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World Cup, second leg in Holland. Valtellino still races on all distances, Martina Valcepina and Lucia Peretti to fourth in the shortest test. Female jacket with twisted and in semifinal, unfortunately out of the male. And the Koreans are scared ...
Saturday 7 October 2017 9 minutes reading time
Four days of races on a weekend that has now become very long: four rounds to be overcome (preliminaries, batteries, quarter finals, semifinals) plus the latest event for those looking for medals at a single level (except for 1500 people in Budapest and 1500 men and women right in Holland, who counted one less), without even forgetting the additional efforts with clasps, four more for those who will enter the final. In short, the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating program, which came to the second stage 2017 (always with Olympic qualification), in Dordrecht, Holland, is really fast. The reason why a leading nation such as South Korea decides, as probably a script already imposed before the start of the event, to turn its best pattiantrics into some of its trials, in order to handle the energies, to test them to the best and to preserve them to the top also and above all in view of the great homeward appointment in February, the Olympics in PyeongChang, of course.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October are the days dedicated to quarter-finals, semi-finals and Dutch ice finals for all individual distances (500m, 1000) with the 1500s going straight from the semifinals, exactly like the two staffs.
At the feminine level, all the athletes in the semifinals pass through the 1500m, with Arianna Fontana second in the eighth battery behind the oldanese Shulting, who plays 'home'; nothing to do for Lucia Peretti, third in the sixth battered by Canadian Jamie Macdonald and Dutchman Jorien ter Mors (two golds at 2014 Sochi Games, but in long run speed skating: 1500m and team tracking). Outside also Arianna Valcepina, sixth (on seven) in his drum. Returning to Arianna, the blue champion of Berbenno di Valtellina, looking at the penultimate act, is placed in the third semifinal where he will find, among other things, the favorite Korean Choi Ming Jeong, dominant of the stage of Budapest, and Canadian Valerie Maltais, ten medals iridescent (no gold) and Olympic silver in relay in Russia.
The 500m, always at the women's side, will be the final quarter-finals, all three of the blue ones entered in the race: Martina Valcepina wins the respective batteries in the first two rounds but the quarters will find Elise Christie, the gold-lined all around "Last World in Rotterdam, and Fan Kexin, the Chinese legend winner of 10 world championships (five of which are just over 500m, the last three consecutive), but never, incredibly, an Olympic ... Perhaps not yet at the top of the form . Maybe ... Shim Suk Hee, third on the distance to Budapest behind Fontana and Choi, takes a break and leaves the scene to his companions, Choi (who will not compete instead on 1000m) and Kim Je Yin, both in the semifinals, while Kim A Lang (gold medalist in Sochi 2014) is eilmiinata in the second round. Peretti, in the third semifinal, will find Boutin and Kim Ye Jin, Fonanta will be measured with Choi and Macdonald, among others. An intriguing program not to be missed on the shortest distance. At the end, Arianna wins his batteries in the first two rounds; eliminated Viviani in the preliminaries, disqualified Peretti in the second round (which had initially passed). In the quarters, Fountain against Fan Kexin and Maltais, at the last drum. In addition to Shim Suk-Hee, beware of South Korea's other 16-year-old Lee You Bin (still junior category B for the 2017-2018 vintage), last January world gold jr. all around Innsbruck as well as first on 500m and 1000m.
Different speech for blue guys, though in some ways improves the score in the individual compared to last week in Budapest. Italy brings in the quarters of the 1000 athletes: Cassinelli and Dotti, who earn the pass (the second with some shiver: third in battery and qualify with the fourth replay time) for the next round. Confortola, who had centered on access to Hungary, this time exceeds the preliminary, but then stops in battery.
Team Leader: In the women's competition Italy eliminates the ticket for the semi-finals by obtaining important points in the Olympic qualification key; Arianna Fontana, Cecilia Maffei, Lucia Peretti and Martina Valcepina close to third place, close to China and the Netherlands, and are among the best ranked third. In the semifinal will serve something more against South Korea, Canada and Germany. A completely different speech for men, who fail for the second time in a row with the semifinals. The Azzurri (Andrea Cassinelli, Tommaso Dotti, Yuri Confortola and Nicola Rodigari) were disqualified in the quarter finals after a contact with Belgium, who then gained access to the semifinals by the jury. Sin, a tough blow for the blue team in PyeongChang 2018 optics.
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This is the schedule of tomorrow and Sunday:
Saturday, October 7, from 13.30: Semifinals and finals 1500 / quarter finals, semi-finals and finals 500 / semifinal staffs
Sunday 8th October, from 12.40: quarter finals, semifinals and finals 1000 / finals staffs
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