Short Track Cabinet meeting in Shanghai
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L & rsquo; final round of the 2015 shooting in & nbsp; China & nbsp; from tomorrow, Friday & Igrave; December 11, until Sunday 13. The & nbsp; & nbsp short track; saluter & agrave; cos & Igrave; l & rsquo; year with the latest challenges in the East valicheranno half & agrave; calendar & nbsp; World Cup 2015-16, pending the & nbsp; last two stages in European lands & nbsp; & ndash; Dresden and Dordrecht & ndash; in February. Shoes whizzing ice Chinese & nbsp; Shanghai, that from December 2010 to today with his & nbsp; Oriental Sports Center & nbsp; & nbsp; Shanghai & nbsp; has always hosted the & nbsp; Cup & nbsp; without missing a season. & Nbsp;
Thursday 10 December 2015 12 minutes reading time
It begins with the preliminary rounds of the Friday & Igrave; which outline the framework of the main draws on the eight individual distances & ndash; this time the 1,500 meters will have the usual doubling of the series & ndash; and with the relay. Saturday and Sunday will be assigned the Finals.
L & rsquo; Italy's c.t. Kenan Gouadec tries to raise the & rsquo; bar of results after an initial mixed results in the early commitments, all waiting for the return of the blue star Arianna Fontana, who ritorner & agrave; in meeting with the National Courmayeur next week. From tomorrow to & ograve ;, they should seek confirmation particularly in terms of relays, since & eacute; after the first two stages (to forget), since last weekend Nagoya & egrave; the run game to try a & rsquo; desirable and difficult double qualification & ldquo; & rdquo men-women; the upcoming World Championships & ndash; They will be held in Seoul from & rsquo; 11 to 15 March - double participation missing from Montr & eacute; 2014. A difficult qualifying that Prime & agrave; the top seven teams pi & ugrave; that of the host country - Korea to male and female rientrer & agrave; most likely in the rankings, freeing the & rsquo; 8 & deg; place - in the ranking of the World Cup.
Women, currently eighth with 5305 points after the good seventh place last week, would virtually qualified. They will have to look behind, defending himself from the immediate pursuers Poland and the United States (which does not have the relay in Shanghai registered) away respectively 188 and 350 points. But men, heavily penalized by disqualification & ndash; and the resulting zero Ranked & ndash; race in Montr & eacute; al, should chase the pass. Now, after the & rsquo; eighth Nagoya & ndash; best result of the season & ndash ;, 13f are in the ranking to 3171 points. And Britain, eighth, is almost 3 thousand lengths. It would therefore be an exploit Final A to retract immediately in games quartet blue. Company really prohibitive. Tomorrow & ndash; the first light of & rsquo; sunrise in Italy - the girls are inserted in the battery with China, Japan and Bulgaria, while the men will compete one of two places that are worth the semifinals just with the British and with the & rsquo; Holland, fresh winner of the 3000 meters Nagoya.
Will be eight individual events in Shanghai and there are plenty of ideas d & rsquo; interest. In the 1000 meters race d & rsquo; opening weekend of the Chinese, will be three Italian members: Cecilia Maffei, Elena and Federica Viviani Tombolato. The leader of specialty & agrave ;, the Korean Choi Minjeong not & egrave; registered. Sar & agrave; at the start, the runners-Shim Suk-hee, winner in Montr & eacute; al (second series) and Toronto. Other favorites are the Chinese Zang Yize, the British Elise Christie and South Korea's Kim Alang, third in Nagoya.
Over the same distance to the male, however, the Russian Semen Elistratov & egrave; fresh from returning to the success of a week ago and will try & agrave; to stretch at the top of specialty & agrave; Charles Hamelin & ndash; but not according to the kilometer away & ndash; and on its direct competitors for success in Shanghai, Shi Jingnan and Han Tianyu. Spotlight on Canadian Charle Cournoyer, who took his first win in the 1000 World Cup played in Toronto. L & rsquo; Italy for the start Yuri Confortola, Tommaso Dotti and Davide Viscardi. So far, the best result in the blue distance & egrave; ninth Tommaso Dotti Nagoya: l & rsquo; objective & egrave; improve the placement.
For the first time this season & will agrave; that of 1500 meters, the distance doubled in China with two planned series. In the first the underdogs women are all about Choi Minjeong. The 17 year old South Korean has never failed & ndash; two wins from as many holdings in Cup & ndash; when & egrave; presented at the start. In the first round will try to counter it surprise d & rsquo; early in the season, which is the German Anna Seidel & ndash; bronze in Montr & eacute; to & ndash; and Marianne St-Gelais, gi & agrave; podium quest & rsquo; year over the distance, in Toronto. Two blue ice in the first series: Arianna Valcepina and Lucia Peretti, in a distance without great satisfaction quest & rsquo; year. In the second series & ndash; without Choi, Seidel and St-Gelais - sar & agrave; instead the leaders on this distance Shim Suk-hee, with the fourth in & ldquo; & rdquo general; Kim Boutin. The Italians are recognized Lucia Peretti and Cecilia Maffei.
The men's 1,500 meters (first series) will see at the start of the batteries l & rsquo; highly anticipated and galvanized Dutch Sjinkie Knegt, current leader in the specialty & agrave ;. The overall world champion in Moscow in 2015, got the Nagoya his first career success in the Cup and aims to give an encore. The challenge the Korean Park Se-Yeong and battery agguerritissimi Canadians led by the brothers Hamelin & ndash; in addition to the multi-titled Charles, pawing the & ldquo; less & rdquo; Fran & ccedil; ois announced in great shape after the bronze won over the same distance in Toronto and the first career individual victory achieved last Sunday on 500. For the & rsquo; Italy take to the track in the batteries of tomorrow Cassinelli Andrea and Nicola Rodigari. In the second series (whose final will be played on Sunday 13th), the main members are Charles Hamelin and Korean Kwak Yoon-Gy & ndash; winner of the first two tests seasonal - and Jiwon Park and Russian Elistratov. The blue line up the best skaters proved such in these first months of competition: Davide Viscardi & ndash; eighth and tenth in the last two races on the 1500 - Yuri Confortola and Tommaso Dotti.
In the 500 meters the landlady Fan Kexin tenter & agrave; the difficult task of centering the third consecutive season on the distance, after the double success of Nagoya. The 22 year-old Chinese, three times World Championship over the distance, with the favor of the logical prediction. They will try to counter it Elise Christie & ndash; second behind him in the first round of last week - Marianne St-Gelais (so far always on the podium in the 500), Anna Seidel and Choi Minjeong. Elena Viviani, Arianna Valcepina and Federica Tombolato will be the three blue chasing glory in the race on the 4 and a half turns. Until now, the best finish of a & rsquo; Italian & egrave; that obtained from Valcepina in Montr & eacute; to where he was eighth. Male, however, Fran & ccedil; ois Hamelin & ndash; second in specialty & agrave; - I will try & agrave; victory-bis after the & rsquo; & hurr agrave; in the land of Japan. The specialist in the 500, already & agrave; Olympic and world runner bicampione, Dajing Wu (China) vorr & agrave; return to the success he misses since 1 & deg; November. Attention to other two Canadians Samuel Girard and Charle Cournoyer and Russian duo composed by Dmitry Migunov and Artem Kozlov. For the & rsquo; Italy will track Cassinelli Andrea and Nicola Rodigari.
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