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The women's relay made up of Arianna Fontana, Martina Valcepina, Cynthia Mascitto and Arianna Valcepina does not pass the semifinals due to a fall of the thirty-year-old from Montreal.
Wednesday 9 February 2022 3 minutes reading time
In the 1500 meters only Yuri Confortola, recovered as the best time of the excluded in the heats that directly qualified the first three, passes the quarter-finals and in the semifinals, falls due to damage by the British Treacy, is advanced by the judges to an unprecedented final A to 10 competitors,
Pietro Sighel, third at the finish line, is penalized for a contact while Luca Spechenhauser crashes in the first laps and sadly closes his battery in last position.
In the very busy final, Confortola sprints from the last position at the head of the platoon but the opponents do not repeat the mistake that allowed him to win the World Cup. The blue is reabsorbed by the group but ends in tenth position. The gold medal goes to the Korean Hwang Daeheon ahead of the Canadian Dubois and the Russian Elistratov.
In the heats of the women's 1000 meters that will see the rest of the scoreboard on Friday, Arianna Fontana easily controls her performance by finishing in first place without problems. Goes out. instead, overtaken by the American Santos and the Hungarian Jaszapati, Cynthia Mascitto. The Canadian Kim Boutin will not be present in the quarter-finals who, easily in the lead, falls for a mistake a few meters from the finish.
Italy that comes out in the semifinals of the women's relay for a fall in the first laps of Cynthia Mascitto that cuts off the team with Arianna Fontana and Martina and Arianna Valcepina from the fight for medals. Holland, China, Canada and South Korea go to the final.
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