Short Track - Europeans in Dordrecht
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Everything & egrave; ready for the 19th edition of & nbsp; the European Championships in short track. The event will have & agrave; place for the fourth time in the Netherlands and, surprisingly, sar & agrave; the & ldquo; First & rdquo; as CITY host for & nbsp; Dordrecht, one of the Dutch strong sporting tradition. It will treat & agrave; a European debut & ndash; albeit gi & agrave; headquarters of the World Cup in 2012 - ice of & nbsp; Sportboulevard, plant considered a temple in the land of the ice rink. & nbsp;
Thursday 22 January 2015 14 minutes reading time
Two absolute favorites for the event starts tomorrow that will end & agrave; Sunday 25. In the male, in pole position c & rsquo; & egrave; the & ldquo; Russian-Korean & rdquo; & nbsp; Victor An, while among women & egrave; l & rsquo; blue & nbsp; & nbsp Arianna Fontana, starting with the underdogs compared to rivals.
Missing a few hours and then we will know more & ugrave ;. Cos & Igrave; find out if the predictions are confirmed. For the first time the opening day of races (three in total, from Friday & Igrave; 23 to Sunday, January 25), sar & agrave; dedicated solely to the qualifications with batteries and preliminary. It will begin & agrave; with the three distances & ldquo; classic & rdquo; starting from 1500, continuing with 500 and 1000 meters individual. Then, follow the qualifications of the relay. Saturday, we will see the finals of 1500 and 500 & ndash; always for women and men & ndash; and the semi-finals of the team events, to close Sunday 25. On the final day will be assigned individual titles of 1000 and it will define & agrave; the grid of the first eight finishers & ndash; data from the sum of the points of 500, 1000 and 1500 - admitted to Super Final 3000 meters. Or l & rsquo; last test individual sar & agrave; presumably decisive for the purpose of & rsquo; allocating licenses general assigned to those totalizzer & agrave; pi & ugrave; points in the four individual distances. AFTER THAT & eacute; will close & agrave; with the finals of the relays. This & egrave; the program very intense three days of Dutch.
Spotlight for 56 women from 19 different countries. In particular, & ograve ;, l & rsquo; attention sar & agrave; all directed to an arrow Italian known throughout the world. And, in Europe, its five continental titles shouts say a lot about the expectations for Arianna Fontana (in the cover photo in action in Dresden 2014), always on the podium female & ldquo; Overall & rdquo; from 2007 to 2014. And since & egrave; fasting for two seasons, c & rsquo; & egrave; in her a great desire to return to the throne Continental in a season that will enter & agrave; really live in right in 2015 (with the Europeans, the next two stages of the World Cup and especially the World Cup). L & rsquo; last year & ndash; in full gear d & rsquo; approach for the Games in Sochi - the Fountain had to & ldquo; please & rdquo; Bronze overall and of & rsquo; gold in the 500 meters. Because a rarity & agrave ;, & eacute; the Valtellina promptly won the title since 2011. What was going on & ndash; excluding vintages Olympic & ndash; from 2008 onwards. This can & ograve; be l & rsquo; right opportunity to test his condition appeared excellent in autumn during which he hit four podiums & ndash; including a hit on the 500 & ndash; Cup. Then, the temporary stop from racing in December, the period spent in the United States and the return & ndash; gi & agrave; persuasive & ndash; Absolute Championships in Turin in early January. In short, the 24 year old Polaggia still has much to say to the short track.
Returning from a year ago in Dresden (Germany) triumphed & ograve; Jorien ter Mors, Dutch quest & rsquo; year & egrave; taking a break from & rsquo; agonism, after trying in vain to start preparation in half & agrave; between long and short track. Absent twice d & rsquo; gold in Sochi 2014 & ndash; but in skating that we run on ovals of 400 meters - l & rsquo; half of the blue three times medalist at the last Winter Olympics, undoubtedly becomes Elise Christie. The British were in fact silver in Dresden in 2014, but quest & rsquo; year did not impress at all in the World Cup, unlike Fontana. In any case, the Scottish & egrave; l & rsquo; only other European in the top 10 of the overall rankings Cup 2014-15. In front of her, but with fewer stages played c & rsquo; & egrave; precisely the Valtellina, the single European Cup winning. For this l & rsquo; blue part with gallons mandatory favored.
Behind them c & rsquo; & egrave; very balanced. Russian and Dutch seem to have the necessary condition to play for a place on the podium. L & rsquo; oranje Yara van Kerkhof, eighth overall a year ago and l & rsquo; Hungarian Bernadett Heidum, fourth l & rsquo; last year and second in 2011 in Heerenveen, may be two of the pi & ugrave; strong candidate to win a place on the podium.
The other blue in action in Dordrecht will be Elena Viviani and Lucia Peretti. For the first is the second part in the competition individual & ndash; where in 2011 he was 14th & ndash; while the 24 year old had already Bormio & agrave; participated in the last edition closing twentieth. Both have to & ograve; behind heavy investments and medals in the relay. Just testing team of Italian female team sees blue as big favorites to win. The c.t. blue Kenan Gouadec convened just for this race also Federica Tombolato and Arianna Valcepina. The blue will avenge the failure of the podium in 2014, when not centrarono a medal from 2012 and the & rsquo; gold since 2006. After the Olympic and world bronze in 2014, although in 2015 a European medal & egrave; brick decisive to complete a & ldquo; Grand Slam & rdquo; deserved.
Among the 77 men enrolled from 25 different nations ce n & rsquo; & egrave; one that stands for class, sport and talent out of the ordinary. Will indeed be all hunting of & rsquo; man of two worlds: the Korean nation from 2011 Russian Victor An. The three-time Olympic champion in Sochi 2014 & egrave; also the reigning European champion in Dresden 2014. They will try to challenge the home favorites oranje Sjinkie Knegt and Freek van der Wart, gi & agrave; samples respectively in 2012 and 2013. Apart from them, for the Russian team & ograve ;, & egrave; the force to be feared most. Strong and experienced skaters like Semion Elistratov and Ruslan Zakharov, both have what it takes to go to medal in the overall standings. The speech for the podium overall seems confined to the representatives of these two national.
In the field of Italian & rsquo; & egrave special observed; especially Yuri Confortola. The 28 year old Bormio & egrave; back from a brilliant Italian Championship, won without much difficulty & agrave; thanks to a condition that if refined in recent weeks, could it point to strong quest & rsquo; European in Holland. He who in 2007 was bronze in & ldquo; General & rdquo; and & egrave; one of the skaters that pi & ugrave; times & egrave; went to the podium at the European Championships in the individual distances (six times in total). The two other Italians in the tournament will be individual Tommaso Dotti and David Viscardi. Both Milan d & rsquo; origin, both quite young & ndash; 21 years and 24 Dotti Viscardi - to increase their experience and, because & eacute; no, finally aspire to some exploits not impossible. Viscardi & egrave; the first in the individual while having pi & ugrave; sometimes took part in the relay, while Dotti & egrave; the fifth consecutive appearance. He dowry his best & ndash; we trust it will significantly improve & ndash; a 15th place both in 2012 both in & rsquo; 2013 edition.
With Confortola, Dotti and Viscardi are in Dordrecht also Rodigari Nicola and Massimo Gurini. Both will participate in the 5000 meters relay men. Confides much on & rsquo; experience and the ability & agrave; the driver of the 33-year Rodigari, 10 times champion d & rsquo; Europe in the team competition in its long and satisfying career between 1999 and 2010. The Azzurri, after a difficult start in the World Cup, are called to find the breakthrough that could change season & ndash; qualification to the World Cup in March included & ndash; and get the podium at a European could be a great encouragement. Sure, the quartets of Russia (Olympic champions) and the Netherlands (world champions outgoing) seem definitely another level than the rest of the group, but with Hungary, Great Britain and France can play for a possible & ndash; as you know, in the short track reigns l & rsquo; unpredictable, especially in the relay & nbsp; - place for medals.
Click here to follow stream competitions, live on channel & ldquo; & rdquo skating; dell & rsquo; ISU. Sar & agrave; can watch the races from 14 to Saturday 24 and Sunday, January 25th. To recognize the full program of races, you can access here to the official website of the International Federation.
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