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Everything & egrave; ready on the & nbsp ice; Mokdong Ice Rink & nbsp; - in coperina - & nbsp; Seoul & nbsp; (South Korea), where in a few hours it will open & agrave; & nbsp; the & rsquo; last act & nbsp; of the international season. By & nbsp; tomorrow & nbsp; & ndash; Friday & igrave; March 11 & ndash; Sunday 13, the best skaters of & nbsp; short track & nbsp; will compete in the traditional appointment that say & agrave; an end for the & rsquo; year 2105-2016: the & nbsp; World Championships.
Thursday 10 March 2016 11 minutes reading time
Thus it closes in South Korea, the nation's leading short track, which holds the all-time win record & ndash; 100 well in total between men and women - in the history of the World Championship event. If the tradition of winning athletes in Korean house & egrave; well rooted, the Asian nation will be & agrave; host the World Cup for the third time, while the Seoul Capital & egrave; a completely new venue for the event in question. Earlier today, in fact, the World Cup had played in the East only in 2001 & ndash; in the city & agrave; Jeonju & ndash; and in 2008 in Gangneung.
The show and l & rsquo; typical of the challenges adrenaline Short Track will start from tomorrow, when the 129 skaters and skaters from 35 different ice Federations will start to compete in the 500 Battery, 1000 and 1500 meters individual. The three distances will award the world titles and & ndash; combined with the Super Final with the best eight in the rankings after the first three rounds & ndash; will help to allocate the necessary points for the winner and the winner of the & rsquo; coveted gold overall. Moreover, as usual, shut & agrave; The worldwide program the race for the relay events where the best eight teams & ndash; Qualified according to the ranking of the World Cup ISU 2015/16 & ndash; try the & rsquo; gold. L & rsquo; Italy of c.t. Kenan Gouadec has qualified both its teams to groped l & rsquo; assault on the podium.
Just by the couriers & ndash; men will race the 5000 meters, while the female colleagues on the 3000 & ndash; are the best weapons in the blue key. Women lift up and strengthened by the return to competition of Arianna Fontana star, is coming off two consecutive victories obtained in World Cup stages of Dresden and Dordrecht and seem at the time one of the pi & ugrave teams; credited to challenge the champions and outgoing vicecampionesse of Korea and China. A year ago, in fact, Fontana, Peretti, Viviani and Valcepina won a wonderful bronze medal. Groped to taste the rainbow joy, again, it does not seem a & rsquo; cos & Company igrave; prohibitive. Of course the variable-giving Fountain & agrave; certainly the thrust pi & ugrave; the girls to Gouadec. The Valtellina arrow that a year ago in Moscow conquered memorize options a historic overall silver joined the many historical two bronze medals on 500 and 1000 meters, sealed from & rsquo; gold in 1500, not & egrave; enrolled in the individual competition. The two seats reserved for women are blue Ariadne Valcepina and Lucia Peretti, both at & rsquo; debut in the Championship in quality & agrave; of & ldquo; & rdquo ;. individual
As for the fight for the overall title at the women, it is expected an encore of the reigning champion in Moscow in 2015, South Korea's Choi Minjeong class in 1998. Quest & rsquo; last dominated the current World Cup, winning the titles of specialty & agrave; in 1000 and 1500. The most & ugrave rivals; accredited in not concede two goals in 2016 are also countryman Shim Suk-hee, gi & agrave; gold in Montr & eacute; to 2014, the Canadian Marianne St-Gelais & ndash; Queen of the 500 in the cup, but never on the podium & ldquo; General & rdquo; World Champion & ndash; Val & eacute; rie Maltais & ndash; silver and bronze overall in 2012 and 2014 & ndash ;, British champion d & rsquo; Elise Christie Europe and China specializing in speed & agrave; Fan Kexin.
Male, starting from the situation of & rsquo; Italy, c & rsquo; & egrave; to report the defection heavy Yuri Confortola, forced to withdraw because of & rsquo; an injury which occurred two weeks ago in the pre-World gathering of Courmayeur. For the 29 year-old top athlete of the national team & egrave; came the fracture of tibia and fibula that will force & agrave; to a long recovery. The relay loses cos & igrave; a cornerstone to try the climb to a podium in the season was achieved in the stage of the Cup held in Shanghai last December. Both will also be key players for the team competition, where they will be joined by Mark Giordano, Nicola Rodigari and Andrew Cassinelli. The podium & ndash; a year ago the Blues not even managed to center the pass iridescent & ndash; It seems difficult to achieve, but the blue team & egrave; Free surprise and definitely possesses an amalgam that few other teams can bring.
Nell & rsquo; individual will touch & agrave; So Thomas Dotti and Davide Viscardi fight for the overall. The first, class of 1993, & egrave; fifth World starring in the individual competition. His best finish & egrave; 26 & deg; place finish a year ago. Viscardi & egrave; Instead all & rsquo; onset.
As for the rest of the world, Seoul 2016 will not see & agrave; at the start of the reigning Sjinkie Knegt. L & rsquo; the Netherlands has paid the forced stop after crashing suffered in the World Cup in the sixth and final stage of the season. The successor dell & rsquo; oranje arriver & agrave; probably from a list of agguerritissimi competitors. In pole position c & rsquo; & egrave; Canada's Charles Hamelin, still looking for his first overall title after two silvers and three bronzes gi & agrave; won in his career. Will have & agrave; see themselves from the competition license plate Park Se-Yeong (Korea) and Wu Dajing (China), second and third respectively in 2015, and from & rsquo; another South Korean outsider Kwak Yoon-Gy. Pi & ugrave; back in hierarchies seem to be Jingnan Shi (China), Liu Shaolin Sandor (Hungary), Samuel Girard (Canada), Artem Kozlov and Dmitry Migunov (Russia). However it is expected a balanced fight.
The list of the ten blue skaters summoned by Kenan Gouadec for the World Cup starts tomorrow: Davide Viscardi (Agor & agrave; Skating Team Milan), Nicola Rodigari (GS Forestale Roma), Thomas Dotti (GS Fiamme Oro Moena), Andrea Cassinelli (Sprinters Ice Torino ), Mark Giordano (Bormio Ice), Lucia Peretti (CS Army Courmayeur), Arianna Fontana (GS Yellow Flames Predazzo), Arianna Valcepina (GS Yellow Flames Predazzo), Elena Viviani (GS Yellow Flames Predazzo) and Cecilia Maffei (GS Fiamme Azzurre Rome).
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