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After nearly two months off the & nbsp; World Cup ISU & nbsp; & nbsp lands in; Europe & nbsp; for the penultimate shot before the conclusion. The big & nbsp; & nbsp short track; therefore makes a stop in & nbsp; & nbsp Dresden, (Germany), in one of the traditionally most slopes & ugrave; related to the World Cup, at least among those in the old continent. The three days will supply German & agrave; l & rsquo; opportunity to & nbsp; to finally revise & rsquo; work & nbsp; & ndash; after nearly a year off from competition & ndash; the blue star players & nbsp; Arianna Fontana.
Thursday 4 February 2016 11 minutes reading time
From tomorrow & ndash; Friday & igrave; February 5 & ndash; & nbsp; until Sunday 7, the big names of the short runway will compete during the & nbsp; fifth of six events & nbsp; in the 2015-2016 calendar. & Nbsp; In a weekend that, unfortunately, Know yourself & agrave; also & nbsp; some important defections among international champions.
The talk-Cup were still outstanding from Shanghai when, last December, the Korean Shim Suk-hee and Choi Minjeong had dominated the scene and the finals on the double appointment of the 1,500 meters for women, leaving the world record holder Fan Kexin ( 500 meters) and the Canadian Val & eacute; rie Maltais (1000 meters), the other two successes. Male, however, China had launched its highlights: from Wu Dajing in 500, to the talent & ndash; consacratosi a week ago with the victory in the World Junior & ndash; Ren Ziwei, gold in the second series of the 1,500 non-parties both for Germany. Kwak Yoon-Gy (1000) and Charles Hamelin (1500 first series) had completed the list of victorious on & rsquo; Chinese oval.
Among the victorious in & rsquo; last weekend of Cup, for there will not memorize options ;, & agrave; Charles Hamelin. The 31 year old Canadian who won four individual races & ndash; one for each previous stage in this & ndash; He has given package to the two European closure commitments. The three-time Olympian in his career decided to exclusively prepare for the next World Championships & ndash; 11-13 March 2016 & ndash; remaining to train in Canada for groped l & rsquo; assault on a overall title that has never won in his career, despite two silvers and three bronzes. The same goes for his compatriot Samuel Girard. Even China has brought to Europe a restructured team, devoid of its & ldquo; & rdquo ;: bigwig starting with the speed specialists & agrave; Fan Kexin and Wu Dajing, respectively classification leader of specialty & agrave; about 500 meters to Jingnan Shi and Han Tianyu, the other Chinese only ones capable of getting on individual podiums in the current season.
European teams like Great Britain & ndash; attention to Elise Christie and Charlotte Gilmartin & ndash; will or almost as & eacute; complete: we await confirmation from the champion and vice-champion d & rsquo; Europe. The Koreans, however, they decided to bring in Dresden their best skaters in both male and female. The same goes for Russia led by European Champion overall 2016 semion elistratov and women of Canada guided by Marianne St-Gelais.
The news to memorize options & Egrave; still a & rsquo; other. All & rsquo; EnergieVerbund Arena in Dresden, you rivedr & agrave; in action on skates with long blades absolute star Arianna Fontana (pictured on the cover, the 'last year on the same ice in the final of the 500 meters won). The 25 year old from Valtellina, three times medalist at the last Olympics and the same & ndash; complete with overall silver & ndash; the World Cup in 2015, will return & agrave; to racing after nearly 11 months of absence. L & rsquo; last time, in fact, had the course in Moscow, in a & rsquo; d & rsquo edition; silver & ndash; for him & ndash; the championship Championships. Since then, the Polaggia arrow & egrave; took a break from & rsquo; agonism. Pause terminer & agrave; officially around & nbsp; at 16 tomorrow, when the Financial plurititolata on the ice will be & agrave; at the start of the preliminaries of the 500 meter & ndash; on which & egrave; Olympic and world silver bronze in office -, only individual distance at which the & rsquo; & egrave is blue; enrolled.
Therefore falls within a very precious piece in & rsquo; the organic c.t. dell & rsquo; Italy Kenan Gouadec that prover & agrave; to be close to his boys and girls & ndash; in addition to the Fontana he has summoned 12 others blue, engaged in individual races and relay races & ndash; with a flourish in the last two races of the Cup between Dresden and Dordrecht (Netherlands).
About team races, the women of the relay are matched with Holland and affordable Belarus and Ukraine and will try the next round ahead of the next quarter-finals scheduled in the late afternoon of the same Friday & igrave ;. The blue, fresh of the bronze medal at European Championships in Sochi, will cos & igrave; also count on falling Fontana. And they have the task of defending the & rsquo; eighth place in the ranking of the Cup season, which would allow them to access the next World Championships in Seoul in March. Same thing & ndash; As a placement to detach the pass iridescent & ndash; for the men. Nell & rsquo; last match of the World Cup, in Shanghai, the Italian quartet has regained the podium after five years d & rsquo; absence with a magic second place. Now, Confortola and companions will first think of the passage of the first qualifying round & ndash; They are inserted with Bulgaria, Belarus and the Olympic champions of Russia & ndash; that Prime Minister & agrave; the first two to & rsquo; arriving teams. At the time, Italians are on the 6 & deg; place in the overall ranking and have a good advantage & ndash; more than 3,000 points - on the ninth team, Britain.
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Here, the content, timing and Italians in the race on the first day (dedicated exclusively to the preliminary rounds) of the World Cup in Dresden:
10:05 Preliminaries 1000m men (Dotti, Cassinelli and Viscardi) 11:00 Batteries female 1500m (Tombolato and Peretti) Hours 11:25 Batteries male 1500m (Confortola and Rodigari) 12:10 Batteries 1000m women (Viviani, Maffei and Valcepina) hours 12:36 Batteries 1000m male 13:30 Preliminaries women's 500m (Fontana, Valcepina and Viviani) hours 13:51 Preliminaries men's 500m (Cassinelli and Rodigari) hours 14:35 Batteries Second Series women's 1500m (Maffei, Peretti and Tombolato ) hours 15:01 Batteries Second Series men's 1500m (Viscardi, Dotti and Confortola) hours 15:46 hours 15:58 Batteries Batteries women's 500m men's 500m Time 16:37 Batteries 3000m relay women (Italy) hours 17:27 Batteries 5000m relay men (Italy) hours 18:36 Quarter-finals women's 3000m relay hours 18:59 Quarter-finals men's 5000m relay
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