Short Track - CDM in Erzurum (Turkey)
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There we are. L & rsquo; last act avr & agrave; place a & nbsp; Erzurum, CITY located in & rsquo; Eastern Anatolia not far from the border with the & rsquo; Armenia, which will host & agrave; for the first time ever the & nbsp; World Cup & nbsp; & nbsp; short track. Previously, this had seen ice racing & ndash; internationally & ndash; Only hockey players committed to & rsquo; Winter Universiade of 2011 and regularly hosts matches of local teams of male and female hockey.
Thursday 12 February 2015 15 minutes reading time
So this is an unusual place for short track, in a plant, the Yenisehir Ice Arena, which holds inside pi & ugrave; 3000 spectators.
Via all & rsquo; last act, with some final verdict yet to be determined. A Erzurum remain to assign titles 2014-2015 of 1000 meters for men and women - who will come away & agrave; Running in two series - and those of the relay. For the rest, almost everything & egrave; gi & agrave; been decided in the previous stage of Dresden. About Dresden, the mind returns to the stunning victory of blue Arianna Fontana. The Valtellina & egrave; cos & Igrave; eagerly awaited in Turkey. Proved in a very good condition, vorr & agrave; best prepare for the upcoming World Championships in Moscow. Tomorrow & ndash; remember that the Friday & Igrave; sar & agrave; devoted entirely to the Preliminary and Batteries, with finals on Saturday and Sunday & ndash; take & agrave; off of 1500 and the second series of the 1000 meters (distance ever faced in Cup quest & rsquo; year).
Among the eleven blue in Turkey under the orders of Kenan Gouadec, men's relay team will be the watchlist. In contrast to female colleagues & ndash; who aspire to climb on the podium again & ndash; are desperate for a placing to win the World pass. They will chase to be among the eight who will compete in Russia in world championship races.
Because of contemporary & agrave; Universiade Granada, l & rsquo; last leg Cup will see & agrave; some major defections. However, none of them incider & agrave; on & rsquo; allocating licenses. Miss for & ograve; Kim Alang, Korean fresh winner of the 1000 in Dresden, compatriot Lee Eun-Byul, the Chinese Han Yutong and Lithuanian Agne Sereikaite. Among men stand flat rates of Asians: on all Park Se-Yeong, Chen Guang and Seo Yi Ra.
Below we try to draw a summary of the situation based on the rankings and titles gi & agrave; assigned.
Gi & agrave; appointed last weekend in Dresden, samples 2014-15 on the distance of 500 meters. Male, Russian Dmitry Migunov took the win with a final race d & rsquo; advance. The young Russian & ndash; born 1992 & ndash; took only three wins, a second and a third place for spacing permanently runner, Chinese Wu Dajing. Speech instead open to the general podium, where just the Chinese together and Korean Kwak Yoon-Gy will be played second and third place. In the race for groped l & rsquo; exploits are the three Italian Nicola Rodigari, Thomas and Andrea Dotti Cassinelli.
Female, Fan Kexin, despite being beaten all & rsquo; last exit from an extraordinary Arianna Fontana & Outdoors; EnergieVerbund Arena in Dresden, you & egrave; confirmed champion on 500 dominating for most of the season. For the race starts tomorrow, the Italian Elena Viviani, Arianna Valcepina and Federica Tombolato make up the trio of blades to the Italian way.
Exciting and poised to fight for the title in the 1000 meters. Speech that you can & ograve; transpose both male and female. In addition, Turkey will be the distance & agrave; repeated twice during the weekend. Potentially, therefore, at the disposal of the contenders there will be well-20000 points, in case of a double victory in the A Finals on Saturday and Sunday.
Sjinkie Knegt, Dutch Olympic bronze in office, & egrave; first in the overall ranking male, but he is expected to fight hard to be able to defend themselves from & rsquo; assault (gi & agrave;) sample of 1500, the Korean Sin Da Woon. The 25 year-old North European skater has not won any races in the season. His & egrave; therefore, a leadership award from constancy. The other title contenders are many and fierce. In the front row c & rsquo; & egrave; Sin is far more & ugrave; 10 thousand points Knegt. And he & egrave; l & rsquo; unique writing & ndash; cos & Igrave; as the bearer of & rsquo; Netherlands - in both distances of 1000. In addition to them, with a & rsquo; registration only, c & rsquo; & egrave; Semion Elistratov, second in rank after the & rsquo; oranje. Then, the list of others still fighting goes from last year's champion Charles Hamelin to Chinese Wu Dajing, until one of the great disappointed & ndash; just one win in November - the season as Victor An. The Russian Korean sar & agrave; only at the start of the second set with the final Sunday.
In the first series will compete Tommaso Dotti, Massimo and Andrea Gurini Cassinelli. In the second, however, will touch & agrave; Yuri Confortola, still Gurini and David Viscardi.
Female, the current leader & ndash; as well as & eacute; Champion also last season - Shim Suk-hee starts favored and could put a tombstone on the speech cup, gi & agrave; in the first series: l & rsquo; only two of which will be & agrave; at the start. His lead in the overall standings of nearly 3000 points on the Canadian Marianne St-Gelais, second, and more than 7000 on & rsquo; other Korean Choi Minjeong. The fight for the podium, and especially for the victory of specialty & agrave ;, seems confined to the two Korean, since & eacute; Canada's St-Gelais not take & agrave; part to either 1000m Erzurum (sar & agrave; at the start of 1500 and 500). Besides them sar & agrave; likely l & rsquo; adding Fan Kexin and Elise Christie (first series). These are the Italian race. In the first series space Federica Tombolato and Elena Viviani. In the second, they will go on the ice and Lucia Peretti Arianna Fontana. Quest & rsquo; last in his first race on a thousand meters Cup in 2014-15.
In 1500 women, Choi Minjeong is preparing to celebrate his first title in the Cup & Outdoors; debut in the Senior, the result of four wins on the seven races in total. The points would be enough 161 & ndash; and then a placing within the top twenty - to be sure not to be joined by her compatriot Shim, l & rsquo; only able d & rsquo; impensierirla, but that does not disputer & agrave; the race. Sar & agrave; a & rsquo; enterprise possible with rates approaching 100% for her, as the 16 year old revelation of the season. The blue in the race are three: Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti and Arianna Valcepina. Especially the bronze medal in Sochi in 2014 will & agrave; waiting to redeem after the disqualification suffered in Dresden in Final A. Penalties & agrave; who interrupted his incredible run of four podiums seasonal. Disappointment canceled by the superb victory in the 500 meters the next day.
Saturday sar & agrave; also scheduled the final of the 1500 men. Also in this case there will be no & agrave; nothing to say in key title. The Korean Sin Da Woon & egrave; gi & agrave; long been in possession of the mathematical certainty brought to him by the three seasonal victories. World champion & ldquo; overall & rdquo; 2013 will not take & agrave; Turkish part in the race, focusing on 1000, distance & ndash; as mentioned earlier & ndash; sees him still fighting. Yuri Confortola, David and Nicholas Viscardi Rodigari will try to confirm the tradition that Italians at ease on the individual distance pi & ugrave; long program. L & rsquo; time & ndash; due to absences or choices to focus on other distances as they did the first three of the rankings Da Woon Sin, Hamelin and Park Se-Yeong & ndash; could favor some upset.
Important speech about the relay. Sar & agrave; Indeed l & rsquo; & agrave last chance; groped for the qualification to the next World Cup in Moscow (March 13 to 15), the last round of the season. The qualified teams will be chosen according to the classification of the World Cup to date after the sixth and final round. Will be promoted the best eight classified. And for this we have to develop two different considerations between women and men.
Italian girls, also of strong & rsquo; silver won only a week ago, are fourth in the ranking. Gi & agrave; widely secure the place towards the championship Championships in Russia. Indeed could, with a placement also important in Turkey, aim to overcome Canada and China, third and second in the rankings behind the solid Korea. And the feelings are positive, given the state of the shape of the star Arianna Fontana and the positive signals also came from Viviani, Peretti and Valcepina.
The 5000 meters men's team, however, could be the last season for the & rsquo; Italian male. Gi & agrave ;, because & eacute; the World Cup qualifying & egrave; at great risk. The Azzurri are now ninth in the ranking to just under 1500 points from Britain eighth. To hope for a pass, the male quartet should at least to a final position in the top five national. And that, at the same time, the British end up behind them. In short, the situation & egrave; complex. But hope & egrave; still alive.
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