Short Track Speed ​​Skating - World Cup in Salt Lake City
Francesco A. Armillotta
L & rsquo; waiting for the World Cup & egrave; over, finally talk about shoes high ropes short of the runway. The & nbsp; Utah Olympic Oval & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp Salt Lake City, has finally hosted the first session of the races of the new season of & nbsp; short track. In the & nbsp; first day & nbsp; racing in the United States dedicated exclusively to the & nbsp; batteries and the qualifying round & nbsp; for all distances in the program (four each for men and women, more & ugrave, the two runners), came some satisfaction combined with results a bit & rsquo; less encouraging, but that does not preclude space & Outdoors; optimism. View the new entries in the team, and some return, operated by coach & nbsp; Kenan Gouadec. For now, they are & nbsp; four & nbsp; & nbsp; blue & nbsp; Qualified to & nbsp; & nbsp quarter-finals, semi-finals and in the individual events, while the rest of the patrol will & agrave; forced to & nbsp; repechage. Among the first show he's still hungry and have not missed the & rsquo; s attitude to race high-level skaters who are more blue & ugrave; fast. In fact, & nbsp; Arianna Fontana & nbsp; and & nbsp; Yuri Confortola & nbsp; have not at all disappointed two of the pi & ugrave; experienced and successful Italian short track skaters.
Saturday 8 November 2014 17 minutes reading time
Both have qualified for the next rounds finding the path less related races & ndash; Arianna semifinals in the 1500 and fourth in the 500 & ndash; while you Confortola & egrave; earned a double pass of the day. It will be & agrave; at the start of the 1500 semi-finals and the quarter of the second round of the 1000 meters in which he competed: for he begins with a clear round. Advance and are already & agrave; assured of a place among the best of their distances, even Tommaso Dotti (always in the semifinals on 1500) and Lucia Peretti (quarter-finals in the second round of the 1000 women).
Well even the male and female runners. Both will play their chances of a medal in the semifinals scheduled for tonight, at the close of the program. A common thread has run the batteries for both quartets blue: France. Just Bleus, who were led - until last month, when he abandoned the & rsquo; s job to disagreements with the Federazione- from & rsquo; s former coach of Italian B & eacute; dard, it & egrave; found to cross with our shoes and our standard bearer. In both cases, the & rsquo; Italian finished ahead.
Women (Fontana, A. Valcepina, Peretti and Viviani) have had no problems, easily controlling the second & ndash; indeed valid for the qualification & ndash; in their battery. He won Canada. While third & ndash; fished perch & eacute; with time & more ugrave; fast & ndash; concluded France. L & rsquo; s aim was to get the blue in the semifinals by taking the least possible risk: mission accomplished fully.
Pi & ugrave; fought the challenge of the male quartet. The relay consists of Rodigari, Confortola Viscardi and Dotti, had most of their booby France. And finished second behind the United States & ndash; Olympic silver in Sochi, but with none of the quartet to medal in Russia - and in front of the French. This time, the & rsquo; s aim was mandatory: the conclusion of the first two & ndash; there & rsquo; s were repechage & ndash; and cos & igrave; & Egrave; state.
The 1,500-meter women have marked the & rsquo; s official debut & rsquo; athlete & more ugrave; medalist in short track blue: Arianna Fontana. The bronze medal in Sochi in 2014 he won his second battery in & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 589, flying directly in the semifinals with the Chinese Guo Yihan (behind him without the worry & rsquo; blue). Eliminate Lucia Peretti and Arianna Valcepina, both third in their respective races. Especially Peretti was actually the & rsquo; opportunities & agrave; to qualify for the quarter, as they have for & ograve; an opportunity to attack the second place, the & rsquo; Hungarian Bernadette Heidum. We will review both the rounds to get back in games this afternoon.
There will be two Italians involved in the semi-finals in the men's section (scheduled during the night). About Yuri Confortola and Tommaso Dotti. The first win control of his battery of 1500 meters. Took the lead in half & agrave; race without ever leaving her. Convincing win in 2 & rsquo; 24 & rsquo; & rsquo; 857: slower time among the victorious drum, but tempered by the fact that it was the & rsquo; last of the seven scheduled. Very well one of the most & ugrave; young, but with great potentials & agrave ;, blue men of the expedition: Dotti. The class of 1993 Milan comes second and so leads & igrave; the quarter in 2 & rsquo; 20 & rsquo; & rsquo; 126. The above only the & rsquo; Russian expert Semion Elistratov & ndash; between the & rsquo; another gold in the relay at the Olympic Games in the Russian house - (2 & rsquo; 19 & rsquo; & rsquo; 538). Nicola Rodigari, to return to the World Cup after the bad injury suffered in 2013 in Turin, does not go beyond the fourth in the battery. In what & egrave; found to be the most battery & ugrave; Fast of all, precede the strong Korean Sin Since Woon & ndash; winner at 2 & rsquo; 15 & rsquo; & rsquo; net - the Japanese Yokoyama, Kazakh and Canadian Zhumaagaziyev Girard. Prover & agrave; to redeem himself in the repechage.
In 500 women, Arianna Fontana reads the same script winning sported in the distance pi & ugrave; long and brilliantly passed all two batteries. The 24-year old Valtellina won his second race with his usual authority & agrave ;, beating rivals with a time of 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 856, & more ugrave fifth trial; fast d & rsquo; s access to the quarterfinals. Unfortunately for Elena Viviani, who after passing the preliminaries finished fourth in its battery & ndash; the pi & ugrave; fastest among the five total & ndash; preceded by St-Gelais, Maliszewska and Pierron, all qualified. The 22 year old suffered the Isolaccia & rsquo; s attack in just the past two & rsquo; s last tour and & egrave; forced the repechage this afternoon. Out of action for now, Arianna Valcepina, fourth in the preliminaries having been in full swing for more than half & agrave; of five rounds. She, too, there riprover & agrave ;.
The same distance between people, out in the preliminaries all three representatives Blues: Andrea Cassinelli, Massimo Dotti Gurini and Thomas, who conclude their evidence all third. They advanced, in fact, only the top two finishers. You will be able to redo in the repechage, which will award the winners among those who manage to qualify to the semi-finals.
Only next round total (but with next elimination, in the first of two series of 1,000 meters for women. Elena Viviani passes the first qualifying round (second behind the Chinese Choi), but & egrave; forced to surrender more and Marianne St-Gelais & ndash; before the battery more & ugrave, fastest among the five Overall in front of Jessica Smith (USA) and Lin Yue (China). Here too, the Olympic bronze medalist and world relay finished in fourth place, not far from the qualification: slightly more & ugrave; three-tenths. The preliminaries had marked the & rsquo; s debut ever in the World Cup for Federica Tombolato, eliminating & ndash; fourth in the trial won by Lithuanian Agne Serekaite. Ylenia Tota, however, had come third in his preliminary stop by & rsquo; American Ralston and from & rsquo; Hungarian Keszler.
Second series & more ugrave; Lucky for the Italian colors. Perch & eacute; Three blue at the start, Lucia Peretti is guaranteed a place in the quarter-final on Sunday. The almost 24 year old & ndash; Compir & agrave; years November 14 - Sondalo exceeds preliminary and batteries. In the second test, comes third behind the phenomenon of the US and Korean Kim Alang Chen. But by the time she was awarded honors & ndash; 1 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 626 - which earned third place and the & rsquo; inclusion among the best third with the penultimate time available. There riprover & agrave; Federica Tombolato (fourth in his preliminary), while Ylenia Tota not potr & agrave; Since access to the repechage & eacute; disqualified by the judges in his qualifying round.
First round of the 1000 men's avarissima of satisfaction for the Italians. On the ice with all three pi & ugrave; young team, do not get no passing from the preliminary round. Andrea Cassinelli fight, but finished fourth in his race & ndash; won by six-time Olympic champion Victor An. L & rsquo; Gurini Maximum absolute newcomer can not compete for the qualification and & egrave; preceded by Bykanov, Saito & ndash; qualified for the batteries later - and Shoebridge. Nothing to be done for David Viscardi, also a & rsquo; he finished fourth in the preliminary. However, all three will be on the ice to face the repechage in the afternoon.
In the second series comes the & rsquo; s only full joy for the blue team. It comes once again from Yuri Confortola. The 28-year veteran of the national team ensures the quarter-finals, winning his drum & ndash; 1 & rsquo; 26 '' & rsquo; 833 -. A fairly frantic race that saw the disqualification to the US and the Kruger & rsquo; Zakharov of the Russian advance. In any case, Confortola centers the second step after the turn of & rsquo; s excellent performance achieved in 1500. It ends with the batteries running the other two blue involved in the 1000 meters, Nicola and David Rodigari Viscardi. Both forward with the third fastest time in the preliminaries, are forced to give way to Chen Dequan, respectively, and Kei Saito (the battery Rodigari, where he finished fourth). Viscardi close third behind the & rsquo; Olympic silver medalist over the distance, the Russian Vladimir Grigorev, and the Canadian Guillaume Bastille. We will review the two blue & Outdoors, work on Sundays, repechage.
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This is the program of the second day of competition, with timetables Italian and blues in the night race. In addition, we assign the first four medals seasonal (1500m Final A of men and women and the first series of 1000m, men and women)
From 18 hours of battery repechage of the first series of the 1000 male and female, & more ugrave; and Coach (Tombolato, Viviani and Tota) (Viscardi, Gurini and Cassinelli) From 19:59 hours Batteries repechage 1500 male and female (A. Peretti and Valcepina) (Rodigari) Hours 23:02 1000m women - Quarter-finals Hours 23:16 1000m men - Quarter Finals 23:58 pm 1500m women - Semifinals (Fountain) Hours 0:12 1500m men & ndash; Semi-finals & nbsp; & Nbsp; & Nbsp; & Nbsp; & Nbsp; & Nbsp; & Nbsp; (Dotti and Confortola) Hours 0:25 1000m (Series 1) women & ndash; Semifinals 0:32 pm 1000m (Series 1) men & ndash; Hours 0:54 1500m Semifinals Women & ndash; Final B 0:58 pm women's 1500m & ndash; Men's 1500m final at 1:07 pm & ndash; 1:12 pm Men's 1500m Final B & ndash; Women's 1000m final at 1:21 pm (Series 1) & ndash; Final B 1:24 pm women's 1000m (Series 1) & ndash; Men's 1000m final at 1:32 pm (Series 1) & ndash; Final B 1:36 pm 1000m men & ndash; 3000m Relay Final A women & ndash; Semifinali (Italy) 5000m relay men & ndash; Semifinals (Italy)
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