ndash; Cup leader on the distance & ndash; and Denis Nikisha. The third Italian writing, Nicola Rodigari, had instead taken away because of physical problems that & rsquo; forced to pit on this first day.
First series of 1500 meters decidedly more & ugrave; lucky for the Blues. The boys collect Italian two qualifiers to the semifinals & ndash; scheduled for tomorrow afternoon -. We will review all & rsquo; opera Yuri Confortola and Thomas Dotti. Eliminated instead Davide Viscardi, third all & rsquo; arrival & ndash; the qualification obtained Kwak Yoon-Gy and Paul Stanley, but not fast enough to hope for the next repechage, can in the tournament at the start tomorrow morning.
Zero out of three in 500. The blues Confortola, Cassinelli and Viscardi end gi & agrave; in the preliminary rounds of their day on the distance pi & ugrave; short of the program. Even they will try to re-enter the tournament recovery.
In closing of individual races, Tommaso Dotti gives an encore. The 21-year old policeman is confirmed in good condition, going to take a new qualification in the 1500 meters, this time in the second round of the German Cup. The Milanese (in the cover photo, in full battle with dirty hits, among Krueger and Boda) finishes second in its battery, behind the talented young American John-Henry Krueger. Eliminated instead Massimo Gurini, fifth at the finish of its battery.
Click here to access the official site of & rsquo; ISU, where you can see the full results, the competition program of the penultimate weekend of the World Cup in Dresden.
From tomorrow, also, will & agrave; can follow the & rsquo; the event via live streaming made available by Eurovision. This & egrave; the link from which you can & ograve; direct access from 15:00.
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