Short Track - Cabinet meeting in Shanghai
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In a few hours partir & agrave; officially the third leg of & nbsp; & nbsp World Cup; ISU & nbsp; & nbsp; short track. The pi & ugrave; strong skaters of short track & ndash; with some defections excellent & ndash; landed in & nbsp; & nbsp Shanghai; (China), where will compete tomorrow - Friday & Igrave; 12 - until Sunday, December 14 track of & rsquo; Oriental Sports Center & nbsp; of & pi ugrave; populous Chinese megalopolis.
Thursday 11 December 2014 14 minutes reading time
A location habitual, that of Shanghai. & Egrave; from the 2010-2011 season that & rsquo; modern facility houses consecutively racing circuit. In short, & egrave; a classic of the short runway. The track & egrave; lucky for Italians in terms of tradition. Four times upheld the color blue on the podium of the World Cup. The first in 2010 & ndash; thanks to relay women, finished third in the Cup & ndash; who responded with two new bronzes in the 2012-13 season and l & rsquo; last year. These c & rsquo; & egrave; to add to the overwhelming victory of Arianna Fontana in the 500 meters in December 2011. The same Valtellina conquered & ograve; also the world bronze in the overall standings in March 2012. Shanghai & egrave; instead been stingy with satisfaction for Italian men, never among the first in the cup n & eacute; let alone the World Cup.
Today, for ograve ;, & shipping blue is beign & agrave; without its star listed. Arianna Fontana, in fact, not & egrave; game for appointments in Asia & ndash; in a week c & rsquo; & egrave; Also l & rsquo; commitment Seoul, Korea & ndash; confirming his program that does not imply a full time all season and with workloads pi & ugrave; light and a smaller number of official games. Choosing shared and planned, although some regrets might occur, if you think that the 24 year old has found in Valtellina quest & rsquo; start to the season four podiums individual & ndash; including a win in the 500 meters in Montr & eacute; to & ndash; on as many races. A few days ago, the three times Olympic medalist in Sochi 2014 & egrave; sprint in the United States, in Salt Lake City, where he still preseguir & agrave; with workouts ahead of the return at the European Dordrecht (Netherlands) of 23-25 ​​January 2015.
In Shanghai, for & ograve ;, & agrave not fail; only the blue arrow. Absences & ldquo; heavy & rdquo; Also the team of Russia, especially in men. Miss the fact plurimedagliato Olympic Victor An, Semion Elistratov & ndash; points leader in 1000 - Vladimir Grigorev and Ruslan Zakharov. A singular level represent five podiums in the first two stages between the US and Canada. Moreover, together, the four won the Olympic title in the relay. The Russians are presented with a very young team, headed by & ograve; the surprise of November: Dmitry Migunov, leader in the ranking of specialty & agrave; about 500 meters. There will & agrave; even, the listed Canadian Val & eacute; rie Maltais. Always the Canadian team embraces the younger brother of champion Charles Hamelin & ndash; Fran & ccedil; ois & ndash; and the Olympic bronze medalist in the 500 Charles Cournoyer. Both the return.
The expedition blue brought into China by c.t. blue Kenan Gouadec & egrave; composed of 11 athletes, six men and five women. No substitute for Fontana. Cos & Igrave; as the protagonists have not changed compared to the two away games in North America in the last month. In detail, Lucia Peretti, Massimo Gurini (Bormio Ice), David Viscardi (Agor & agrave; Skating Team Milan), Yuri Confortola, Nicola Rodigari (GS Forestry Rome), Arianna Valcepina, Elena Viviani (GS Yellow Flames Predazzo), Tommaso Dotti (GS Golden Flames Moena), Federica Tombolato (AEV Sportmen DG Bolzano), Ylenia Tota and Andrea Cassinelli (Ice Team Torino).
Looking at the races in detail, including the challenges pi & ugrave; exciting plans there will & agrave; surely that & ndash; or better than, as will double & agrave; Series & ndash; l & rsquo; appointment with the 500 meters, where the hostess Fan Kexin has swept the first two tests in Salt Lake City and Montr & eacute; al. L & rsquo; the other, as we know, & egrave; was won by & rsquo; blue fountain.
Fairly balanced games for the men's 500 meters, where three trials held so far, there have been three different winners from as many continents. For now leads the ranking Russian Migunov front of John Henry Krueger (USA) and Wu Dajing (China). Missing l & rsquo; Olympian Victor An, after a start of Cup & ldquo; decidedly & rdquo; & Nbsp; - from a sample of his caliber could be expected pi & ugrave; only one success, however, in the opening - negative. We also expect a change of gear from the blues. While the Italian Arianna Valcepina and Elena Viviani may point to improve their results in Canada, in & rsquo; last test. Or the quarter-finals.
With 1000 meters women there faces in the realm of Shim Suk-Hee & ndash; two wins out of three quest & rsquo; year & ndash; and promises to be a pi & ugrave; than likely domain of Korea. Also because & eacute; behind the Olympic bronze medalist on the distance, just mentioned, pawing the young 16 year old compatriot Choi Minjeong. Attention to Kim Alang, 19 years and a infinite class: I will try & agrave; his first podium in the World Cup in the sprint distance. The Italian captained by Ylenia Tota and Lucia Peretti, Quest & rsquo; last very tarnished in Montr & eacute; and the expected redemption.
On the same distance in the men, the leader, a bit & rsquo; Surprise & egrave; Russian Semion Elistratov, starred regularity & agrave; but never with success. Not defend & agrave; its location in Shanghai and certainly competition scalpiter & agrave; for sopravanzarlo. Among these, stands l & rsquo; another great disappointed Charles Hamelin & ndash; only one podium finish in the first two stages and in search of new achievements worthy of his class. Key in Italy, not Yuri Confortola & egrave; entered for the race and not potr & agrave; groped to repeat the qualification in the semifinals & ndash; best result in the season & ndash; obtained in Salt Lake City. Space Tommaso Dotti, Nicola and David Rodigari Viscardi. The quarterfinals are l & rsquo; main objective for the three Italians.
1500 Women & ndash; final on Saturday - without Kim Alang (not recorded as Maltais and Christie), will live & agrave; challenge between Choi & Outdoors; tracking the usual Shim, currently before the distance in specialty & agrave ;. Attention to the Chinese Han Yutong, third in the standings of the cup away. Even here, Lucia Peretti meditates a ransom. The 24 year old holds in fact the best placings in their career on the distance pi & ugrave; long. Together with her, the way batteries, pi & ugrave; young Federica and Ylenia Tombolato Tota.
It provides a challenge to three to be savored in the men: watchlist Sin Da Woon, Seo Yi Ra Charles Hamelin and the American Krueger. Here, too, the greatest hopes are pinned on the blue veteran Confortola, at the start with Dotti and the & rsquo; another skater pi & ugrave; Rodigari expert.
C & rsquo; & egrave; great expectation for the Italian relay team that you play the qualification for the World Cup in Moscow (13-15 March 2015). The blues at this time would be qualified with the & rsquo; last position available. But they will look primarily from Canada, and currently blatantly out of eight magnificent. The battery for the semi-finals is not & egrave; among the pi & ugrave; easy, with the US and Kazakhstan. The Italians, however, are more & ugrave; quiet despite the & rsquo; absence of Fontana. The third-place finish in Montr & eacute; to leave a dowry a good starting points & ndash; the Italians are second in the standings specialty & agrave; - In key skills.
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The program and times of the Italian first day dedicated to batteries and preliminary. Incidentally, the Blues engaged in individual distances.
First series from 2:30 500m men & ndash; Preliminary and Batteries (Viscardi, Gurini and Cassinelli) Hours 3:08 1500m women & ndash; Batteries (Rodigari, Dotti and Confortola) Hours 3:33 1500m men - Batteries (Peretti, Tota and Tombolato) 4:27 pm First series 500m women - Preliminaries and Batteries (Valcepina and Viviani) 6:20 pm Second set 500m men - Preliminaries and Chargers (Cassinelli, Confortola and Gurini) Hours 6:58 1000m men & ndash; Preliminary and Batteries (Viscardi, Rodigari and Dotti) 7:44 pm Second set 500m women & nbsp; - Batteries (Tota, Valcepina and Tombolato) Hours 8:33 1000m women & ndash; Batteries (Peretti and Tota) Hours 9:36 3000m Relay Women & ndash; Batteries (Italy) Hours 10:12 5000m Relay men & ndash; Batteries (Italy)
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