Short Track Speed ​​Skating - World Cup in Salt Lake City
Francesco A. Armillotta
It starts with a great two on two. Ed & egrave; definitely the best way to start the season after the Olympics for & nbsp; Arianna Fontana. The phenomenon of the blue & nbsp; in short track skating & nbsp; is an encore of podiums & nbsp; Salt Lake City. He concludes the trip to the US & nbsp; World Cup & nbsp; with & nbsp; new & nbsp; coin: a beautiful & nbsp; silver & nbsp; in & nbsp; 500m & nbsp; in addition to the & nbsp; bronze & nbsp; of 1500. If this was to be a season enough & ldquo; soft & rdquo; for the star of & nbsp; short track, we think of the weather & more ugrave well; rosy. And to think that the 24 year old Valtellina had come in a & nbsp; Final A & nbsp; almost prohibitive, with Chinese & nbsp; Fan Kexin & nbsp; cool & nbsp; World Record & nbsp; at the semifinals and two athletes have proved in great form as & nbsp; Marianne St-Gelais & nbsp; & ndash; gi & agrave; gold yesterday in the 1000 - and the Korean & nbsp; Jeon Ji-Soo. & nbsp;
Monday 10 November 2014 13 minutes reading time
But the end of the & rsquo; blue & egrave; a small masterpiece. Despite not finding a starting fast at the start. At the first corner & egrave; In fact the fourth. But after the next straight exceeded in one action the Canadian and Jeon. Place it so & igrave; in second place behind the wild Fan. The Chinese pushes in all, while Arianna blunt an attack of St-Gelais and picks up a beautiful & nbsp; second & nbsp; & ndash; The ninth career on 500 - & nbsp; 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 850 & nbsp; behind the new world record-Fan, first with a time of 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 696.
The path of Arianna Fontana & nbsp; & agrave looked down; & Ldquo; safe & rdquo; the quarter, after passing the preliminary, since & eacute; & Egrave; state or almost as & eacute; impeccable. Dispute the first race of the afternoon, US & nbsp; & ndash; the quarter-finals - & nbsp; defying Courtney Shmyr (Canada), Lin Yue (China) and Rianne de Vries (Netherlands). The Valtellina wins with his usual confidence in front of the & rsquo; s Asian, remained in the lead for all four rounds. Skip cos & igrave; in the semifinals in 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 647 (third fastest time). Just in the semifinals, Arianna had laid the foundations for something important against challengers Lin Yue, and the Serekaite & rsquo; s expert Korean Jeon Ji-Soo. At the first corner takes second place behind Quest & rsquo; s last. The Fountain closes the door to China & ndash; that will end & agrave; against the guards with Lithuania, in desperate attack in the & rsquo; s last tour - and is not satisfied, the leg trying to close photo finish in front of the Korean. Can not make it to a & rsquo; trifle of two thousandths. 43 '' & rsquo; 455, but the final was already in & agrave; been conquered with tranquility & agrave; disarming. A signal state of grace arrow blue ice.
Meanwhile, the day of the 500 meters, had given the & rsquo; s incredible 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 504 & ndash; in the semi-final earlier - which had hit the Fan Kexin & rsquo; s access to the Final A. The Chinese, in fact, has created a stunning new world record in the first of two semi-finals. An improvement, compared to his personal best, more than four tenths. The 21 year old has so & igrave; brought down the previous record of 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; s 597 of compatriot Wang Meng, made in Dresden in 2013.
Positive evidence of Elena Viviani - ninth in the 500m - good at finding again a quarter-final & ndash; after 1000 meters on Saturday - World Cup in 2014: his race, for ograve ;, & this time the ends & igrave ;. But big credit goes to the 22 year old because of Isolaccia & eacute; & Egrave; managed to win the repechage, excelling in extra batteries and semi-morning. Once you gain readmission into the main draw of the 500 meters, surrenders to the quarterfinals, eliminated from the World Championships twice and Fan Kexin Agne Serekaite. L & rsquo; blue comes third in the 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 974, not finding an opportunity to get ahead of the decisive Lithuania. The third race in the 500 in blue, Arianna Valcepina exceeds the first heat of the repechage, but does not go beyond the semi-finals (where he comes second), eliminated only by & rsquo; American Jessica Smith.
In contingent blue & Outdoors, Cup debut in Salt Lake City, comes patt & rsquo; other fortified one Yuri Confortola appeared in good condition: & rsquo; blue is an encouraging third place in the Final B. Even on Sunday, & egrave; So he was the & rsquo; only Italian to have scored the & rsquo; direct access to the quarterfinals of the 1000 (second series of stage). It was close to the & rsquo; s access to Final A, fighting for a thrilling semi-final. Authoritative the path of the 28-year old in Bormio. For the quarter-finals if the & rsquo; was seen with the & rsquo; s former Junior World Champion (2011) Seo Yi Ra, the Russian Vladimir Grigorev (Olympic silver medalist over the distance, Sochi 2014) and the USA's Ryan Pivirotto. Advanced thanks to its excellent tactical work, because & eacute; do not be intimidated by & rsquo; evolution of the race. And while undergoing overtaking Seo on the second lap, with Pivirotto shot in front of everyone at the start, is the qualification d & rsquo; s experience. Confortola tries before winning the starting d & rsquo; s set & rsquo; s final corner. Do it, passing the & rsquo; American & Outdoors; internal. Overtaking him the runner-up Korean and a well-deserved semi-final.
Once in the semifinals, Yuri stationed in fourth place for much of the race. For -4 laps to go, the brawl in front of him & egrave; between Charles Hamelin and Seo Yi Ra, leads the first to blatantly wrong. L & rsquo; blue & egrave; cos & igrave; Third, when the Korean accelerates in an important way: the British Jack Whelbourne remains in contact with him while Confortola loses & rsquo; decisive moment. Can not keep up and closes the third out of the Final A & igrave so; as another excellent eliminated, Hamelin.
The victory of the & rsquo; s second gold in the 1,000 meters on the track played Utah & egrave; then went right to Seo Yi Ra, before the two Russian Elistratov and Zakharov.
They had stopped the repechage glia two other Italian Davide Viscardi (22nd overall) and Nicola Rodigari (23rd). Both had come to the decisive semi-final morning to get back into the main access to the quarterfinals. But the two blue ritrovatisi in the same semi-final, they are both eliminated. They come third (Rodigari) and fourth (Viscardi) and passes the turn only Lee Jung-Su (Korea).
In the first final played at the male, the & rsquo; s golden race of the 500m men's & nbsp; went, surprisingly, to the nineteen year old American John-Henry Krueger & ndash; the first individual victory in the Cup - in front of the & rsquo; Dutch Sjinkie Knegt. But there & rsquo; & egrave; a big loser Victor An. The Korean vying with Russia was disqualified by the judges after crossing the finish line first. To convict him in touch with the Chinese Wu Dajing (bronze).
The other Italians came out of the game prematurely, since the repechage of the morning. Maximum Gurini (34th) and Tommaso Dotti (36th) end up in the batteries out of the repechage. While the shift comes on duty for Andrea Cassinelli. The Turin to ograve & ;, is eliminated in the quarter-finals the following year, where they pass the Canadian B & eacute; langer-Marceau and the Kazakh Azhgalyiev. Shut & agrave; thirty-first.
Shim Suk-hee, Kim Alang Val & eacute; rie Maltais. South Korea dominates Final drive of the second set of the women's 1,000 meters, with a splendid double. The two Asian bissano the goals achieved in the 1500 yesterday, when bronze & ndash; instead of a Canadian - was the Fountain. Only one & rsquo; s Italian & Outdoors, work in the afternoon of the second round of the 1000 women.
After directly accessed in the quarter, Lucia Peretti (13th in the final standings) stops early in the stroke. L & rsquo; & egrave is blue; found in very difficult quarter with Kim Alang, Val & eacute; rie Maltais and China's Guo Yihan. In the early laps remained in third place, trying to make the race on the Chinese Guo (second for most of the race). But then subject to the passing of Maltais in 1 turn. Close, eliminated in fourth place (1 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 175) of his series, won by Kim Alang in front of the Canadian Maltais.
Unfortunately for Federica Tombolato. The most & ugrave; young blue patrol finally leaves the stage in the first heat of the repechage of the second series of the 1000 meters, so & igrave; accadutole as in the first series on Saturday. Ylenia Tota, however was not able to access the back of the board, because & eacute; disqualified in the preliminaries.
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