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On the last day of the second World Cup stage, South Korea is unbeatable for women on the longest distances, while the most anticipated '' tulip '' champion sends the home audience to the table. Arianna Fontana out in quarters on the 1000m, Andrea gives the Italian first season's semi-finals in the circuit. It resumes in November between Shanghai and Seoul, the last two appointments.
Sunday 8 October 2017 6 minutes reading time
A hot and competent public at last had what he was looking for: the triumph of a homeowner with no name, but Sjinkie Knegt, the most awaited athlete, the overall champion champion in Moscow 2015 (as well as Olympic bronze in charge on 1000m), triumphant in his favorite distance.
The second leg of the Audi Isu World Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating comes alongside with some of the already well-known sensations: at the male level, with South Korea qualitatively and quantitatively at the top, the games are open and the competition is tremendous, with Canada, Holland, Hungary (especially), but also China, the United States and Russia (waiting to get back to the top Victor An in the race, but probably not yet at the top of the form) is far from being underestimated. At the female level, the South Koreans of Shim, Lee and Choi seem to close each speech (even in PyeongChang's optics, but it is still early and then this sport is subject to numerous variables ...) at 1000 and 1500m, while the shortest distance, with the departure always fundamental and even more, sees possibilities intact also for China, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands.
The blue team in particular leaves Dordrecht with a completely rediscovered Martina Valpceina (his 500m semi-finals leave very well for the upcoming World Cup stages, in the end he finished third, eighth overall podium in the Cup, first after five years and half), while Arianna Fontana remains competitive at all distances, but in Holland has probably paid the tiredness of so many close-ups at the time of ... harvest. Cassinelli, thanks to a rewind, has at least reported the men's Italy in a semi-finals at World Cup 2017 level, but unlike female ladies (mostly over 500m), blue guys, even in trouble, do not seem to currently able to compete with the world elite. In any case, any other talk will be postponed to the next two stages of the circuit, scheduled for Shanghai, China, November 9-12, and Seoul (South Korea), (16-19 November).
GARE - On 1000m women Arianna Fontana, the only blue able to get to the quarters, has fallen in love with the fatigue in his battery, dominated by Canadian Valerie Maltais. Until the last act to impress more was the junior champion. all around, the 16-year-old Korean Lee Yu Bin, who in the semifinals set Shulting and Maltais with impressive acceleration outside of the penultimate lap after having checked the first rounds as by ... Korean school. In the final, however, with van Kerkhof, Shulting and Shim Suk-Hee, the teenager did not have any more and only saw the winner in the carriage of his teammate at the first seasonal success (27th overall) in the World Cup.
To the male, Dutch triumph as Knegt said (fifth win for him in the circuit) great in the last act to overcome, always inside, before the champion iridato all around Seo and then Girard between the penultimate and last lap to enjoy in the mood of the applause of the public friend. Quarterfinal fatal to Tommaso Dotti, penultimate in a tremendous battery with Knegt, Hamelin, Liu and Wu, while Cassinelli, initially fourth, was shot down for the illusion of Japanese Yoshinaga, punished by the jury but then finished fifth in the first semi-finals . Women's headset won by China on South Korea, Canada and Holland, the male still in Canada, ahead of Holland, China, Japan and Russia.
Curtain. Appointment in Asia in November.
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